Executive Summary

• The noose is tightening around the neck of the 99%
• Cutting through the "bullshit" data we're being deluged with
• The Easy Way to secure a better future for yourself
• Moving ahead with integrity

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The longer all this goes on, the harder it is to stay on point, remaining focused and keeping preparation efforts moving forwards.

Some of you have done all the preparing you plan to do, and find that “keeping abreast” of all the discouraging news comes at a price, and have wisely decided to limit your intake of new news to preserve your happiness and in the interest of preserving your energy for other important matters. I get it.

For everybody else this is all dragging on for much too long. Can’t we just get on with things already? How much more information do we really need that it’s time to stop doing a bunch of (self) harmful things, and begin doing a lot of other entirely new, and necessary things?

For example, stop attempting to grow at any cost and begin investing in regenerative and life-supporting activities?

However, for many the collapse has already arrived, it just hasn’t been called that yet in the newspapers and on TV, so people just lack the proper frame of reference. It’s really a matter of perspective.

For the people who are already struggling under mountains of student debt, or homelessness, or are unable to afford medical care, the collapse has already begun. For many, opportunities to advance have already evaporated and they are experiencing a slow, steady and out-of-control decent into a future of less.

What would we imagine a long-emergency style collapse to look like? Well, I would imagine that it would come with a slow erosion of dreams, a steady decline in the ability of the marginal, bottom-of-the-monetary-pyramid players to survive.

In other words, it would look like this:

Sadly, you can almost feel the collective shoulder shrug of the nation at this deplorable situation; “Wow, that’s terrible – shrug – but hey, what can you do?” People seem paralyzed by the circumstances and unable to mount an intelligent response.