Dear Editor,
Prosperity has a way of lulling people to sleep and that is the perfect stage for our worst nightmare: “the breakdown of civil society as we have always known it.”
Thanks to elected officials who choose not to enforce the law, allow civil unrest (rioting and looting), and then set the wrong doers free without penalty of law, that breakdown has begun and I say to you that it is time for us to begin thinking the unthinkable.
It is only if we embrace the possibility of civil breakdown that we will make any attempt to be prepared for its consequences.
No one wants to think about it. It is unthinkable to embrace the reality that our society is breaking down before our very eyes. Hard as it may be to do, if you and your family are to survive you must recognize what is happening and prepare for it.
Here is our situation. Few people in our society (urban or rural) are self-sufficient. For decades we have, like little lemmings worked to get dollars and then with those dollars we buy all of our needs and wants.
We don’t grow our own vegetables. We buy them. We don't keep a cow, and milk it twice a day for our moo juice. We buy it. We don’t generate our own electricity. We buy it. It is the same for everything else that makes our lives go around: transportation, clothing, shelter, entertainment. We trade dollars for the stuff that makes our lives what they are.
No dollars, no stuff and if there is no stuff, our dollars are worthless.
Is it any wonder that politicians talk about job creation. Without jobs most Americans are dead in the water: no home, no car and no food. The tent cities that are flourishing in major metropolitan areas are in large part there because of joblessness.
Everyone of us should make thinking about the unthinkable, a weekly activity. If you do, you will find yourself making plans to be more prepared for the worst that could happen.
COVID-19 depleted the grocery shelves for a short time and it interrupted the manufacturing supply chain.
What if an event occurred that completely shut down the supply chain. How long could you feed your family? The broader question is “How would you feed your family?”
If reading this letter is making you feel uncomfortable, it should. That is what thinking the unthinkable is all about.
I have gone on record as saying that our nation is under the judgment of Almightly God. If I am correct, then things will get worse. The unthinkable will materialize before your very eyes. In fact I want to suggest that it already is materializing.
Corrupt and feckless politicians in Washington are making laws that are undermining our democratic republic. The fiscal decisions that are being made will bring on run-a-way inflation. Congress is allowing the president to rule by executive order. As a result we have no Southern border and most of us are still afraid of COVID-19.
It is not a pretty sight; but I hope for the sake of your family, you master the art of ‘thinking the unthinkable’. If you do, you will begin to prepare for the unknowable.
John Eubanks
Sarah, MS
