Is it possible we are all just kidding ourselves?

[Devonian]

I would say, keeping prepping, plan for the worst and hope for the best!

After all, the chances of total societal collapse are significantly more remote than many of the other things that could happen for which your prepping would also be a godsend.

None of knows what will happen in the future and even the best prepared could be killed or seriously injured in a car crash at the start of an event, whilst your unprepared neighbour may just go and stay on his brother-in-laws farm and survive happily - the point is we just don't know and we have to do the best we can without being paranoid about it at the same time, as it may also never happen!