{"id":28807,"date":"2017-12-13T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28807"},"modified":"2017-12-13T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:41:17","slug":"switzerland-is-prepared-for-civilizational-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28807","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland is Prepared for Civilizational Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline_area\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/12\/switzerland-prepared-civilizational-collapse.html\">Switzerland is Prepared for Civilizational Collapse<\/a><\/h3>\n<p id=\"headline_meta_info\" class=\"headline_meta\">More than any other country, Switzerland\u2019s ethos is centered around preparing for civilizational collapse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72476 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain1-300x287.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain1-300x287.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain1-768x735.jpg 768w, http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain1-1024x981.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/>All around Switzerland, for example, one can find thousands of water fountains fed by natural springs. Zurich is famous for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/search?biw=1280&amp;bih=570&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=Aa8vWoitDoGTsAevzJ7ACw&amp;q=zurich+fountains&amp;oq=zurich+fountains&amp;gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i19k1.84056.86676.0.86958.11.11.0.0.0.0.201.904.8j2j1.11.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.10.795...0j0i7i30k1j0i67k1j0i7i5i30k1.0.PGxF4bUZ-6M\">1200 fountains<\/a>, some of them quite beautiful and ornate, but it\u2019s the multiple small, simple fountains in every Swiss village that really tell the story. Elegant, yes, but if and when central water systems are destroyed these fountains are a decentralized and robust system for providing everyone with drinkable water.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss political system is also decentralized. If the central government fails, the Swiss might not even notice. The mountains and valleys also mean that Swiss towns and villages are geographically independent yet linked in a spider-web of robust connections.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72475 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain2-222x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain2-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain2-768x1039.jpg 768w, http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain2-757x1024.jpg 757w\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/>Despite being at peace since 1815, Switzerland is prepared for war. Swiss males (and perhaps females in the future) are required to serve in the military (those who cannot, pay a special tax) creating a robust reservoir of trained citizens ready to serve in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss have been tunneling the Alps for hundreds of years creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/hollow-moutains-exploding-bridges-switzerland-neutral-long\/\">innumerable secret hideaways<\/a> for people and stores.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a further example of how ridiculously well prepared the Swiss are for any and all threats, there are things like <em>hidden hydroelectric dams built inside of unmarked mountains<\/em> so that in the event of mass bombings, they\u2019ll still have electricity from these secret facilities. And, remember, these are the things the Swiss government has let us know about. It is thought that there are probably more fortifications and hidden goodies scattered about the country\u2019s landscape. (ital. added, AT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72474 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain3-225x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain3-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/2378nh2nfow32gm3mb25krmuyy.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fountain3-768x1024.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland is Prepared for Civilizational Collapse More than any other country, Switzerland\u2019s ethos is centered around preparing for civilizational collapse. All around Switzerland, for example, one can find thousands of water fountains fed by natural springs. Zurich is famous for its 1200 fountains, some of them quite beautiful and ornate, but it\u2019s the multiple small, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17479,17478,17476,150,1638,15199,17480,17477,775],"class_list":["post-28807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-alex-tabarrok","tag-bunkers","tag-civilizational-collapse","tag-collapse","tag-collapse-of-civilization","tag-decentralization","tag-marginal-revolution","tag-natural-spring-water","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28808,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions\/28808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}