What Civil Collapse Looks Like

**wrm** · 03-05-2010, 10:14

PDB says

Rome didn’t burn in a day. History isn’t granular, digital transition but decidedly analog. Frogs in slowly warming baths may find the situation familiar.

It starts with Bob across the street losing his job, then your cousin, then you think nothing about collecting beer cans or running a roadside vegetable stand in order to make your credit card payments. Humans naturally and constantly recalibrate their definition of normalcy in order to stay sane in a fluid universe, and the expected level of civil service is one of them.

Polite, efficient and responsive policing is a luxury that can only be afforded by states not drowning in politically motivated entitlement spending. The rest of the world gets by with surly, low paid constables and paper-checkers who exist to serve the needs of the state and not the citizenry, and sooner rather than later, we will find out what that’s like here.

http://www.papadeltabravo.com/blog/?p=1115

**Bushboy** · 03-05-2010, 11:07

WRM, that link doesent work, well at least from my computer.

**Paul** · 03-05-2010, 12:17

Originally Posted by Bushboy

WRM, that link doesent work, well at least from my computer.

Your clockwork PC needs some rewinding...

**Bushboy** · 03-05-2010, 12:21

Originally Posted by Paul

Your clockwork PC needs some rewinding...

Ok that was the problem

Just inserted key and started winding. Works much better now, thanks

**gunsports** · 04-05-2010, 15:57

It's one thing to read of a society/country going to hell. It's another to live through it!

**Crimefree** · 10-05-2010, 16:43

Originally Posted by gunsports

It's one thing to read of a society/country going to hell. It's another to live through it!

Er! if you pardon the point. I don't think WRM was trying to discuss it but warning exactly about "trying to live through it". You can't, the options are do something about it or suffer the consequences. There is no option of denial.

SA is now rated 7/10 on the genocide scale.

Disarmament is the precursor of every genocide. There are no exceptions.

Disarmament in a democracy can only take place with public consent.