The smell of collapse

This is what Collapse looks 

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This, from Facebook really spoke to me:

I have just being involved with a thread on a different group and one of my replies was........can anyone possibly imagine for 1 second the unparralled and unprecedented suffering people are going to go through?.........this was one of the answers and it shook me to the core......

“Yes, actually I can. I was in Africa earlier this year, a nation on the leading edge of collapse, and witnessed first hand a hopeless dystopian environment of unimaginable wealth literally next door to abject poverty and suffering.

The country, it’s leaders and each soul I saw literally did not care. They existed to grab whatever grains of subsistence they could grasp. Rich and poor.

The smell of sickness and death was thick and I was aghast that no action was taken despite a clearly capable infrastructure. But no one with power/ability cared to take action, they’d rather watch their own people suffer.

The sights, sounds, smells and emotional toll will never leave me. The vast majority of us in the affluent west have absolutely no clue what’s coming.

We’d rather bicker about politics, iPhones and sports teams.And wealth, more accurately relative wealth, simply provides a buffer/insulation for a period of time.

Eventually everyone falls in this scenario. History predicts what’s happening now.

Rome is burning and the elites continue to proceed with BAU while lower classes suffer.

While potentially avoidable, I fully expect a violent end to most western nations"