fun time over

FUN TIME OVER

Well, kids, fun time is over.  You know it, I know it and most certainly Ross Perot knows it.  It was all fun and games talking about prepping, manly men shopping ( as opposed to girly shoe and blouse shopping ), reading zombie books and arguing over the merits of Peak Oil verses Fracking Forever.  But now that the collapse is a definite For Real done deal, the happy aspect of it all is over.  Now every thing takes on a far more somber tone.  Before, we could argue over AR’s verses war surplus bolts, you could buy both and everyone went on arguing the merits as if it were merely choosing the best duty sidearm.  It was harmless fun until someone lost an eye.

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Now, since this Crap Got REAL, Yo!, it is a bit more of a serious matter deciding which gun to buy because, one, it might be your last one you can afford to buy ( or, the last one the factory churned out ), and two, now it’s a real defensive weapon instead of just another fun toy you’re adding to your collection.  Plus, now you actually have to plow serious money into ammunition because that game is almost over, also.  Less guns, more ammo, more for stockpiling and far less for fun range time.  No more fun there.

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I’m feeling it a bit myself, with my writing.  It isn’t fun any more.  And not because it is now my real day job-this publishing has always been a hard thing to do, done properly, but at least before I could conduct rants, go off on ex-wife tangents, bring up immaterial matters like politics.  Now, it seems like that enjoyable part is ending.  It’s all pretty dull and serious stuff.  Granted, I’m trying to keep my sense of humor, but it does just keep getting harder.  It is far more a Mission From God calling now than it is a Fun Hobby.  From Day One it was evangelical, but it was also more enjoyment than duty.  Now…?

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We all knew it was over, a long time ago.  Even if we didn’t admit it to ourselves.  Peak Oil was 2005 ( every thing there after merely details-the end result a given ).  When New Orleans and Detroit ( and Newark and etc. ) were never rebuilt or even the piles of rubble never removed, that was Peak Infrastructure Collapse.  That occurred prior to the 2008 financial collapse.  Once it became law that every citizen could be arrested without cause and detained indefinitely, that was the end game of the police state.  I could go one-but my point is that all our caterwauling is just conformational bias trying to mute denial.

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Dennis Meadows, updating The Limits To Growth, spoke of 2015-2020 as the overshoot and collapse beginning.  It seems he was correct ( see Energy Skeptic.com June 3, 2014 ).  You can throw a dead cat and hit an example.  The medical industry, most obviously.  You don’t get to increase costs 20-30% a year and survive that ( and since that is 20% of our economy, expect an oh so thunderous crash there ).  Retail Apocalypse ( after Amazon closes its doors, or at least returns to just books, the retail sector will still shrink ).  The 1% raping and looting the last standing infrastructure.  Houston, oil processing capital, left to mostly rot other than media spotlight pics.

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Near Monopoly companies ( Paladin Press, the biggest freeze dried food producer ) are going out of business due to lack of demand.  Consumers living paycheck to paycheck ( 49% of the population ) don’t have a lot of disposable income.  That all goes to the medical industry.  Until their working hours get cut again, then nothing goes there.  I mean, really, to look at all this evidence that we are beyond the condition of most Third World countries, and deny it?  That are people thinking?  I can understand the average Moe on the street.  Eat corn derivatives and stay focused on your electronic teat.  But when my readers, the loyal minions that stay to be abused, don’t like the signs they see?  How can you deny?

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Life goes on.  We keep keeping on until the ass falls out of civilization.  But can’t we at least drop the attitude like we have much time left?  I don’t expect a McPhearson level of depression and gloom.  And I know it takes a lot more effort to see the fun in all this.  But if we at least accepted the end is indeed nigh, as in months rather than years or decades ( not trying to date the collapse, I’m trying to highlight the needed attitude and level of preparedness ), couldn’t our discourse be far more helpful? 

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As an example, I was taken to task after I wrote the article of Below Acceptable Minimal Standards Of Prepping ( I don’t remember the title, that was just meant to be descriptive ).  The one where I said bags of flour and a spear made from thrift store paring knives, financed with Food Stamp cash.  Remember that one?  Well, evidently I didn’t aim higher.  I was guilty of proposing substandard items.  Duh, right?  That was the point.  Someone with nothing and no job and in two months at least they had a six month supply of food.  I figured it was good for pensioners or the unemployed or your relatives and friends who wouldn’t prep.  It was the ultimate Better Than Nothing.

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So why was it lambasted?  I’m guessing that since some of us are still in denial, it is still the Fun Time Happy Talk phase of prepping.  I can’t agree.  That time is long gone.  It is really panic time.  Not because I can time the collapse-no one can.  But because too many occurrences are dog-piling each other and things seem to be rushing quicker to the waterfall.  Hell, even our Bread And Circuses are in grave danger right now.  The #1 Circus, professional football, is in danger of catastrophic failure.  Movie studios spend $300 million for a superhero flop.  When Heaven’s Gate did that, the studio went under.  Now?  An every day occurrence.  The entertainment industry is collapsing.  That’s another article. 

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For now, perhaps we can focus less on preps ( you either have already got them or drop everything to get them, and then call it good one way or another ) and more on the humor as things implode.  Instead of a call to preps, they can simply be enjoyed ( I’ll work at trying to stop crying wolf for prepping. It isn’t going to be easy, as I’ve had twenty plus years doing it ).  And post-collapse becoming more of a focus ( again, it will be a work in progress as old habits die hard ). 

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