[Carry_Okie]

It is a switch that means the potential for mass-extermination of urban centers: No sewerage treatment, no pumped water, no refrigeration, and no pumped fuel, surrounded by a "greenbelt" with no farms and no way out. There is at most two weeks worth of food here, and I'd bet on a half that. At the rate they're overpopulating mountain lions and the way they want to bring in wolves and there won't be any game either. Hell, a few dozen guys in SWAT vehicles with .50 cal could bottle up the entire San Francisco Bay Area and watch 12 million people starve to death in mass chaos.

Of course, there is a counter-strategy that would make such a gambit impossible, but nobody seems to be interested.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Really, given the short time it’s taken for them to start to close the pen gates, do you really think there was time to implement that plan?

Your book is only 2 years old. The lulling to sleep of large masses has a corollary effect in that those who were wary (your immediate audience) have been left unsure of themselves precisely because so few are listening. “Maybe it’s just me” has been the most common response. Akin to being awakened by a noise, listening intently, then rolling over and going back to sleep.

There’s no doubt about it. You’ve tried diligently, more than most, to employ your prodigious intelligence constructively and pass along you experiences hoping to counter the propaganda mills. But, with their constant pumping of somma and lies in equal measure, and them having so many outlets, how could one man do it alone?

And then there is that impatience which grabs you from time to time that repels potential listeners. It cannot be that all those who fought you here are plants: the ignorant are often sensitive to that fact. It takes a diplomatic soul to get past that reflexive defense in order to reach our better angels. Is that one of the things you’ve prayed to become better at?