Slow Collapse

[Mortblanc]

SS if TPTB already have a new system worked out and in place to implement to their benefit then SHTF will not be a collapse of the system into anarchy but a replacement of one system for the other.

They can not afford a collapse, total loss of control, and anarchy. Only controllable panic and manageable disaster will suffice.

Since we are now living in a situation that we described and warned about as being SHTF a decade ago then we are living in SHTF and no one accepts it because we are still waiting with baited breath for the "complete breakdown".

We have a mentality that hangs onto the thought that "it could be worse" and until the worst happens we are not in SHTF.

We are already into our preps and using our long term survival planning and resources to make our present life livable and we have been for almost 2 years now, world wide.

Joe says his family has not been to a shop since the Covid began. All of us have self isolated several times in the past 18 months. Some was self imposed but much of it was mandated by the government, and we did it without real protest or resistance. We are hiding from the Golden Horde without there being a Golden Horde!

We are all now continuously replenishing our food preps because we are using them up rather than increasing our supplies. Because we can still replace those supplies from badly stocked shelves at ragged intervals, while wearing a mask and standing 2 meters separated, we feel that we are not in SHTF, even though we are living the life.

No we are not living in mud huts and killing songbirds with catapults, but we are now living a life we once warned about as part of the SHTF scenerio.

Many of the people here can tell us that they have had their own personal SHTF situations over the years. Sickness, unemployment, sudden unexpected expenses, natural tragedy. Those individual situations are generally ignored after a good pat on the back and an "attaboy". Good thing you had them old boy, restock them quickly, you might need them for real SHTF.

2 years ago almost the entire western world had its rude jolt and the economy basically shut down. And what have we worried about and warned of for decades? Why the economy shutting down of course!

So now we have empty shelves, broken supply chains, restrictions on movement, shortages of fuel, the population in a very carefully controlled panic mode. The world has been groomed into this carefully molded situation for 18 months, or longer.

Do we have to be living a 19th century lifestyle to have all the criterion of SHTF in operation, as it is now?