Ignoramus12953 wrote:

On 2011-01-08, Steve B wrote:

wrote:

Snag, look into history. These kinds of disruptions happened many
times, and nothing major happened. No massive die offs, people
recovered and life moved on. I am still into survivalist mindset, but
mostly because I like guns, tools and generators.I did realize,
though, that survivalist fears are overdone.

i

Have you ever heard of cognitive dissonance? That is where there is a huge
threat, and the minds of the general public simply cannot handle it, so they
just go off and play Nintendo or go get laid or high or get their nails done
or whatever. We're coming up to some pretty drastic things in the way of
fuel prices, shortage of good water, failure of money and the financial
system, moral decay, camel jockeys getting nukes, and several other areas.

It's good to be a Boy Scout.


Steve, think about New Orleans. It was rather bad in many ways, flood,
bad evacuation, looting, racial issues, etc, but only 1,500 people
died out of 336,000 people.

i

Only 1,500 people died out of 336,000 people, however this was due to
the very localized nature of the incident and the fact that the other
334,500 people were able to evacuate a relatively short distance to
areas where infrastructure was intact. Had this not been the case, the
bulk of those 334,500 other people would not have survived.

I don't think any real collapse of civilization is likely in any of our
lifetimes, however I do think that the Great Global Tidy Bowl Swirl (tm)
is going to continue and overall conditions will continue to
deteriorate. I'm not so much into the "survivalist" thing, but I do
think it is a reasonable goal to become as self reliant and self
sufficient as practical so as to minimize the impact of the continued
decline on yourself and your family.