Sustainability=Resilience, Resilience=Sustainability

“those with great wealth have captured the for-sale machinery of governance, and “persuaded” the Central State to carve out quasi-monopolies and cartels that enable artificially high premiums. They also buy subsidies, exceptions and tax breaks for their income streams.” “The financial and political Aristocracy will continue to do more of what’s failed because they have no alternative model that leaves their power and wealth intact.” – Charles Hugh Smith

Quit thinking in terms of total collapse, and start focusing on personal independence.  Become resilient and become free from the artificially high costs that dependence on the current systems enables.  The reason people resist becoming resilient is because they worship convenience.  We have become over-dependent on single source systems, and dependence is not liberty!  Liberty is one of the foundational and fundamental pillars of America.  It is intrinsic in the definition of America.  America is supposed to be the land of the free, and I for one don’t want to be enslaved.