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In 2013 I thought that collapse was on the way, so I sold my land and house and bugged out from the South East. It still hasn't happened, and the signs that it will are pretty much as I saw them in 2013. I still think it's on the cards, but it's going to be a long slow descent. Most of my preparati...

I agree, not everyone is going to make it the easy way, those who leave it too late will be in a poor position. There is no easy way for everyone to move, just what is it your advocating? For the most part people will have to prepare, adjust, and collapse where we are. I could say more, but Greer h...

Lord Beria3 wrote: What next is a social collapse? Martial law and who knows?

Interesting times indeed!

I'm sure the Greeks are loving it A little compassion wouldn't go amiss.

:shock: traditionally you would read the riot act then if people didn't disperse within a hour you could kill them, gradually we have been getting softer and softer as a society till now we seem to feel sorry for rioters . When was this tradition most the order of the day? Do you think it's a good ...

kenneal - lagger wrote:

sweat wrote:So the last government we had was a different system? Missed that one

... and the point of the post as well although that was probably deliberate.

I'm not content for people to continue perpetuating lazy falsehoods which only distract from the real issues at hand.

Why does this system produce such endemic corruption and fraud? Why does the private sector get unbelievable amounts of taxpayers money that could be used for the creation of REAL jobs? How was this company able to operate for so long? Why is there so little accountability? It's not just this syste...

Music is simply losing because its overpriced crap. The vast majority of music is bought by young people. The first entertainment gadget kids got in their room was a radio/cassette Now most of them have HD TV and Sky multiroom. They bought music, when they had no other choice, as soon as they had a...

[ I think he's talking about how life appears to be a competition. We who live in affluent societies with plenty of resources don't see much of it but it's there bubbling away beneath the surface. You can see it in sport, in the spectators of sport. You can see it on motorways and car parks and eve...

I don't think Capitalism can fail as it is in line with natural laws and laws of human nature. Individual capitalist or even whole countries can fail as is allowed by these natural laws but the base principle is sound and will survive. Marxism on the other hand seeks to overcome human nature hence ...

Thank God they were privatised. I hate to think of the cost they'd have been otherwise. :lol: Well it's taxpayers' money that's being shovelled into their coffers to keep their share prices artificially high - a cost that wouldn't exist if they were still public - so don't be too thankful. I imagin...

kenneal - lagger wrote:The real problem is that some people take advantage of any system, be it banking or welfare payments. If you could stop the people who take advantage from doing so we could all live in peace.

And there's no difference in scale between the two...

:lol: Clearly a better quality of teaching required in Sweat's area irrespective of numbers. I guess pretty much every job today owes it's existence on our fossil fuel based wealth. Not sure quite what the point of the argument is though? Yes, Ludwig, didn't you know we hunt in packs? :wink: But le...

Yes, but, there's a link between our education system, biffvernon's teaching job and our wealth explosion due to fossil fuels. I believe there would have have been a lot less teachers around in Britain of old?

David Bohm - Thoughts as a System

Whats traditional, surely it depends how far back you're looking? Following emordinilap's point, is it not likely that taking together the people attracted to such religions, and the communities such closed-mindedness produces; that they may prevail in short-term survival periods before being left b...