Posted on 08/13/2016 4:54:49 AM PDT by SkyPilot
When we initially awaken and realize life is not what we were taught, inner alarms scream for our attention. Even though we can sense a danger we didn’t previously perceive, we cannot judge how close it is. There is no scale to measure proximity, only the palpable fear of a real and present danger.
Naturally, most of us will desperately grasp for answers. How can this be? What does this mean? What do I do now? And who is to blame?
We need answers! Or at least we think we do.
As we search for answers, we find there is no shortage of players who are more than willing to supply us with all the answers to our now life changing questions. Most of these people speak with a voice of absolute authority, stating factoids and tidbits with complete certainty and conviction. Naturally they insist their truth must be your truth, for only a fool and still asleep sheep would reject self evident 'truth'.
Scared and desperate for answers, we eagerly listen to those who are brimming with explanations. We quickly discover the alternative media, where much of this information is promoted, is populated by a whole herd of people who arrived long before us, thereby seemingly affirming this new stream of stories and explanations as correct. Many of us find ourselves quickly, even gratefully, moving from our old herd to the new one.
Similar in structure to the world we are now rejecting, the alternative herd has many factions, some quite cohesive, others more fractured and splintered. There are survivalists, preppers, the woo-woo crowd, the intellectuals, the political activists, the militants and so on. There appear to be an unlimited number of cubbyholes where all sorts of kooks, geeks, homesteaders, healers and revolutionaries hang out.
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This part was especailly poignant.
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Now, collapse is a funny thing. Ultimately it is very personal, even though we tend to see it more as a process or societal event. For those who have already lost their job, their home or the secure structure that once defined their life, the collapse is already here. And those slowly bleeding out clearly see the collapse just around the corner.
This demoralizing 'reality' contrasts with those who still live within an insulated environment, often those who still receive massive infusions of government sourced money. For them, there has been no dramatic change in their reality. "What collapse?" they say. "I see nothing of the sort."
We find them living within the ever expanding Washington DC suburbs, the closest you can physically get to the government cash register. Or the many college towns still bursting with economic activity paid for mostly with government backed student loans. And at hundreds of hospitals, along with the cluster of doctors and specialists offices huddled around them, all fed by direct infusion of health insurance, welfare, Obamacare and Big Pharma payments. There are many other examples, but you get the picture.
People who claim some awareness of things not being right will point their finger at the so-called sheep who trudge along day after day unthinkingly supporting the slowly decaying systems. And most of us who point fingers are quick to declare we are not them. We understand the evils now. We know it is unsustainable.
“This demoralizing ‘reality’ contrasts with those who still live within an insulated environment, often those who still receive massive infusions of government sourced money. For them, there has been no dramatic change in their reality. “What collapse?” they say. “I see nothing of the sort.”
This is the Dem constituency; welfare and workfare recipients (”takers”) are certainly spared the collapse experienced by private sector workers and taxpayers (”makers”) - that is why Hillary is even in this race.
Two weeks before the 2008 election, I purchased, on a handshake, 12 acres of beautiful land with a brand new house on it. It is in south central KY. It was ultra secluded. The house was at the top of a knob, surrounded by 8 acres of hay. The perimeter is woods, and the knob is 80 feet above the valley below, where the road is. i.e. nobody knows we're here unless they turn off on a gravel road and go up a steep hill.
I moved there in Aug. of 2011. I call it the garden of Eden, but with more chiggers. And since I discovered permathrin, I don't care about the chiggers.
The reason I mention this all?
I predicted the 2008 collapse, and I knew where we were headed, and I expected McCain to win! I've been a doom and gloomer of a sort since I was in high school (graduated in 1972). But that is because even then I saw problems with inflation and living on debt. I couldn't articulate it at the time, but it just seemed wrong. And of course, decoupling from gold was a huge red flag for me.
But now, I feel as if I've gone back in time about 60 years in a lot of VERY good ways. I love the lifestyle here and what I can do with my property. I bought my neighbor's 20 acres, which includes another knob and two streams. And that othe knob also has a hay field on it. But it is where he kept and fed his cattle for decades. The ground is so rich it is ridiculous.
The point is, if I still lived in Seattle, I'd be beyond panic now. But here? The freedom, property taxes approaching zero, incredible climate and land on which we could survive if necessary is a huge stress reducer as we approach a collapse that will make 2008 look like a dress rehearsal. It's because the collapse that is coming is the culmination of a century of bad decisions by our leaders. Not being in or near a city is very comforting.
Of course, the most comforting part is that God is in control. He has a plan, and I've read it. I'm not the least bit worried - even if I did live in a city.
BTW, Here's the place. I've not uploaded for a year or so...
http://s409.photobucket.com/user/robbbb4/slideshow/Kentucky%20home
Thought experiment:
Let’s say you live in a poor country with no indoor plumbing, high mortality, bug bites, etc.
Now you come to the USA and have free electricity, A/C, indoor plumbing, etc. You’d think you had died and went to heaven.
No need to work ever again.
I’ve noticed, the last two years, that people are starting to act like dogs act just before an earthquake. People know. They’re not sure WHAT they know, but they can sense it.
Only at first.
Even Bill Bonner is almost apologetic now when he predicts collapse. He seems genuinely shocked at how long they’ve been able to kick the can down the road. But make no mistake, like me, he firmly believes that road IS coming to an end. And when it does, the collapse will happen within just a couple of hours.
Many states will simply divorce themselves from FedGov in a collapse. It’s called secession and the people of those states WILL demand it. Will that mean war? Maybe, maybe not.
I don’t think it will be one defining event (as the 2007/2008 crash was); as it is, the former middle class is just quietly disappearing and being replaced by foreigners for whom the “new normal” lower standard of living is still an improvement. If Americans will tolerate what has already happened to their country and way of life, they’ll tolerate more of it; that a Democrat can even run in this race without denouncing the ongoing collapse (and poll fairly well) speaks volumes. Time is on the side of those “fundamentally transforming” this country; they don’t need to seize guns, just let the gun owners (and homeowners, and car owners) die out and go the way of the dodo. That is exactly what has been happening for decades...
When the gummint finally concludes it’s only remaining option is to make war on the people I think they may discover the difficulty we have had for a couple decades. Who do they make war on? How? Where? The gummint will have a more difficult time sorting these questions out than we have.
Texit and many other states can make an Army real quick.
Some sense danger much sooner than others, many are just picking up on what some sensed fifty or more years ago. I told someone once that If I go and watch the traffic on I-95 I have no way of knowing whether any one car will leave at the next exit or not but I can say with certainty that those heading South who stay on I-95 South will eventually end up in Florida and those who stay on I-95 North will pass through North Carolina, Virginia and so on. It has been plain to see for decades that this country is heading down the wrong road and unless a different direction is taken it MUST end in disaster as surely as I-95 South ends in Florida. It just takes some people a lot longer to admit it. Some still think that the road we are on ends at the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Thank you for sharing the photos of your property and Shetland Ponies - beautiful place!
Absolutely! But we, here in VA, and like locales will have a much harder time of distinguishing friend from foe. In “collapse” one must assume everyone is foe. I think the rationale for prepping is not to be subsequently independent forever but to be able to just “hunker down” LNG enough to let the really violent and the unprepared sort things out a bit. 6 weeks, maybe.
Even Texas will have problems in the areas around Austin and along the border.
Collapse Fatigue
( or subtle social / financial changes that impact our Situational Awareness)
Was it not Erdogan who said democracy is just a train you take until you get to the stop you want. In his country that may be the “dictator” stop but here I believe we have enough guns to tell the driver not to even think about that stop but just keep on going until we get back to Republic. At least, that is the hope.
In the case of Texas the Governor, now President of the Republic of Texas, will be in charge of domestic "tranquility". All citizens even Austinites, will be drafted.
If it is created and supported by the US State Department that is just one more reason to send them ALL packing.
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