and then there was none 1 of 2 ( post 1 of 2 today )

AND THEN THERE WAS NONE ( post 1 of 2 today )

Reflecting back, there does seem to be a reoccurring element of suddenly waking up each morning and realizing crap suddenly changed.  Not to suggest that changes are overnight, because they are long term trends.  Rather, I’m saying that after a long time, the scale being slowly loaded suddenly tips to one side.  Or, perhaps better yet, think of it as the avalanche that consists of innocent weightless flakes of snow, accumulating from nothing to a sudden natural disaster.  All through the new millennia, you could see the trend in the housing bubble.  But it was overnight your house suddenly went underwater.

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The avalanche is sudden, but it took awhile to get there.  This is what I’m speaking of with the Waterfall Collapse.  Half the preppers out there think reality is All Normal, All The Time, until suddenly a Zeus like deity unleashes a thunderbolt of calamity.  Then the other half think we all face Forever Incremental Decline, without any particularly bad thing ever happening except another tiny cut.  You know what happens with A Death By A Thousand Cuts?  Without warning, one more drop of blood is lost which is one drop too many, and you die.

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“The straw that broke the camel’s back” is how declines get to a collapse.  You cannot keep loading straws on top indefinitely ( as the Stair Steppers pretend ), and you don’t get a broke camel by a load of straw suddenly falling on it ( as the “all normal until an overnight collapse” advocates pretend ).  One set pretend bad things never happen, the other set pretend bad things only happen occasionally and probably not in their lifetimes.  Both sides are delusional deniers that they shall ever have to stop snorting optimism through a deviated septum.

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Overnight collapses don’t actually happen, but they do appear that way.  The Yellow Vest’ers in France APPEAR to have suddenly began rioting, which if they are lucky will lead to a largely bloodless revolution defeating globalists, but there were decades of tax increases with benefit reductions and increased immigration and other issues behind it ( I currently wear a yellow vest while biking.  Luckily, I also have some orange ones in case I need to go undercover if the movement spreads here ).  But how do you tell WHICH “overnight collapses” are feasible and which are not?

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Look at most apocalypse fiction.  North Korea is angered at us and nukes us with an EMP and it is all over.  Why?  Why would North Korea use their nukes?  The US doesn’t invade countries with nuclear weapons or without oil.  The Norks know this.  Or, the UN suddenly decides to comply with Evil Leftists and sends in Blue Helmets.  Why?  There is zero reason to throw away the small army it has on such a foolish gesture.  And this ignores that the Right is just as evil as the Left.  Communist or fascist, a dictatorship either way.  You must always ask, why?

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No one saw the Yellow Vest riots coming.  Because Whites had humbly agreed to have the globalists loot their country and culture so far, it was assumed they would always act thus.  Because gun owners have been the world’s biggest pussies so far to date,  all the politicians that graduated from Dumb Ass University feel they can easily speak of using nuclear weapons on any group refusing to comply to the Big Gun Grab.  Just like the French Political Hooers felt they could keep spitting on the voters and rubbing their faces in their poverty.

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So, why can you figure that White People Problems will become real one day, but UN Peacekeeper Occupations are never going to really happen?  Trends.  There is no trend of nations attacking the US, militarily.  But there are trends of the poor revolting against regime’s that endanger their lives.  China isn’t going to attack us through cyberwarfare.  If we attack her, even though that is rather unlikely with her nuclear deterrent, sure.  But not before.  That is what pundits who call every single straw the one that will break the camel’s back say.  Because the only trend they see is ‘Murica Greatness, they  think ANY sign of Not Great is the Final Straw.

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We know that the PetroDollar will end.  That is the solid trend.  Yet we are all going to be surprised when it happens.  Not because it isn’t obvious but because we have no way of knowing what triggers the avalanche.  Most folks of course will do nothing, wanting to believe that they can beat the trend with death.  Which is another trend.  Survivalists are mostly forged from the ‘70’s CrapStorm.  We are a bunch of old humpers.  The trend is you can’t survive the collapse, because of age.

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One day you can still scamper, if barely, from cover to cover ( even if you had to lighten up your arsenal so as to be able to carry it ), and the next all you can do is shuffle.  But I won’t belabor that one as it is to be a chapter in the hermitage book.  Some trends are set in stone, is my point.  Just keep an eye on the trend. Don’t focus on each individual snowflake or piece of straw.  Don’t waste time or energy on it, after you have identified it as reinforcing the trend.

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And don’t buy into the shrieks and dismay that every straw proves we are all going to die, tomorrow.  Fear mongering is great for motivation, if it is disciplined.  Not so great if your response is too emotional.  Do you know what I do when the Dow Jones suddenly drops in cataclysmic fashion?  Nothing.  I could care less.  I’m as fully prepped for economic collapse as I can be, so I ignore the noise of “experts”.  Especially “survivalist gurus”.  All their warnings are based on all the straw falling all at once on the camel’s back. 

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We are to believe that overnight, the bankers control of the markets are erased, and that individual investors ( as opposed to institutional ones such as state pension funds ) are once again running them.  That is the equivalent of assuming Mad Men Control The Nukes.  The trend is misidentified.  The economy is debt, it isn’t chits from the gambling room.  Something will trigger the economic collapse.  Nobody is going to be correct about what, except in a generalized manner.  The best bet is to simply NOT be as vulnerable to the economy.  No debt and a job as a source ONLY for Mad Money is a good start.

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I’m not saying you can avoid all consequences.  You can only minimize them.  But far better that than continuing to bet that last snowflake won’t cause the avalanche.  Which is what your bet is, if you are in debt and need that job.  Again, yes, everyone needs a job.  They need income.  But you need to have a job you don’t need.  If you cannot afford to have a period of unemployment, you are far too dependent on that job.  A job is like a wife.  If you can’t walk away, you are not in control. 

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I feel like I can blather some more on this tomorrow.

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