Prepping for Tuesday

Many, many years ago, my friend fearsclave turned me onto TEOTWAKI, or "The End of the World As We Know It" ("and I feel fiiiiine!"). At that time, he was concerned about Peak Oil and the collapse that would inevitably ensue. Being a lawyer, he was pretty convincing when talking about this stuff, and so I started to look into it myself, and that's when I found myself going down the rabbit hole of Doomsday Preppers.

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These days, I have come to my own conclusions about what TEOTWAKI will look like, and I am firmly on the side of "slow collapse," meaning that I think we're in for a long, grinding descent punctuated by dire precipitating events that will cause periods of acute worsening, followed by more periods of slow, agonizing grind in which we are somehow still expected to go to work and pay rent and act as if the world isn't on fire all around us, metaphorically and literally.

There was a satirical Tumblr post several years ago about this, or maybe Twitter, that was captioned something like: "We'll be four horsemen deep into the apocalypse and still going to work."

Boss: "Why were you late for work?"
Employee: "A lake of fire swallowed the freeway."
Boss: "I feel like you're not considering how this affects the team."

So it's all very depressing, but I don't want to just lie down and die, you know? So I'm trying within my limited capacity to prepare my little household for collapse, and also eventually I'd like to extend that to my more immediate community. 

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I think I've nattered enough about this for one day. I'll probably come back to it another time on a more granular level, energy and attention span permitting.