The secret of the slow collapse

I’ve been waiting for the collapse since the late 1980′s, I bought guns, ammunition, stockpiled food, medicines and other supplies, I did everything I could to prepared for the collapse the economists said was inevitable.

But the it never came. No bolt out of the blue no collapse, things pretty much continued on as usual.

It may sound strange, but I wanted a collapse and was disappointed when it never materialized into anything more than an economic recession. After awhile, I became discouraged and gave up, then came the millennium bug – Y2K.

Six months before January-1-2000, I felt the preparedness bug start to bite, the end was near according to the experts and I wanted to be ready. For six months I stockpiled gear and planned.
New years eve, I waited; watching the clock as the seconds grew closer to midnight. Tick, tick, tick, the minutes passed, five, 30 – nothing happened. I could feel my heart sink as the minutes and hours went by.

I had been telling my family and friends to get ready for months. How would I face them? What would I say?

Then it hit me like a brick to the head. We’ve been collapsing for years, little by little things continue to worsen and our standard of living to decline.

Because the collapse is happening at a slower pass then we expected, few will notice the fall even as they are going over the edge.

They know things are getting worse “out there” after all they watch the news and read the paper, but they fail to see the larger view.

They hold to the belief that things will get better, that someone will do something, eventually they shrug the thought. Until the next bit of bad news, where the cycle repeats itself.

Baring some catastrophe – killer pandemic, Yellowstone eruption or asteroid strike etc., we could plod along for years before reaching total collapse.

Things will continue to get worse with each passing month and year. Homelessness, hunger, crime, loss of freedom and a generally lower quality of living for all but the rich, eventually reaching the point of a third world nation or worse.

Rome did not fall in a day, it took decades, sure the Empire officially fell to the barbarians in 476 A.D., but in reality it had been in a state of decline for centuries. Like Rome; the U.S. wasn’t build in a day and won’t fall in one either, it will be a long slow decline. Plan accordingly…