Quote from: RE on Jan 17, 2026, 01:32 PMQuote from: TDoS on Jan 17, 2026, 01:02 PMI'll stick with my ice analogy.
Stick with whatever you like. If you had been alive in Nero's time, you would have denied Rome was collapsing while the fires burned and the barbarians sacked the city. "Cities burn all the time! They're built from wood! We'll rebuild!"
Burning Rome to the ground certainly was the collapse of Rome. It wasn't the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Guess what? No one has burned down a single US city, let alone enough of them to cause the effects listed in your definition of collapse.
I understand that you have been a collapse enthusiast from way back. After waiting for it probably all of this century, your only response is really only "just wait". We have been. For as long as you have argued at peakoil.com that your reason for going to Alaska was for how wonderful it would work out in the coming collapse. As I have said before, and you are pretty much a poster child for, our (you, me, Dog and maybe another reader or two) group is more likely to see a personal end than be knocked off by collapse, as per your definition.
Quote from: REIn the words of Little Donnie Dark: "There are none so blind as those who will not see."
RE
Indeed.
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that is not there." Thomas Hardy