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BurnDoubt

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4. All this is just fine, as long as whatever the successor to our current reality...
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 04:05 PM
Monday

is a reality where law-and-order and ethics are the rubric.
In your dream, the bandits and warlords that fill the vacuum will TRADE with you for your resources, services and belongings.
In the REAL World, they will just cut your throat and take what’s now THEIRS.
If you have “Prepped” properly, you WILL be visited by unsavory characters with no compunctions about taking your life, wife, and stuff.
Watch “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” sometime, and notice the moment on Bogey’s face when he realizes his value has now dropped to the value of a worn-out pair of boots.
Then read “A Canticle For Liebowitz” and get a feeling for how it goes to re-build Civilization. (Glad to hear it’s having a resurgence in interest.)

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