I just succumbed to some msn click bait entitled "The super rich are preparing for the end of the world." (Whatever happened to capitalized words in titles, anyway?) It was about what you'd expect, but there was one quote which caught my eye:
"I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now." - Antonio García Martínez (Who has written a book with the title Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley. Yep, it's already on my LFPL request list. Ebook version, of course. More news on that as it happens.)
And I've thought about that end of the world shit myself on occasion. I'll even confess to having given a bit of thought to purchasing a gun. Because I think Antonio (may I call you Antonio?) is right. We are skating on the thin ice of modern life. And we shouldn't be surprised if a crack in the ice appears under our feet . . . and we fall through thin ice.
But you know . . . my chances of survival are mighty slim. I can't forage, fight, or face the world without electricity. So I think I'm just going to hope for the best and stay gunless.
Though I still wouldn't mind living in an abandoned missile silo if there happened to me one available.
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