Suspicious0bservers report 2/8/17

[APeacefulWarrior]

Respectfully,

The historical record is not an accurate representation of the current situation.  

Of course you're entitled to your own beliefs.  For my part, I'm storing a lot of shelf-stable food and preparing as I see fit.  If those precautions prove to be unfounded I can donate what I have to charity.

OK, but you're not giving me any reason to believe otherwise, either. Why is it do you think that now is the time that humans all over the world would suddenly prefer to roll over and die -or watch their families die- instead of going after the government and\or oligarchs? I mean, we're not talking about complicated social phenomenon here. We're talking about the human animal in its most primal sense, fighting to live. This basic impulse has shown itself over and over and over and over throughout history.

And moreover, why do you believe that the governments are aware of this shift in attitude to such an extent that they would knowingly and deliberately allow widespread misery to occur, without doing anything to try to prevent or alleviate it?

Not to mention, it's not like the rich and elite could somehow maintain society all by themselves in the event of a collapse. Power plants need workers. Power plants need energy sources. Energy sources need workers making them available. Those workers need roads, and food, and clothing. Roads and food and clothing which need the power sources to continue being made and maintained. Etc. This isn't even sociology, it's just the basic facts of how modern society functions. Knock away even a few of those "legs" and the whole system would collapse quickly due to its interconnected/interdependent nature. That would be as bad for the rich as everyone else.

So why in the world would a government NOT act to prevent such collapse from occurring by helping keep the public -and therefore society- relatively stable?

(And, again, I just want to point out that all of this is predicated on a very unlikely series of events happening in the first place that would make such questions relevant.)