tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578125528475198742.post3972601535783499721..comments2023-05-11T03:06:59.054-07:00Comments on The Well Run Dry: Thoughts On Not Needing The MoneyTH in SoChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00483293929968668475noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578125528475198742.post-45815875608667038722009-02-02T17:44:00.000-08:002009-02-02T17:44:00.000-08:00Here's a comment from Kiashu, a fellow blogger fro...Here's a comment from Kiashu, a fellow blogger from Australia whose concerns are similar to mine. His blog is <I>Green With A Gun</I>. He writes:<BR/><BR/>"I think you're a bit premature in preparing for utter collapse. I realise it may not look that way in the US right now, but these systems - as good or bad as they are - have quite a lot of resilience.<BR/><BR/>"This is especially true since you elected Obama, who is to US capitalism what Gorbachev was to Soviet communism - the one who hopes by minor reforms to save the system as a whole. Having McCain in would have been like having the August 1991 Soviet plotters succeed in their coup d'etat - he would have damaged things royally and totally discredited the system. Obama will by CPR keep the terminal patient going for a while longer yet.<BR/><BR/>"In addition, the world will try to help avoid US collapse, mainly out of compassion but also self-interest. History shows that empires under stress strike out violently, if only out of nostalgia. "Be it thy course, my Harry," was said to Henry V by his father, "to giddy minds with foreign quarrels; that action hence borne out may waste the memory of the former days." The US appears to be no exception, and so it's too dangerous for the rest of the world to let the US fail. We'll keep buying your bad debts to prop up your rotten economy a while longer - but we might charge a price in military withdrawals and political concessions, as the world did with the USSR.<BR/><BR/>"Don't get in your bunker with your spam and ammo just yet.<BR/><BR/>"On the other hand, some things are good things to do anyway, like grow your food and know your neighbours."TH in SoChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483293929968668475noreply@blogger.com