Here is some good information on how to prepare for disastrous events. I can’t say I’ve done all these things, but one of the most important steps is to be mentally prepared. That means considering in some depth the possibility of events going seriously wrong. Thinking back to 9/11, most people couldn’t imagine what had happened. We suffered from a failure of imagination then. People walked around bewildered and stunned. Now many people in this country spend a great amount of time fearing the wrong things and preparing for events like being overrun by hordes of islamofascist terrorists. You know, it’s not the poor brown people from other countries to be afraid of, it’s the rich white guys right here at home that will throw us under the bus. Indeed, they already have. In addition, people commonly brush off anyone who tries to point out the perils and risks around us. The myth of American Exceptionalism lives yet, but it is a myth. Very Bad Things can happen here, and our leaders work diligently to make sure that they do. So it makes much more sense to prepare for the consequences of global warming, peak oil, economic instability, natural disasters, man-made disasters, etc.
I’m just saying.
