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Things Feel Bleak Because This Way of Life is Coming to an End
Things Feel Bleak Because This Way of Life is Coming to an End The Lesson of 2021 is Either We Change — or Things Collapse Around Us Here’s a tiny question. What is the lesson Covid is trying to teach us? As we settle in to a new normal, where Covid is going permanent, and […]
Welcome to the 21st Century Sequel of the Catastrophic 1600s
Welcome to the 21st Century Sequel of the Catastrophic 1600s As the chart below on ‘how systems collapse’ illustrates, the loss of stabilizing buffers goes unnoticed until the entire structure collapses under its own weight. Disruptive extremes of weather: check Rising geopolitical tensions with no diplomatic resolution: check Multiplying scarcities in essential commodities: check Domestic disorder accelerates as […]
Is Society Collapsing?
Is Society Collapsing? Abandoned passenger train car, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by modern […]
Demand For “Prepper Properties” Is Soaring As More People Seek Refuge From The Nightmare That Is Coming To America
Demand For “Prepper Properties” Is Soaring As More People Seek Refuge From The Nightmare That Is Coming To America In 2017 and 2018, most Americans were generally feeling pretty good about the future, and interest in “prepping” plummeted nationwide. But now things have changed. All of a sudden, demand for “prepper properties” is absolutely soaring, […]
‘Deaths Of Despair’ In The U.S. Hit Record High – So How Bad Will Things Get When Society Starts To Completely Collapse?
‘Deaths Of Despair’ In The U.S. Hit Record High – So How Bad Will Things Get When Society Starts To Completely Collapse? According to a shocking new report from the Commonwealth Fund, the suicide rate in the United States is the highest that it has ever been before. Sadly, the same thing can be said about […]
The End of the Line – A Climate in Crisis
The End of the Line – A Climate in Crisis Train Wreck, Montparnasse, 1895 The world of academia is starting to pick up on the concept that humanity is unknowingly cruising on a train ride to doomsday, a surefire encounter with collapse of society based upon climate crises brought on by exponential climate change. The […]
How To Recognize When Your Society Is Suffering A Dramatic Decline
How To Recognize When Your Society Is Suffering A Dramatic Decline When historians and analysts look at the factors surrounding the collapse of a society, they often focus on the larger events and indicators — the moments of infamy. However, I think it’s important to consider the reality that large scale societal decline is built […]
The Pendulum, Part Two–Hard Work, Bad Luck and Murphy’s Law
THE PENDULUM – PART TWO – HARD WORK, BAD LUCK AND MURPHY’S LAW Missing in the mix of hundreds of bug-out stories is a forth right and candid self appraisal of lessons learned containing practical experience along with deep humility and honest self examination. High Desert expressed a willingness to share his and his wife’s […]
Why Governments are Like an Ameba
Why Governments are Like an Ameba QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You may be called the legend because of your forecasts on so many levels, but it might also be because you have met with more governments than probably any economist or analyst. My question is simple. From your experience, do you believe you can prevent the […]
The Structure of Collapse: 2016-2019
The Structure of Collapse: 2016-2019 Leaders face a no-win dilemma: any change of course will crash the system, but maintaining the current course will also crash the system. The end-state of unsustainable systems is collapse. Though collapse may appear to be sudden and chaotic, we can discern key structures that guide the processes of collapse. Though […]
How Do You Know When Your Society Is In The Midst Of Collapse?
How Do You Know When Your Society Is In The Midst Of Collapse? As economic turmoil worldwide becomes increasingly apparent, We have been receiving messages from readers expressing some concerns on the public “perception” of collapse. That is to say, there are questions on the average person’s concept of collapse versus the reality of collapse. This […]
How Do You Recover From An Economic Collapse?
How Do You Recover From An Economic Collapse? The road to recovery from any type of societal collapse is largely dependent on the mechanism that caused the collapse. For this reason we need to determine what the likely cause of the collapse will be and have the appropriate equipment to fix the malfunction after it happens. […]
The Stupid Things People Do When Their Society Breaks Down
The Stupid Things People Do When Their Society Breaks Down A frequent mistake that many people make when considering the concept of social or economic collapse is to imagine how people and groups will behave tomorrow based on how people behave today. It is, though, extremely difficult to predict human behavior in the face of […]
Could the Post-Pandemic Chaos of ‘The Division’ Really Happen?
Could the Post-Pandemic Chaos of ‘The Division’ Really Happen? It starts on Black Friday, as shoppers storm high street stores in search of the next bargain. Little do they know that the hard-earned cash they’re spending carries something lethal. Within hours, as consumers mingle and move across town and country, a highly contagious virus has […]
