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The world has been living on borrowed time since at least 2006. The 2008 financial crisis should have been the end. But we sold our souls to the devil to delay the 'Day of Reckoning,' to continue this euphoric drunken debt orgy for a little while longer. Nothing whatsoever got solved since 2008. Well, now the devil has come to collect. All that borrowed time we've been living on must be paid back, in full, with interest, at loan shark rates. Those "good times" we've enjoyed from 2010-2020 will come at a terrible price.
The longer the Day of Reckoning is delayed, the larger and more cataclysmic it will be when it finally does happen. There's no escaping what we have coming to us, and trying to postpone it further will only make it more severe. We're now living in a highly troubled time in history, not unlike the period of time from 1913-1945, except this time, we've got far more to lose. This time, the level of unsustainabilty is far greater. We are far more vulnerable, and far less able to withstand any sort of hardship. Everything now is far worse than it was back then, and so too will the coming crises. Two major global crises in just two years, who could have seen that coming? And we're only getting started....
I admit, I was very wrong about the Russia-Ukraine debacle, just as I was very wrong about Covid. I thought Covid was going to be basically another iteration of the Swine Flu, and I thought the Russia-Ukraine debacle was going to be nothing more than posturing and at most some skirmishes here and there. Things are turning out to be far worse than even I expected.
The OP is right, its natural for most people to do anything they can, to say its not accurate though, that is just human nature.
Go back in time to April 14, 1912, and board the Titanic. Tell the people on board that the Titanic is going to sink, and you'll get three types of responses
1. The hyper-complacent and incredulous, ie the vast majority. They'll tell you "what? the Titanic sinking? Have you gone mad? Don't you know that this ship is unsinkable? Absolutely unsinkable. So why don't you doomsday loonies go take a hike, and let us enjoy our drinks."
2. The deer in the headlights, who just don't know how to respond to that information.
3. The receptive, a small minority. They'll say "ok. How can I maximize my chances of survival, how many lifeboats are there, etc."
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