LJ Brainstorm

[nyuanshin]

A friend and I have a running dialogue on whether or not some sort of major institutional cataclysm is likely to occur in the next decade or so (yes, really). The other night we started talking about things one could do that would have some benefit under stability but a potentially enormous benefit under instability. I think of acquiring skills --

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[ercutio]

I was going to recommend "politics" to fill any potential power vacuum that would likely arise in the sort of apocalyptic scenario that seems to be under discussion.

However, it would seem that airstrip beat me to it. He just called is a "sociopathic persona".

On a serious note, it's going to depend a lot on what sort of cataclysmic event we're discussing. Are we merely talking about a government failure? Economic failure? Or are we talking about something more along the lines of New Orleans, post-Katrina-- lack of power, lack of infrastructure, but ostensibly there's still a government in place?