I am trying to Build a Cult of One Thousand True Believers
I believe that the world as we know it is about to
face a crisis unlike anything it has ever faced before. I belive this
based upon mountains of research from a vast army of experts, far
smarter than I, doing detailed painstaking research
over time periods longer than I have been alive in some cases. I
believe we are about to taxed as Rome in the face of the Barbarian
invasions, and Britain as it's empire faded.
And I do not believe that the modern
interconnected, interfragile globalized world is ready for this test. I
believe, based on everything I have seen, that our world will fail this
test.
And I want to be one of the people to profit from
this failure, in as much as any of us can be expected to profit from
what will surely be the biggest upset of the last ten thousand years. I
expect the world to turn upside down, and I want
to be ready for it. And, I want to bring a tribe of like minded people
along for the ride.
I am not foolish enough to think that I can profit
from the end of the world on my own. I know that I need a team of smart
and likeminded people who can help me survive and whom I can help in
return.
Global climate change is altering weather and
rainfall. Peak Oil is taking fossil fuel markets (and other financial
markets as well) on a wild rollercoaster ride with no good ending. Less
prosperous nations are struggling to maintain their
legitimacy in the eyes of those that they govern. Pollution is running
wild and unchecked. More species are going extinct now than in any
period of geologic history not listed as a mass extinction event.
I don't plan to try and convince you of any of
this. There are plenty of better books to do that. I'm not interested.
I'm interested in finding a tribe, people interested and will to work
with me on this idea. To research ways of surviving
and thriving in a likely inevitable post apocalyptic future of
uncertain shape and form.
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