You just need to decide what you think is the most likely and plan for that.
How about the idea of a total societal collapse.
First of all, I have no faith in the whole escape to another part of the world idea. The world is not a nice safe place. Other countries will have no problem deporting foreigners, or worse. Locals will have no compunction against taking from those who have no part of the fabric of the location. The governments will have little incentive to protect them or their assets other than to confiscate them for themselves.
Without the rule of law, it will be difficult to find someone to trust who accept some hard goods in trade that you could trust rather than taking anything of value from you and sending you on your way (at best). If you do find someone to trust, any perceived notion of the original purchase price of those assets are meaningless. Assuming you negotiate some type of trade, how are you going to keep the exchanged goods safe to return with them?
Faced with real shortages, no amount of stockpiling will suffice long term. You have a farm or garden, you cannot guard it indefinitely. You can't leave any livestock to feed themselves out in a pasture and expect them to be there. Let's assume that you have a stockpile of materials for self defense. How long can you stay vigilant? Once those have been expended, how are you going to restock them? Once others are aware of the supplies and you have been made a target, what threat can you create that will deter someone who is making the choice between certain death from starvation and a possible death from someone who is protecting their resources?
The only viable solution would be to open up your stockpiles to share to create a bond and increase the size of your group for common protection.
For a less desperate, short term situation?
Keep your head down and stay out of it. Be prepared to leave with the bare essentials that you can carry that don't make you a target.
The reason we have a crisis at our border is that a lot of places in the world are already at at least in the beginning stages of collapse. The US is one of the few refuges left in the world.
this is the conclusion I have reached, after many years of collapse awareness and self sufficiency. Nothing can be protected and resilient without a strong community of those you share views , values and survival with.
If we go grey instead of trying to support the freedom fighters and spread truth, don't we just end up helping the totalatarians and watching people go to the "gas chamber" and huddle in our own perceived safety. Talk about repeating history. I don't agree with this "option".
I have thought about that and have decided to keep resisting , creating and leaving the empire. Photo’s and talk of kittens etc is so boring . These are exciting times of evolution maybe even revolution, but that is a slim possibility as most are acquiescing without even noticing .
Being prepared mentally, physically and spiritually for the worse whilst creating my life with joy and beauty is an interesting dynamic to live.
You just need to decide what you think is the most likely and plan for that.
How about the idea of a total societal collapse.
First of all, I have no faith in the whole escape to another part of the world idea. The world is not a nice safe place. Other countries will have no problem deporting foreigners, or worse. Locals will have no compunction against taking from those who have no part of the fabric of the location. The governments will have little incentive to protect them or their assets other than to confiscate them for themselves.
Without the rule of law, it will be difficult to find someone to trust who accept some hard goods in trade that you could trust rather than taking anything of value from you and sending you on your way (at best). If you do find someone to trust, any perceived notion of the original purchase price of those assets are meaningless. Assuming you negotiate some type of trade, how are you going to keep the exchanged goods safe to return with them?
Faced with real shortages, no amount of stockpiling will suffice long term. You have a farm or garden, you cannot guard it indefinitely. You can't leave any livestock to feed themselves out in a pasture and expect them to be there. Let's assume that you have a stockpile of materials for self defense. How long can you stay vigilant? Once those have been expended, how are you going to restock them? Once others are aware of the supplies and you have been made a target, what threat can you create that will deter someone who is making the choice between certain death from starvation and a possible death from someone who is protecting their resources?
The only viable solution would be to open up your stockpiles to share to create a bond and increase the size of your group for common protection.
For a less desperate, short term situation?
Keep your head down and stay out of it. Be prepared to leave with the bare essentials that you can carry that don't make you a target.
The reason we have a crisis at our border is that a lot of places in the world are already at at least in the beginning stages of collapse. The US is one of the few refuges left in the world.
this is the conclusion I have reached, after many years of collapse awareness and self sufficiency. Nothing can be protected and resilient without a strong community of those you share views , values and survival with.
If we go grey instead of trying to support the freedom fighters and spread truth, don't we just end up helping the totalatarians and watching people go to the "gas chamber" and huddle in our own perceived safety. Talk about repeating history. I don't agree with this "option".
I have thought about that and have decided to keep resisting , creating and leaving the empire. Photo’s and talk of kittens etc is so boring . These are exciting times of evolution maybe even revolution, but that is a slim possibility as most are acquiescing without even noticing .
Being prepared mentally, physically and spiritually for the worse whilst creating my life with joy and beauty is an interesting dynamic to live.
I'm with you on all you said, Susan, thank you.