Actually living closer to the edge makes it easier to drop everything and man the barricades. If you don’t have a job anyway you can’t lose your job. Of course even then a lot of work went into making payroll for the army of the revolution. That’s when you know society is really hitting a breaking point, when somebody is giving the revolution a budget.
I don’t know about things being OK, but I do know life will go on. It might go on sucky, but it will go on.
Yep. A long slow decline, ‘not with a bang but a whimper’, is a much more likely fate for Western Civilization.