Along what @decomposed said, I had a similar thought last night: Is it actually going to happen, now, 10 years from now? How many decades have people being prepping and nothing has happened? When they did start prepping they truly believed the end is nigh, and had the tenacity to keep going. Respect.
So we cannot know the future, we can just plan using gut-feel, fear mongering or educated(?) guesses. Educated questioned in that if it was factual, we would have been right.
We cannot get the skills truly needed to fully grasp what it can be like. When I drive around and see what is I realize one needs to go and live dirt poor in a shack, on the streets, to “get-it”. Suburbanites have no “street cred” whatsoever. We have never walked the talk to the degree it will be needed. Some military people truly have the skills, but they tend to be few and far in-between having been in very specialized units. General military troops, I was there, we where never trained to live off-the-land. We always had rat-packs / MRI’s.
So with that in mind, the parts that has made me start to seriously wonder after all these years, do I or don’t I, was when I realized over a few years, that:
– Record storm of the century!!! … month later a bigger one and then a even bigger one.
– When scientists now are wondering, declare a Category 6?
– When the insurance industry says they now have a new record ito payouts for natural disasters.
– There where an average earthquakes per decade, then a increase of that year on year.
– Bedrock in West Antarctica rising at surprisingly rapid rate.
– Enormous crack splitting Africa
– International debt keeps growing and growing.
– The super rich have amassed more money, individually, than some countries have.
– The middle class becoming poorer and poorer – there is just so much money (the rich has it), and the debt is increasing, for the middle class to keep on buying, so that the rich can get richer.
– Famine all over, yet there are tons of food wasted, not “cost effective to give it away”.
– Droughts, floods, record hail and snow in the Sahara that even camels get confused in the snow.
– Democratically elected governments failing one after the other.
– Mass immigration into Europe.
– More wars and rumors of wars.
The Book of Revelation has some very interesting predictions. Looking at them and peering out on what goes on all over the world, we have the WWW to make it easy, makes for very interesting debates. I’m trying to link the breadcrumbs, but what is predicted, not good, not good at all, less so when new very dangerous subduction zones are discovered.
Then I wonder, during WW1 and WWII, did the people not feel the same, the end is here and now?
When Krakatoa popped, starting the great famine in the 1800’s, did they not think the end is here?
The Great Depression?
When the Twin Towers fell?
When I look at all the above, civil unrest becomes a storm in a teacup, because living on the Dark Continent makes one view things differently, civil unrest is par for the course here. There are bigger worries out there in the world.