The Resilient World

John Robb's excellent Global Guerillas blog describes the early adapters to the brave new world of "political failure, economic depression, financial panics, rampant corruption/criminality, and violence" who are voting with their feet. A "flight to safety" from the failing dollar, according to the Sovereign Man site. So we have guns and butter on the one hand, and capital flight on the other. A veritable self-fulfilling prophecy.

Next is circle the wagons, and gut-shoot'em at the border. Do these scenarios run history in reverse? Cumulating in what, slavery? Yikes.

Take a stand, folks. Make your communities as resilient as they can be. To begin, we need to understand how resilient they can be. What are our fall-back positions for food, energy, health care, and other necessities? Are we investing in the fundamentals? No more running.

Amplify’d from globalguerrillas.typepad.com

Had the opportunity to give the keynote at the Sovereign Man conference in Panama last week.  VERY cool conference (although it sold out in 24 hours, it's unlikely to be repeated anytime soon).  The topic of the conference:  methods for hedging sovereign risk.   The thought that kept going through my mind as I gave my talk to the 350 smart/successful people in the audience:  These people in front of me are just the start of a flood.  Early movers.  People that have seen the long run stagnation and recently accelerating decline of western middle classes as just the start of something much worse -- political failure,  economic depression, financial panics, rampant corruption/criminality, and violence.   In other words, they were the first real refugees of the formerly developed countries to the north.   Read more at globalguerrillas.typepad.com