>>In 1933 flash mobs were not stealing the apple carts<<
Great observation. The social glue of the 1930s is long gone.
“Great observation. The social glue of the 1930s is long gone.”
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Not only the social glue but the knowledge of how to survive on a shoestring is gone. I was born in 1944 five days before D-Day. We lived on forty acres in South Carolina a mile off the nearest blacktop road . My parents knew how to survive with nearly nothing because they had reached adulthood on farms during the depression. Some on FR seem to think they can just go back and live that way if they find it necessary but it is not that simple. I can still remember how to do a lot of what I learned growing up but I realize that I never learned much of what they knew. Most people now cannot even imagine how people lived back then. You could hand the average young person a fine sharp axe now and they would collapse from exhaustion before they cut through a small tree branch.
I don’t mean this to sound critical, it is simply the facts. Most people have no more understanding of how to live that way than my father had of how to use a computer. A computer was simply a word that he learned before he died and that kind of living is simply words to most people, they have no idea of the reality behind the words. There are exceptions of course but they are a small minority.
I have a feeling that the time between now and the 1st of the year is going to get pretty darned exciting.