Greetings good citizen, many of you have at least thought about what you'd do in the event the wheels come flying off our slow burning conflagration we call a society. The 'natural instinct' is to run...but the reality sinks in, where would you go [that wouldn't be quickly overrun by others in the same straits...and if a few of those others are better armed than you it will quickly turn into a fight no one is prepared to lose.]
While the surface of this planet is 7/10ths covered in water, few have the skills or the equipment to get 'lost' in the world's trackless oceans. Your craft not only needs to float but it also needs to have a water processor that can make seawater safe to drink. A place to sleep and at least a rudimentary cooking unit are also requirements because you may NEVER make landfall 'safely' again...not that you'll last too long with all of the 'pirates' scouring the waters for people who prepared better than they did.
Yeah, even the 'safe bet' requires a considerable amount of 'advanced planning' along with 'wherewithal' that most of us just don't have.
Then there are the storms to consider. [You don't need to encounter a hurricane to have your mast/rigging torn off...]
A powerboat relies on fuel and a sail boat also requires fuel since today's sail craft have electric rigging to control the sails. Fuel for your powerboat comes from the danger plagued shore [or those other opportunists that stole a fuel barge to cater to the desperate (obviously not thinking it through) But that resource is good for precisely one fill up, IF those pirates let you sail away.
How far will your powerboat go between fill-ups?
Then there is the issue of how far away from shore do you have to be to be 'safe'? You might have scouted the coast and found isolated coves that would be 'perfect' to park the boat and even spend some time ashore...but this world is pretty crowded and the locals know where to find these coves too. How long before hooligans with fishing boats grab their shotguns to do a little 'offshore hunting'?
A hungry baby is a powerful motivator...and there will be more than one.
I'm picking on the 'obvious' choice if you were going to try and 'escape' the collapse of civilization, basically to drive home the point that even that isn't 'safe' and you will be in major danger once former military craft start scouring the coasts for 'available resources' held by alleged 'renegades'.
The restoration of order SHOULD alleviate these dangers BUT if the 'party people' remain in charge, 'the predation' will also continue. Meaning they will kill indiscriminately solely because they can...and they find it 'amusing'. Also the dead are much easier to deal with than survivors are.
The dead don't say WHAT! when you tell them you expect them to stay in the sand pit and not eat.
Monsters aside, if you are 'reasonably' young and healthy the 'new bosses' will find you grunt work to do. If your 'deal' begins with a piece of a rug thrown in a random corner and a bowl to use in the 'once a day' soup line, welcome to slavery!
Get sick and they might shoot you rather than waste valuable medicine on your otherwise worthless backside. [Probably the biggest 'difference' between now and after will be the pretending stops. Those whothink BELIEVE they are better than the rest will start acting like it.
Ironically, this will be short-lived because people who clearly disdain anyone who isn't them can't be trusted, they are too fickle for even the most hardened/jaded of us.
While they are ascendant they are crazy dangerous but once that crazy dangerous gets well known they usually don't last too long. Loose cannons seldom do.
However if the lunatic in question is also a 'rainmaker' their 'followers' tend to be more 'forgiving' of their 'despicable' side.
SOMETIMES this variety of 'no limits' thinking can produce (temporary) tremendous results but more often than not a 'lack of prudence' is its own reward. [and all of this is related to your speculative future by the question of 'how unlucky are you?'
If you're THAT unlucky then nobody has worked up the guts to remove the 'rainmaker' from power. [and you'll be dead before they act.]
Yeah, another thing wasted on humans is 'patience'. People want results and they want them NOW!
I'm sure you encountered the same 'kettle of fish' when you mentally explored the question of 'what SHOULD I do if the shit hits the fan? and today's headlines must mean it's another 'slow news day' because the military knows to the letter exactly what it's going to do if North Korea launches a dud at US territory...or invades the Olympics or whatever.
Today's headlines about 'the military making plans' is bullshit. Them plans have already been made. If anything they are being 'tweaked'.
IF 'an event' occurs you can bet your wallet that the non-existent cabal of overlords orchestrated it.
Too much happens that doesn't make sense. The primary reason 'conspiracy theories' persist is BECAUSE events are NOT 'as advertised'.
Worse, the winners and losers thing. It's not too difficult to figure out who 'wins' when a certain course of action is taken...like the recent trillion dollar hole blown in the federal budget...just as FDR's boomers are retiring!
Like the fabled '2nd coming', some twisted bastard is trying to make their 'prediction of disaster' a reality!
Don't know what you're thinking but think again, you CAN run but you CAN'T hide.
When the wheels come flying off you're gonna do what you're doing right now and hope your little slice of heaven escapes notice. Reality is you probably don't have enough food to last 'the week' (meaning THIS week) and you can't think of a single to 'go' that there won't be ten thousand people there ahead of you so the 'bug-in' option has already been made for you.
It is this exact same 'decision tree' that has prevented a revolt...the nowhere to run' dilemma.
No place is 'safe' and soon your little 'hovel' [figure of speech, most of us are far from living in huts.] will provide nothing more than what it always has, a safe place to sleep because there is nothing there that anybody wants.
Your 'problem' rests with the 'bankers'. They are coming for your hovel because forcing you into the streets makes you MUCH easier to control.
[Remember the other day when I pointed to the idea of 'selling freedom'...well, the sellers want it back and if you can't afford it, tough!]
Consider your position and act accordingly...
Thanks once again for letting me inside YOUR head,
Gegner
In a rare preview, tomorrow's piece explores the (true) 'price of Freedom'... In keeping with my new titling protocol, only the word 'freedom' will be used.
While the surface of this planet is 7/10ths covered in water, few have the skills or the equipment to get 'lost' in the world's trackless oceans. Your craft not only needs to float but it also needs to have a water processor that can make seawater safe to drink. A place to sleep and at least a rudimentary cooking unit are also requirements because you may NEVER make landfall 'safely' again...not that you'll last too long with all of the 'pirates' scouring the waters for people who prepared better than they did.
Yeah, even the 'safe bet' requires a considerable amount of 'advanced planning' along with 'wherewithal' that most of us just don't have.
Then there are the storms to consider. [You don't need to encounter a hurricane to have your mast/rigging torn off...]
A powerboat relies on fuel and a sail boat also requires fuel since today's sail craft have electric rigging to control the sails. Fuel for your powerboat comes from the danger plagued shore [or those other opportunists that stole a fuel barge to cater to the desperate (obviously not thinking it through) But that resource is good for precisely one fill up, IF those pirates let you sail away.
How far will your powerboat go between fill-ups?
Then there is the issue of how far away from shore do you have to be to be 'safe'? You might have scouted the coast and found isolated coves that would be 'perfect' to park the boat and even spend some time ashore...but this world is pretty crowded and the locals know where to find these coves too. How long before hooligans with fishing boats grab their shotguns to do a little 'offshore hunting'?
A hungry baby is a powerful motivator...and there will be more than one.
I'm picking on the 'obvious' choice if you were going to try and 'escape' the collapse of civilization, basically to drive home the point that even that isn't 'safe' and you will be in major danger once former military craft start scouring the coasts for 'available resources' held by alleged 'renegades'.
The restoration of order SHOULD alleviate these dangers BUT if the 'party people' remain in charge, 'the predation' will also continue. Meaning they will kill indiscriminately solely because they can...and they find it 'amusing'. Also the dead are much easier to deal with than survivors are.
The dead don't say WHAT! when you tell them you expect them to stay in the sand pit and not eat.
Monsters aside, if you are 'reasonably' young and healthy the 'new bosses' will find you grunt work to do. If your 'deal' begins with a piece of a rug thrown in a random corner and a bowl to use in the 'once a day' soup line, welcome to slavery!
Get sick and they might shoot you rather than waste valuable medicine on your otherwise worthless backside. [Probably the biggest 'difference' between now and after will be the pretending stops. Those who
Ironically, this will be short-lived because people who clearly disdain anyone who isn't them can't be trusted, they are too fickle for even the most hardened/jaded of us.
While they are ascendant they are crazy dangerous but once that crazy dangerous gets well known they usually don't last too long. Loose cannons seldom do.
However if the lunatic in question is also a 'rainmaker' their 'followers' tend to be more 'forgiving' of their 'despicable' side.
SOMETIMES this variety of 'no limits' thinking can produce (temporary) tremendous results but more often than not a 'lack of prudence' is its own reward. [and all of this is related to your speculative future by the question of 'how unlucky are you?'
If you're THAT unlucky then nobody has worked up the guts to remove the 'rainmaker' from power. [and you'll be dead before they act.]
Yeah, another thing wasted on humans is 'patience'. People want results and they want them NOW!
I'm sure you encountered the same 'kettle of fish' when you mentally explored the question of 'what SHOULD I do if the shit hits the fan? and today's headlines must mean it's another 'slow news day' because the military knows to the letter exactly what it's going to do if North Korea launches a dud at US territory...or invades the Olympics or whatever.
Today's headlines about 'the military making plans' is bullshit. Them plans have already been made. If anything they are being 'tweaked'.
IF 'an event' occurs you can bet your wallet that the non-existent cabal of overlords orchestrated it.
Too much happens that doesn't make sense. The primary reason 'conspiracy theories' persist is BECAUSE events are NOT 'as advertised'.
Worse, the winners and losers thing. It's not too difficult to figure out who 'wins' when a certain course of action is taken...like the recent trillion dollar hole blown in the federal budget...just as FDR's boomers are retiring!
Like the fabled '2nd coming', some twisted bastard is trying to make their 'prediction of disaster' a reality!
Don't know what you're thinking but think again, you CAN run but you CAN'T hide.
When the wheels come flying off you're gonna do what you're doing right now and hope your little slice of heaven escapes notice. Reality is you probably don't have enough food to last 'the week' (meaning THIS week) and you can't think of a single to 'go' that there won't be ten thousand people there ahead of you so the 'bug-in' option has already been made for you.
It is this exact same 'decision tree' that has prevented a revolt...the nowhere to run' dilemma.
No place is 'safe' and soon your little 'hovel' [figure of speech, most of us are far from living in huts.] will provide nothing more than what it always has, a safe place to sleep because there is nothing there that anybody wants.
Your 'problem' rests with the 'bankers'. They are coming for your hovel because forcing you into the streets makes you MUCH easier to control.
[Remember the other day when I pointed to the idea of 'selling freedom'...well, the sellers want it back and if you can't afford it, tough!]
Consider your position and act accordingly...
Thanks once again for letting me inside YOUR head,
Gegner
In a rare preview, tomorrow's piece explores the (true) 'price of Freedom'... In keeping with my new titling protocol, only the word 'freedom' will be used.
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