You're queer. So what, Jessica? As far as our little community here, you're family. 🫂 Anyone who cares doesn't belong here.
I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but...Collapse happens slowly, then all at once. Petroleum products are likely to be one of the most immediate concerns. Food and other essentials shortages will come a little later. Gasoline and diesel runs everything. My sources* are telling me that unless the SoH is opened in the next three to four weeks, we'll see refineries starting to shut down. That's a HUGE deal. It takes a lot of time (like years) and effort to get one running again. If nothing changes within the next month, we could well see $10+/gal unleaded gas nationwide. I don't want to even think about diesel and Jet-A.
*One favorite is Malcolm Nance - Black Man Spy on Substack. He's a retired US Navy intelligence officer. He hosts with a Danish intelligence officer and a geopolitical analyst. It's like getting a college degree in those fields. A paid subscription is like sitting in a real military intelligence briefing every morning at 0800 Central. He's been extraordinarily accurate through Operation Epic Fuckup. His podcast has affected my plans more than once.
Yep, Nance is another good example of someone who has been warning us the whole time. I like our community here, and the ideas we trade. As for driving around looking for farmers to sell me taters if there’s a famine, I think I’ll put a pin in that. :)
Yes, Nance has been warning for a long time. First became aware of him on a superior NPR station, also Scott Ritter. When people who are or were part of the military industrial complex speak up, we should pat attention. Good luck seeing that content on MSM.
All at once seems imminent. And yeah, we love Jessica. I can think of way more than one hetero I wish dead. Epstein list would be a good start, but just a scratch on the surface.
How many understand the immediacy of our peril expedited by the Iran War, a deliberate strategy to hasten the demise of most, the "eaters" as Kissinger referred to us?
Every policy of the Trump administration has been about murder from cutting SNAP, dismantling the EPA, attacking healthcare, and declaring outright war on the environment. Farm bankruptcies have been soaring for the last four years. Affording food, if available is poised to be the next issue.
Absolutely no one in my personal life sees this shit, but I am glad to be a neurodivergent mouse. I have no plans to fight what is coming. I won't be fighting for a can of beans in the supermarket or shot by a marauder for the tomatoes in my garden, no insult to you, my circumstances are different.
The oligarchs will nurse this crap along, but will be surprised by their fall, in which they eat each other, rats in their "utopia."
Yes, I fear that is the hidden plan, cause an economic crisis so that assets can be purchased by the broligharcs pennies on the dollar in an attempt to keep the machine going, and aim for depopulation of the developing world through famine. Redistricting and gerrymandering could render elections useless and palantir would assist in keeping the disaffected at bay.
If one is able to put themselves in the shoes of deluded wannabe gods thinking of controlling dwindling world resources, there is logic here that's difficult to deny. Culling the population and reducing it to sycophants and those controllable through fear and creating a closed ecosystem of disinformation is the goal.
Pretty powerful article. I occupy a weird space where I know/believe all these bad things are happening but am repeatedly called overly pessimistic/told it’ll never happen. Yet, the people around me are into gardening, listen to me when I tell them about supply chain shocks, and want to increase their self sufficiency.
This is all to say that this article resonated in certain aspects, and I’m happy with the progress made even if my family and I will never be “serious” preppers. My biggest challenge is getting rid of my internet addiction and focusing on important things. Unfortunately I fall victim to the famine/nuclear war/whatever articles all the time. I appreciate your book though and the time you’re taking to write it!
With that being said, there are some articles related to war that I appreciate because it’s just their reasoning about why they think it’ll happen without the issues you’re referencing in this article. It’s just hard to sift through the slop to find those.
As a fiction writer, I am very tempted to write about what happens to the guy who meets up with his relatives at the 120-acre farm during an economic apocalypse. Maybe I'll even call it, "The 120-acre Farm."
Very astute! My failsafe plan is moving us back in with family, an absolute last resort. We get along fine seeing each other a couple times a year. If we lived together, we would be at each other's throats constantly.
Maybe the survival bros are the result of the hundreds of tv shows and movies made over the past 80 years about the last people on Earth. Even when they’re being chased by zombies or aliens these movies still manage to make collapse seem freeing, thrilling and even by the ending sometimes peaceful.
In reality the collapse we’re facing is filthy, boring, traumatizing and unevenly distributed.
I'm spending 8 weeks looking at art in Paris and France, and one thing you recognize from all this accumulation of beauty and treasure and commissioning of royal portraits is that the apocalypse has always been with us. The number of rises and falls of kingdoms and sects and nations in the past 1000 years is astonishing, just in Europe. Empires fall, life continues. And some people feel more important if they live in end times; others feel more important proclaiming end times.
By way of thanks, sharing a great radio show by an academic who studies collapse. It's about collapses past, and what they can (and can't) tell us about future collapses, their causes and effects: Luke Kemp of the Center for the smStudy of Existential Risk at Canbridge, and author of Goliath's Curse: the History and Future of Societal Collapse: https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=477098
Hey Jasmine, glad you have nice neighbors. Just a thought as someone who also has an extensive garden: they would probably welcome any help you can spare, even one hour a week, to weed, haul compost, whatever. You and they will feel much better about sharing if/when the time comes!
I appreciate you. You have put in an incredible amount of effort to be ahead of the curve. You have knowledge, effort, practice. Suddenly the " rest" are seeing the looming collapse you have been writing about for years. And.. unfortunately they YELL. They use AI to generate flashy information. It's hard to see the things you have been calmly and meticulously preparing for being sudden yanked to the surface with such self assured language derived from confessed use of LLM's. Is AI right? Who knows. I fell for it. I read that article and went wow, I should share it. Other people I respect have shared it as well. You are correct. This is NOT the way. I deleted my re-share and took a breath. Thank you -A
I was in the same boat, was nodding along with the article and sort of giving into the halo effect of it having so many likes, then got to the "advice" part and then reread the whole thing in light of the very bad advice at the end. There's great content on here that talks about the threats we're facing, and it's getting really aggravating to see what the algorithms continue to push, just the dumbest takes on...everything.
I know of whom this is written about as I read his Substack. At first I was very alarmed and spoke to my other half. His predictions are bases upon current events, and there are some problems with some of his information. The most glaring is that 15 to 20% of oil goes through the strait. Where does the rest come from? Question not answered. So 80% is may be somewhat impacted by this military fiasco. Or not. For the time being, I am ignoring everything about this because no one knows the truth, deals with it on a daily basis, and no one is coming to the table wanting to resolve the issue.
The author said stop paying credit cards, mortgages, car payments and stock up. This advice is seriously wrong. You want to pay for housing, think of these things as peace of mind. We have all cut back on spending because life. Yup groceries have gone up, gas has gone up, medical costs up, and we are switching around our disposable money. But we have always done that. We the middle part of incomes, locations, education have ALWAYS figures out, pivoted, made things work. People are using food banks, church pantries, we work within our groups, communities to stay alive. We laugh, cry, and do the best we can. For a lot of us we have experienced similar events in our lifetime and survived.
So find resources locally that you can tap into, help you out. You are not alone. This existential crap I’d BS. It also is sold as enlightenment, faith, and insider info, very dubious.
Ohhhhhhh, you done messed up now, J Dubs! The ever vague advice to engage in “community building” is like a sacred cow in the collapse aware info-sphere. ALL the adults in the room prescribe it. They’ll scoff at the idea of going it alone, but they’ll offer you precisely zero pearls of actionable wisdom about how to build a community that doesn’t want to be built. Please gurus, tell me how to convince MY WIFE that it’s time to head for the hills. Surely she’ll listen to you…I’m just not properly following the prepare-for-the-end-of-civilization community buiding manual.
Kudos to you for having the guts to bring this to people’s attention.
It almost feels like the doomer version of hope peddling. “The opposite of hope is DESPAIR so we must push the hope no matter what!” That’s touted as very obvious common sense which justifies all manner of bullshittery. “Solo homesteading is IMPOSSIBLE so we must build community no matter what!” It has “truthiness” to it and has become the mantra of all the serious folks. But much like hope
peddling, the actual real world results make it clear it ain’t so simple. And the notion that it’s obvious common sense frays under scrutiny.
Well phrased. You hit the nail on the head: Trying to build a community that doesn't want to be built, that exists mainly in people's imaginations, and falls apart the second you ask them to do something like put on an N95 mask.
You're queer. So what, Jessica? As far as our little community here, you're family. 🫂 Anyone who cares doesn't belong here.
I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but...Collapse happens slowly, then all at once. Petroleum products are likely to be one of the most immediate concerns. Food and other essentials shortages will come a little later. Gasoline and diesel runs everything. My sources* are telling me that unless the SoH is opened in the next three to four weeks, we'll see refineries starting to shut down. That's a HUGE deal. It takes a lot of time (like years) and effort to get one running again. If nothing changes within the next month, we could well see $10+/gal unleaded gas nationwide. I don't want to even think about diesel and Jet-A.
*One favorite is Malcolm Nance - Black Man Spy on Substack. He's a retired US Navy intelligence officer. He hosts with a Danish intelligence officer and a geopolitical analyst. It's like getting a college degree in those fields. A paid subscription is like sitting in a real military intelligence briefing every morning at 0800 Central. He's been extraordinarily accurate through Operation Epic Fuckup. His podcast has affected my plans more than once.
Yep, Nance is another good example of someone who has been warning us the whole time. I like our community here, and the ideas we trade. As for driving around looking for farmers to sell me taters if there’s a famine, I think I’ll put a pin in that. :)
Yes, Nance has been warning for a long time. First became aware of him on a superior NPR station, also Scott Ritter. When people who are or were part of the military industrial complex speak up, we should pat attention. Good luck seeing that content on MSM.
All at once seems imminent. And yeah, we love Jessica. I can think of way more than one hetero I wish dead. Epstein list would be a good start, but just a scratch on the surface.
Excellent, brutal post.
How many understand the immediacy of our peril expedited by the Iran War, a deliberate strategy to hasten the demise of most, the "eaters" as Kissinger referred to us?
Every policy of the Trump administration has been about murder from cutting SNAP, dismantling the EPA, attacking healthcare, and declaring outright war on the environment. Farm bankruptcies have been soaring for the last four years. Affording food, if available is poised to be the next issue.
Absolutely no one in my personal life sees this shit, but I am glad to be a neurodivergent mouse. I have no plans to fight what is coming. I won't be fighting for a can of beans in the supermarket or shot by a marauder for the tomatoes in my garden, no insult to you, my circumstances are different.
The oligarchs will nurse this crap along, but will be surprised by their fall, in which they eat each other, rats in their "utopia."
Yes, I fear that is the hidden plan, cause an economic crisis so that assets can be purchased by the broligharcs pennies on the dollar in an attempt to keep the machine going, and aim for depopulation of the developing world through famine. Redistricting and gerrymandering could render elections useless and palantir would assist in keeping the disaffected at bay.
If one is able to put themselves in the shoes of deluded wannabe gods thinking of controlling dwindling world resources, there is logic here that's difficult to deny. Culling the population and reducing it to sycophants and those controllable through fear and creating a closed ecosystem of disinformation is the goal.
Yep, on point. I always appreciate your comments and insights. These are rough times, and it's still just the beginning.
It is just the beginning, but the question becomes one of speed I think.
Hemingway's words seem to apply here, "Gradually and then suddenly." So many issues are converging now.
Pretty powerful article. I occupy a weird space where I know/believe all these bad things are happening but am repeatedly called overly pessimistic/told it’ll never happen. Yet, the people around me are into gardening, listen to me when I tell them about supply chain shocks, and want to increase their self sufficiency.
This is all to say that this article resonated in certain aspects, and I’m happy with the progress made even if my family and I will never be “serious” preppers. My biggest challenge is getting rid of my internet addiction and focusing on important things. Unfortunately I fall victim to the famine/nuclear war/whatever articles all the time. I appreciate your book though and the time you’re taking to write it!
With that being said, there are some articles related to war that I appreciate because it’s just their reasoning about why they think it’ll happen without the issues you’re referencing in this article. It’s just hard to sift through the slop to find those.
As a fiction writer, I am very tempted to write about what happens to the guy who meets up with his relatives at the 120-acre farm during an economic apocalypse. Maybe I'll even call it, "The 120-acre Farm."
Or, more realistically, "The Bone Temple."
Very astute! My failsafe plan is moving us back in with family, an absolute last resort. We get along fine seeing each other a couple times a year. If we lived together, we would be at each other's throats constantly.
Great piece as always.
Maybe the survival bros are the result of the hundreds of tv shows and movies made over the past 80 years about the last people on Earth. Even when they’re being chased by zombies or aliens these movies still manage to make collapse seem freeing, thrilling and even by the ending sometimes peaceful.
In reality the collapse we’re facing is filthy, boring, traumatizing and unevenly distributed.
Yep, no exciting Walking Dead stuff to be had. It's going to be much more like satire.
I like this piece. Shifting one’s mindset, living with joy and as responsibly (prepping) as one is able has always been a smart choice.
The same with the expectations racket. It’s a racket, a lie.
As for the cadre of prognosticators and experts in most everything imaginable - f’em.
Mumbling, I mumble…sorry.
Have a great day, great piece of writing. You seem a good person.
Fist bump. :)
I'm spending 8 weeks looking at art in Paris and France, and one thing you recognize from all this accumulation of beauty and treasure and commissioning of royal portraits is that the apocalypse has always been with us. The number of rises and falls of kingdoms and sects and nations in the past 1000 years is astonishing, just in Europe. Empires fall, life continues. And some people feel more important if they live in end times; others feel more important proclaiming end times.
Thank you for the mention :)
Well-deserved! 👍
I second that. :)
By way of thanks, sharing a great radio show by an academic who studies collapse. It's about collapses past, and what they can (and can't) tell us about future collapses, their causes and effects: Luke Kemp of the Center for the smStudy of Existential Risk at Canbridge, and author of Goliath's Curse: the History and Future of Societal Collapse: https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=477098
You have absolutely outdone yourself. This is one of the most powerful essays I have ever read. And as you know, I've read a few.
Thanks!
I'm very fortunate, my neighbors have a large garden. They're really sweet folks too.
Hey Jasmine, glad you have nice neighbors. Just a thought as someone who also has an extensive garden: they would probably welcome any help you can spare, even one hour a week, to weed, haul compost, whatever. You and they will feel much better about sharing if/when the time comes!
I have thought about it because I love gardening. Lol!
And you will love it even more if you help them a little. Thanks for your reply <3
Yep. You're welcome 😊
I appreciate you. You have put in an incredible amount of effort to be ahead of the curve. You have knowledge, effort, practice. Suddenly the " rest" are seeing the looming collapse you have been writing about for years. And.. unfortunately they YELL. They use AI to generate flashy information. It's hard to see the things you have been calmly and meticulously preparing for being sudden yanked to the surface with such self assured language derived from confessed use of LLM's. Is AI right? Who knows. I fell for it. I read that article and went wow, I should share it. Other people I respect have shared it as well. You are correct. This is NOT the way. I deleted my re-share and took a breath. Thank you -A
I was in the same boat, was nodding along with the article and sort of giving into the halo effect of it having so many likes, then got to the "advice" part and then reread the whole thing in light of the very bad advice at the end. There's great content on here that talks about the threats we're facing, and it's getting really aggravating to see what the algorithms continue to push, just the dumbest takes on...everything.
I know of whom this is written about as I read his Substack. At first I was very alarmed and spoke to my other half. His predictions are bases upon current events, and there are some problems with some of his information. The most glaring is that 15 to 20% of oil goes through the strait. Where does the rest come from? Question not answered. So 80% is may be somewhat impacted by this military fiasco. Or not. For the time being, I am ignoring everything about this because no one knows the truth, deals with it on a daily basis, and no one is coming to the table wanting to resolve the issue.
The author said stop paying credit cards, mortgages, car payments and stock up. This advice is seriously wrong. You want to pay for housing, think of these things as peace of mind. We have all cut back on spending because life. Yup groceries have gone up, gas has gone up, medical costs up, and we are switching around our disposable money. But we have always done that. We the middle part of incomes, locations, education have ALWAYS figures out, pivoted, made things work. People are using food banks, church pantries, we work within our groups, communities to stay alive. We laugh, cry, and do the best we can. For a lot of us we have experienced similar events in our lifetime and survived.
So find resources locally that you can tap into, help you out. You are not alone. This existential crap I’d BS. It also is sold as enlightenment, faith, and insider info, very dubious.
Ohhhhhhh, you done messed up now, J Dubs! The ever vague advice to engage in “community building” is like a sacred cow in the collapse aware info-sphere. ALL the adults in the room prescribe it. They’ll scoff at the idea of going it alone, but they’ll offer you precisely zero pearls of actionable wisdom about how to build a community that doesn’t want to be built. Please gurus, tell me how to convince MY WIFE that it’s time to head for the hills. Surely she’ll listen to you…I’m just not properly following the prepare-for-the-end-of-civilization community buiding manual.
Kudos to you for having the guts to bring this to people’s attention.
It almost feels like the doomer version of hope peddling. “The opposite of hope is DESPAIR so we must push the hope no matter what!” That’s touted as very obvious common sense which justifies all manner of bullshittery. “Solo homesteading is IMPOSSIBLE so we must build community no matter what!” It has “truthiness” to it and has become the mantra of all the serious folks. But much like hope
peddling, the actual real world results make it clear it ain’t so simple. And the notion that it’s obvious common sense frays under scrutiny.
Keep doing your thing. It’s much appreciated.
Well phrased. You hit the nail on the head: Trying to build a community that doesn't want to be built, that exists mainly in people's imaginations, and falls apart the second you ask them to do something like put on an N95 mask.
Bravo. Very nice work and your attitude is priceless. You go girl😇
Dham well said, Jessica! (As usual!)