Reply #30: I agree with all you've said, [View All]

In fact I've been preaching it to all who would listen for the past couple of decades, yet few people took me seriously until the last five years. We are going to see the crash of civilization as we know it, and quite frankly I don't think that there is anything that we can do to prevent it at this point, especially with the corporatistas running the show.

So the best that one can do now is prepare like mad in order that you have a chance at survival. First off, get the hell out of the urban areas. Not only are they a big fat target, but they are not condusive to survival. Get yourself out to the country, learn how to live without electricity. Those old antique hand tools you see in the botiques, well, buy them up, for oil and gas are going to be gone. Plant a garden, learn how to process and store your own food. Set up some solar panels, or a windmill, get a woodstove. There is a series of survivalist books published during the seventies at the height of the hippies' back to nature movement. They're called the Foxfire series, and they contain most of the information that is needed in order to live in a non-tech society. If you can get the series, or even one, do so, they're invaluable.

There is only a small window of opportunity left in which one can prepare, my guess is somewhere between five and ten years. Use it wisely in order that you don't become a statistic. And as cold as it may sound, arm yourself. When the fecal matter hits the blades, there are going to be lots of hungry, desperate, armed people looking for salvation. And while it is in our natural makeup to help those in need, it will be absolutely impossible to help the vast throngs that are going to be swarming out of the cities looking for food. Thus, you are going to need to protect yourself and loved ones. And nothing says go away like the barrel of twelve gauge pump shotgun, or other comparable firearm. And make sure you have plenty of ammo, for what you have will be all you can get. No electricity, no manufacturing of any sort.

I know that this makes me sound like some sort of paranoid survivalist, and I'm rather suprised at myself. But I simply see no other future for us, not when I consider the path we've trod, and the territory we're entering. Our economy is teetering on the bring, global warming is starting to let forth it's full fury, peak oil is right around the corner, and Bushco is terrorizing a world that is increasingly pulling together in order to fight back. It is these factors and more that lead me to believe that we, the United States, are doomed to go down like the Romans into the Dark Ages. And like Rome, we will take the rest of the world with us.