Thank you for replying to my
post.

I'm just watching a TV program called "The Prophets of Doom" on
the History Channel. There are six experts from all fields,
financial, environment, energy, etc. who are talking about the
crisis we are in now as a country and drawing the parallels to
past civilizations and their demise. It's extremely important
that people do wake up before the dam has burst, so to speak. In
fact, one of them used a dam bursting as an example. People who
live several miles downstream from a dam about to rupture worry,
fret and try to do something to rectify it. Those a little
closer are not as worried, still are concerned, but don't really react in time. But those who
live the closest to it don't believe that anything will happen
and don't react at all. Their thinking, a protective reaction of
the brain that "it can't happen to me", don't say or do anything
because they trust that someone built the dam strong eno9ugh to
not rupture.

Our society is in a crisis in every form - financially,
politically and environmentally. But the basic thesis of their
discussion is that historically, people refuse to believe that
anything can or will happen to them because we are the biggest,
we are the strongest, we have everything and dominate by buying
and taxing. At some point our country, which one of them calls a
ponzi scheme, which will reach a point of insolvency in which we
cannot recover, and by definition, will collapse. This has been
shown to be true in every civilization that has risen to the
length and breadth that we have. However, due to the level of
our technology, our collapse will be different in that it will
not be able to recover due to the draining of our natural
resources and the fact that they cannot be replaced (oil, water,
etc.), the pollution of clean drinking water and food from
chemicals and pesticides, and the collapse of our financial
system, the most obvious one of all at the present that people
can relate to. Yet even with this knowledge a greater percentage
of the people still refuse to believe that this can or will
happen to us. They live closest to the dam and believe in the
politicians and government to take care of us.

This is a very interesting and relevant look at our forthcoming
political, financial and environmental collapse and the
discussion was much more than I could express here. I feel that
I live way downstream and I'm worried that those who live next
to the dam are not waking up fast enough to be able to get to
higher ground before the dam bursts and they drown.

Here are a few names of those involved in the discussion:
Michael Ruppert, Dr. Nathan Hagens, John Cronin, James Howard
Kunstler

And...another one bites the dust!