If I had to guess, I think the solutions that work will arise organically and (dare I say) prayerfully through response to events in real time. I don’t mean some forethought won’t happen, or that a sober understanding of the situation isn’t important. But the whole thing is just too vastly complex to make very specific plans ahead of time.
I do know people in my region who have bought land “up north” (as we say here), many hours drive from core population centres; and I know people who either already have farms or are trying to buy them. We’re talking anything from a couple of acres to a hundred acres with woods, lake front, cleared land, etc. I suppose this is a pre-emptive “head for the hills approach”. The problem is, if there is any great collapse, those people won’t be safe in their little house in the middle of nowhere. Indeed, they might even be safer staying, for instance, right in their own suburban neighbourhoods, and allying themselves with other neighbours who see the writing on the wall, and who can provide skills and services in a time of crisis (nursing, vehicle repair…even defense). It all sounds crazy, and one must be diligent not to get caught up in a paranoid mind set—or, on the other extreme, gullibility and complacency.
This seems right to me. A fine balance between survivalist paranoia and willful blindness/false optimism. There is no way to tell exactly how this will all this will go. It is far too complex to come up with some definitive plan to ensure making it "through"--whatever that turns out to mean. Though reasonable precautions can be made.
One of which is to deepen one's connections and relationships to those seeking purity of heart. A good thing to do regardless. Something I need to work on, to say the least.
St. Anthony of the Desert, Pray for us.
If I had to guess, I think the solutions that work will arise organically and (dare I say) prayerfully through response to events in real time. I don’t mean some forethought won’t happen, or that a sober understanding of the situation isn’t important. But the whole thing is just too vastly complex to make very specific plans ahead of time.
I do know people in my region who have bought land “up north” (as we say here), many hours drive from core population centres; and I know people who either already have farms or are trying to buy them. We’re talking anything from a couple of acres to a hundred acres with woods, lake front, cleared land, etc. I suppose this is a pre-emptive “head for the hills approach”. The problem is, if there is any great collapse, those people won’t be safe in their little house in the middle of nowhere. Indeed, they might even be safer staying, for instance, right in their own suburban neighbourhoods, and allying themselves with other neighbours who see the writing on the wall, and who can provide skills and services in a time of crisis (nursing, vehicle repair…even defense). It all sounds crazy, and one must be diligent not to get caught up in a paranoid mind set—or, on the other extreme, gullibility and complacency.
This seems right to me. A fine balance between survivalist paranoia and willful blindness/false optimism. There is no way to tell exactly how this will all this will go. It is far too complex to come up with some definitive plan to ensure making it "through"--whatever that turns out to mean. Though reasonable precautions can be made.
One of which is to deepen one's connections and relationships to those seeking purity of heart. A good thing to do regardless. Something I need to work on, to say the least.
Also: Watch and pray.