—For reasons too numerous to list, civilization has already gone into the toilet.—
Actually, as much as I am a true doom and gloomer, I disagree with that statement. I liken us to the guy that jumps off a 100 story building and as he passes the third floor, yells to the guy in the window, “so far, so good”.
You can still get a job. You can still get an education. You can buy stuff, the police still need a warrant to break into your house. You can still go do the park.
When this hits, we’ll be like the early USSR or Nazi Germany. Or worse. After all, they didn’t have the technology we have today. That was a serious deterrent to all out totalitarianism.