I Feel Like Sarah Connor! - Part 2 of 2

The Perfect Storm

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That is, of course, the trailer for the movie ‘The Perfect Storm’.  It’s the story of six fishermen who risk their lives…..for fish.  (Hmmmm).  Anyway, in the movie they confront a storm created by nature; the “perfect storm” describes how several things coincide to create horrific weather conditions. The storm we are currently having just a glimpse of is man-made.

Politics and Politicians

Politicians have been playing this pathetic game of controlling people with force or money for hundreds of years.  So what’s so different now?  There are several things that have culminated in the very dangerous situation the world is now in.

I’m not going to go into the religious aspects, other than to say people have varying views about how to live life and what happens after death……….and these views vary (even WITHIN a SINGLE religion) so much, that millions of people have died horribly, or lived miserably, because of these differing views.  That is NO exaggeration  Religion is NOT what my blog is about, though religion WILL play its part in what has started to happen in the world; it always does.

What Will Happen

The storm I’m referring to is the depression that we are now in; you know, the one that everybody is pretending isn’t happening. The storm has started as a FINANCIAL issue.  Both the previous world wars STARTED as financial issues.  After several months of deflation (nobody knows for sure how long the deflationary depression will last, but most likely somewhere between 12 months and two years) the storm will then follow the historical course of:

1. Hyperinflation (due to overprinting money). This means outrageously expensive food, gas, utilities etc.

2. Increased taxes (hey, they have offices to run too you know!)

3. Protests

4. Riots

5. Massive crime (already on the increase).  Most likely burglaries, muggings, auto-theft initially

6. An underground market in goods of all kinds

7. Unofficial currency trading (as currencies fail, some will seem more attractive than others)

8. Unofficial bartering (as currencies fail)

9. Civil unrest generally

What happens after this is anybody’s guess, but historically, to bring a country back together as a unified entity, politicians typically take “their” countries to war.  Who with?  Anybody will do.

Putting Out the Fire

Continually printing money to solve the financial problems is a lot like using gasoline to extinguish a fire.  The very thing that CAUSED the problem (an unsustainable lifestyle based on money that didn’t really exist because it was borrowed or printed) cannot possibly be the solution to that problem.

Don’t Shoot the Messenger!

While I am not happy about the way things WILL go (I keep telling my wife what to expect and I’ve been right every time for the past year and 8 months; really, not ONE miss yet!) please don’t stop reading my posts just because it isn’t full of all the fun fluffy stuff.  I tell you these things to prepare you, not to frighten you.

Learn New Skills

You need warning so that you can prepare yourself; you still have time to learn new skills.  You CAN learn how to make money online.  People will need advice.  Do you know what foods can be found in the countryside FREE of charge?  Do you know how to secure a house?  Do you know how to generate electricity from nothing? Do you know how to use herbs and other plants as cures for infections, headaches etc?

If you want to know how to FIND people who already have problems that they want solutions to, ‘Desperate Buyers Only’ is the best book I’ve ever read on the subject, and well worth the purchase price.

All of these skills and THOUSANDS more will be saleable online (or TRADEABLE). If you can type it or record it, you can make a pdf book or audio and offer it for sale on your blog or other website.  You can even record what is happening on your computer screen and sell that.

The world is changing RAPIDLY and nobody can stop what is about to happen.

Market Adjustment

I’m not viewing the coming storm as something that you can’t cope with, though it WILL be very, VERY unpleasant for most people.  Instead I think of it more as a market adjustment.  Like the stock market, the world is going to go through an adjustment.  It won’t be nice, but it is necessary.  Prepare yourself.  It all starts with your THINKING.

Get your thinking right and everything else will follow.

Luke.