thats a really good thesis you pose Raymundo.
IF, you posit to friends, what you see, or give them sound advice, on sound currency, most wont listen. You know that.
and when the rubber meets the road, meaning there are no other means of SOUND wealth storage, PM's, a person just coming to the party, will find the door barred, the shelves bare.
and ESPECIALLY when its your inner circle..."he's paranoid"....."oh there he goes again"...sure you've heard that before.
Bama brings up an interesting question, "how many actually HOLD"?...admit to nothing. in the city, i used to be a PM "evangelist". But up here, where the population density is 7 people a sq mile and the county seat has 3500 souls, i say nothing, and walk around in ten dollar sneakers.
i read two things this morning that chilled my blood a bit, here's the first, its the conclusion to an article i'll link:
"We are literally witnessing the collapse of our entire entire borrow-and-consume paradigm, the aftereffects of which will not be pretty, complete with hyperinflationary depression, riots, starvation and bloodshed."
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http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/e ... e_04272012 )
now one could say, "oh just more palaber from the doomer cult"...and they'd have a point, because i've noticed in the prepper/doomer world a mindset akin to a dope addict....they "seek" out their drug, they revel in it, it becomes their WHOLE IDENTITY, and LIFE.
its a fine line to toe, a high wire act. How to be AWARE and yet maintain some form of elain, dash, and keep a grin and winsome attitude about yourself.
the article itself, we've read all the stats, it was the "starvation and bloodshed" ending that gave me pause, because as you pondered, so few are prepared, physically, but more mentally prepared. How do you tell a people who never known 3rd world type of want, "you're going to starve"?...when all that debit card is good for, is to scrap lichen off a rock so as to thicken nettle soup.
How will they act? well lets take a look:
Mall of America 26 Dec 2011...rough footage, bedlam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcxohwK1 ... re=relatedhere's a 15 minute(if you can bear it) "Black Friday 2011" compilation of what a post dollar world might look like in the urban centers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEb18fkA ... re=related(the TRULY DISTURBING thing about the above comp, is these people's bellies are FULL....imagine, when they're not.)
there are many many more of these truly soul crushing displays, of what we've become, and i would wager, that within these crazed crowds, personal PM ownership comes in at 0.0000000000001%...maybe, but what about GUN ownership, that might be a tad higher percentage, which is why when a top flight film director like Danny Boyle made the film "28 Days Later", you have to ask, does life imitate art? (or is it the other way around?)
but the most sinister thing i read and saw this morning was watching CNBC anchor Erin Burnett gleefully posing the question to Navy Post Grad school Prof. Jon Lipow, "What if we BANNED cash"?" the video on this page is a MUST WATCH, its sinister, and chilling in the total implication of what they say, and HOW they say it.
http://sgtreport.com/2012/04/cfr-member ... nned-cash/so, in between the witless mobs and the vile PTB, here am i, "stuck in the middle with you".