Your screenname is indicative of a certain neighborhood which has had several interesting periods in its history, during which the types of collapse you pooh-pooh actually happened.
Perhaps it is time you educated yourself on the mechanisms by which the world works, as such an education would keep you from embarrassing yourself, again, among the adults in the room.
Perhaps it's time for you perennial panickers to grow out of your little fantasy world and see how the world truly works. Such an education would save you from your repeatedly incorrect prognostications of doom and gloom . . . I mean really, going through the same old routine every decade . . . one would think that eventually you guys would figure it out.
- Harry Browne with How You Can Profit from the Coming Devaluation and Don Stephens with Retreater's Bibliography as well as Robert D. Kephart with Inflation Survival Letter in the mid-60's
- Howard Ruff in the 70's with Famine and Survival in America and his best seller How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years. Don Stephens popped up again with his new and improved The Survivor's Primer & Up-dated Retreater's Bibliography. Plus all the other "survivalism" books published at that time--heck they even made a movie about it staring Robin William and Walter Mathau.
- In the 80's it was more of Howard Ruff along with Bruce Clayton Life After Doomsday. Ragnar Benson with Live Off The Land In The City And Country. "Survive" magazine and all the other survivalist movement nonsense.
- Then in the late 90's we had all the Y2K survivalist nonsense--yeah, that one turned out well--LOL!!!
- Then another resurgence post 9/11
- Now we have the great economic doom and gloom of the 2010's
Through it all--5 decades of this nonsense--the mothership still hasn't landed. You know why? Because it isn't going to land. The end times are not here. The end of civilization as we know it isn't happening.
I know it's useless to preach reason to the detached from reality, but one must at least make the attempt. After 5 decades and endless predictions from every crack pot and profiteer with a glib tongue and a slick sales pitch including Lyndon LaRouche for nearly that entire 5 decades--how many times do you have to be wrong before you figure it all out?
You want to prepare for 3 or 4 weeks of bad weather or some other natural disaster--that's reasonable and probably a good idea. You live in a fantasy world in which the world is coming to an end and it'll be you against the zombies or the ravening hoard, then you are way out on the fringe and have left your sanity well behind.
But, whatever melts your butter--have fun!