I think a return to that style of life is actually a good thing. Especially the making your own beer part.
Oh yeah, definitely. It’s nothing to be afraid of, that’s for sure.
I’m starting to suspect that a lot of this collapse fear you hear in the media is just the latest boogaboo to keep people running scared so that they are easily manipulated and fleeced. The War on Terra lasted for a little while and kept everyone good ‘n scared, then they tried to sell us Global Warming but that ain’t working so well since it is currently snowing in Dubai. There is also the old Peak Oil scenario, that one’s good too. Bottom line is, they trot this stuff out knowing that a bunch of geeks will read it on the internet and move their savings into gold or oil or euros or yen or whatever and then they make the market move the opposite way and run off with all the loot. I’m sure everyone here will tell me that I’m a fool and that the sky’s really falling and pretty soon Mad Max and the Humungous will be doing battle in an improvised Thunderdome in the Sports Arena but I’m not buying it. Is the economy crashing? Yep. Are we currently being ripped off? You betcha. Is the government inept, corrupt, and inefficient? No doubt. Are we all gonna die? Probably not.