How will you assess "The Balloon just went up"....??

[Magus]

Any member here who would consider me (Sourdough) a "doomer" or as someone who believes the end of the world is near.....???

(Note: it is totally OK with me if you do.)

Just CURIOUS...

Nope. you seem to be the kind of guy who would cook chicken little.
Doomers live in fear, that's the downfall. It's not a bad thing to be a realist or a pessimist,
the world sucks as we all know.

 

[lonewolf]

So your position is that people cannot be prepped if they do not agree with your prediction of imminent doom?

(1) Some people go into emergency prep mode after falling down the rabbit hole of doom predictions. (2) Some people prep to super high levels, then start predicting doom themselves to justify their actions. (3) Others prep, but do not see immediate doom on their doorstep. (4) Still others don't prep at all, don't see doom ever coming, and will be in for a surprise if it happens.

There are other variations, but these are the main groups that I see.

The people in group (1) pretty much stay to themselves, but do tend to express their panic publicly at times. The people in group (2) think that the only alternative to their group is either group (4) or group (1), they don't seem to conceive the possibility of a group (3) even existing.

I guess you are trying to place me in group (4). But you're wrong. I'm in group (3).

I dont aspire to any group, I am my own person, I do not care if people dont prepare, if nobody else prepares, that is their choice, but the way the world is going something big is going to happen and soon, I dont prepare for "this or that" event I prepare for what comes after which will inevitable involve Societal Collapse and WROL. my parents went through WW2 and although the words "Prepper" or "Survivalist" hadnt been invented then they and people of their generation had larders and grew their own food and had skills that have now been lost on the modern computer generation- if they cant Google it or watch a YouTube video they wont be able to do it and they will fail.

 

[Tirediron]

Decline is undeniable.

I defy anyone to argue that we are not in fiscal, industrial, economic, social, moral, ethical, political, cultural, military, infrastructural and general decline.

I fully agree that things are beyond a simple government change being able to fix or prolong it for that much longer, scary part of that is the "authoritys" have created most of the mess in the first place, kind of like people who think that government does the best it can for people. NOT