I was thinking certain possibilities recently, that went way beyond economic collapse and social upheaval.
What if we are about to experience the end of our civilization, as we know it.
The best way to prepare would be to live in a community that was prepared, with it's own currency, economy, government, military, law enforcement and legal system in place.
A community not overly connected with the society that was about to fall apart.
A village of like minded people all with different skills and all with the same protective mindset for the whole village.
An attack on one member is an attack on the whole village, because it weakens the village if members are lost.
Individuals could find it hard to survive even if they think they are self sufficient.
No one can be truly self sufficient for the long term, because at some stage they will have to rely on some external resources.
The people that will survive the worst case scenarios will live in community, not the lone wolves.
I have seen communities survive the worst economic destruction. They just created there own currency, and issued it to each member of the community as a dividend.
People sold their primary produce in that currency and sold their labor and crafts in that currency.
Some communities today sell 50% of their produce in their own currency, and the other 50% in the countries currency. So when they see that their nations currency is hyper inflated or reduced from circulation in a depression, they can easily transition fully to their own currency.
Paper money and even gold and silver have no value if there are no products to buy and sell. You can't eat gold, and paper is only slightly more nutritional, so really a community can decide what currency they trade their goods and services in.
In the depression the money supply was contracted by the banks and millions starved to death. Many starved to death in America, when there was plenty of food and products but very little money in the system.
A community can issue it's own currency and sell it's own produce and labor in that currency.
I asked one man where they got there gas to run their cars since their was no oil refinery in their system.
He just pointed to the olive trees and said they made bio diesel to fuel their cars. And the river powered their homes with electricity.
The electricity will be sold in the local currency too eventually as more people use it.
Anyway it makes sense to live in community, a community that produces all kinds of products and primary products, to sell in it's local currency.
An individual can only do so much preparation, and he will eventually fall way short in the worst case scenarios.
You can either have the mindset that boards the doors and windows and shoots the scavengers that come begging, or you could be a little more intelligent and community oriented producing food and products that help the whole community.
You can't produce everything yourself, but a community can produce a much greater amount and variety, that far exceeds an individuals best efforts.
You can't stay awake 24/7 to defend your property, but a community sure can.
Unfortunately today many are not so community oriented, and are immature lone wolf Johnny rambos, that only think of themselves. The Modern mentality has trained people to be individualistic, selfish, vain and uncaring.
It will be interesting to see what happens in the real SHTF scenario, and who truly is prepared.
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