How Do You Really Know When You’re in the Middle of a Collapse?

This is a legitimate question–and I’m not saying I have an answer–but I truly feel that we’re in the middle of some sort of nationwide, or maybe even worldwide, collapse. But how do I know we’re going to collapse? The truth is, I don’t know for sure.

Sure, I could cite the U.S. Debt Clock website which shows (to an alarming level) just how ridiculous our country’s financials are, though this chart is a more interesting way to look at the national debt and shows just how bad it’s become over the past handful of decades alone.

I could point out that we’ve been spending trillions upon trillions of dollars that we don’t have for a variety of reasons related to COVID, and that we’ll likely pass the $3.5 trillion spending bill (or something relatively close to it) that congress is supposedly fighting over right now. Honestly, I don’t even bother to keep track of congressional financial stupidity anymore.

I could mention that there are millions of unemployed Americans yet millions more job openings, which shouldn’t make sense until you realize the government incentivizes people not to work.

How about inflation? Even the government can’t keep the “official” inflation rates down, citing 5% of more each month since May of this year. But you don’t have to be an economist to know those numbers are B.S. for a variety of reasons. And that’s to say nothing of hidden inflation costs, such as a bag of chips getting smaller yet costing the same or more; I’ve been noticing that more and more lately.

There’s talk of secession again, but this time a majority of Americans say they want it, not just Texas or northern California…perhaps the “State of Jefferson” will become a reality, after all. But I truly don’t see how a cordial separation by political ideology could take place seeing as though conservatives are largely flanked by coastal liberals; that’s a recipe for disaster, if you ask me.

And then there’s the political/ideological divide due to BLM and COVID, which is still rearing it’s ugly head with never-ending mask mandates along with a genuine concern that we’re trending toward a totalitarian police state when that’s never what America is intended to be…you know, “the land of the free” thing.

But this could all be me looking for reasons to decide we’re falling apart at the seams. It could be that the pandemic lifts, people get back to work, and we manage to kick the can of debt down the road for decades somehow. Maybe, but I just don’t see how that’s possible given all that’s taken place the past two years and, sadly, what I expect to take place going forward.

After all, and I’m trying not to get political here, I don’t see the current administration doing anything positive to grow the economy or instill confidence that America is “on the right track” in any meaningful way. Do you?

Moreover, we all know that governments tend not to let go of power once they have, and I can’t think of a time when government had more power than they do now. Can you? Was wartime (especially WW2) this authoritarian? I would really like to know. At some point, I would think that people are going to “wake up” and say they’ve had enough of this, but I’m beginning to lose faith in even that.

Truth be told, I really believe that, so long as people are fed and entertained, they’ll accept almost anything. And that’s what worries me. I worry that we’ve lost track of what America is really about and why this country is so special. It’s why I believe we’re headed for collapse.

The way I see it, we’re not entirely collapsing because of debt, though it is a huge problem, or even because of COVID or a difference in political ideology. We’re collapsing because we’ve lost our identity as a nation. We no longer believe in “Untied We Stand, Divided We Fall,” which is why we’re ultimately doomed as a nation. It’s why I believe we’re in the middle of a collapse, and that there’s little the average citizen, like you and I, can do about it except to prepare ourselves now.

I don’t like being so doom and gloom, not at all. To believe that “all is lost” really sucks. But I also feel that we, as preppers, need to ride this one out so that like-minded patriots can be around to truly “build back better” as the elites like to say. I don’t have all the answers, and I can’t predict the future, but I can say one thing for certain: those who fail to prepare, prepare to fail. And failing to prepare for the coming collapse could be the biggest mistake you’ll ever make.

God Bless all of us.