1978 America looked about the same, and 1933 was worse. There was a bad depression in the 1870s at some point as well. America pulled back from the brink then, and can do so again. Granted, maybe it won't happen this time, but 3x before it has at least.
I don't really disagree with any of what you're saying, and I'm prepping in a limited way.
My point is that, while civilizational collapses do happen historically, and often enough it's not an outlier event, that the modern industrialized world is networked and on autopilot in such a way that it takes years for the zombies to fall apart. Witness South Africa after the end of white rule, which is still tottering onward without mass starvation yet, though it did turn into a shithole. Hell, even if, say, the dollar collapses tomorrow, an all white place like Vermont will have a much easier time of things than Chicago.
1978 America looked about the same, and 1933 was worse. There was a bad depression in the 1870s at some point as well. America pulled back from the brink then, and can do so again. Granted, maybe it won't happen this time, but 3x before it has at least.
I don't really disagree with any of what you're saying, and I'm prepping in a limited way.
My point is that, while civilizational collapses do happen historically, and often enough it's not an outlier event, that the modern industrialized world is networked and on autopilot in such a way that it takes years for the zombies to fall apart. Witness South Africa after the end of white rule, which is still tottering onward without mass starvation yet, though it did turn into a shithole. Hell, even if, say, the dollar collapses tomorrow, an all white place like Vermont will have a much easier time of things than Chicago.