Hi RE, I'm saddened at your plight, I hope good things for you, whatever you deem as good.
We're back in SW MO after a house flipping tour of the west coast these last 6 years to raise a little cash. Huddled up in a small town deep in red team territory now. We're on a 1/2ac town lot, big garden, a few chicks, some trees and small fruit. Missouri is about as far from built up as one can imagine in the US, so on the theory that it's better to collapse from a small height that a great one we're golden.
I've been reading some Turchin lately. Secular Cycles is along the lines of Strauss–Howe generational theory, but incorporating Malthus carrying capacity overshoot and maybe some closet marxism to boot. His hobby horse is "elite overproduction" or, to you and me, "not enough "rich" to go around" — even with wealth inequality growing by the day.
Upshot is not the Illuminaughty and the Great Reset enslaving the proles—they already did that — but the elites going toe to toe with each other which will be the cause of the collapse.
Peace to you
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