tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273667921618726479.post5240525161635999757..comments2023-10-30T02:54:13.416-05:00Comments on The Unruly Pedestrian: More Predictions for 2010 (and the years to come)Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11450663565387413916noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273667921618726479.post-24831159884200207582009-12-27T10:11:10.339-05:002009-12-27T10:11:10.339-05:00Hi, thanks for posting. I have faced the same exp...Hi, thanks for posting. I have faced the same experience many times. When saying that I don't think the economy will recover, I'm met with skepticism. "Things always get better" is the response I'm often given. The paradigm many people live in is that since the economy has always recovered in the past, that this will always be the case. That's one of the great liabilities of us humans: we become accustomed to things being the same (BAU, business as usual), so therefore can't envision things being different. <br /><br />I wish I had the persistence you do in continuing to get others to see the light. I've concluded that it's a total waste of time. I'm met with disbelief and clueless stares when talking about it. All I could do is do my best to prepare, physically and mentally.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11450663565387413916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273667921618726479.post-5302501062541908702009-12-26T11:05:00.084-05:002009-12-26T11:05:00.084-05:00You said: "many of us will see a fall in thes...You said: "many of us will see a fall in these lifestyles, and they might be quite drastic."<br /> Yesterday,(25th), our family was together, and we talked. Ten years ago I tried to warn them about the coming trouble to our economy and that the globalists were going to crash everything, including the stock market and try to bring everyones' wages down to rock bottom, plus other unbelievable (at that time) facts, and I was considered a real family whacko. "Can't happen!" "Are you one of those 'militia' whackos?" And so on. <br /> Yesterday, I was no longer the family whacko, (They're conceding on major points I made now.) but there still is disbelief that the future is going to radically change their life-styles to a degree that they won't recognize the America that has existed up until now. They still think (hope) that the economy will recover and life will go on as it has. (My long-distance trucking nephew thinks he's going to continue tohaul Chinese crap cross-country for the rest of his life. Comment: He might be hauling something, but not from the other side of the world and likely not from behind the wheel of truck that guzzles at 4 miles per gallon when oil/diesel becomes extremely expensive. This is near future.) <br /> I think that the best I can do with disbelievers (those in the fantasy mode) is to continue to warn that "you need to prepare for the future like this" and hope they remember what I suggested as a new mode of living.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com