There's a reason that despair is a sin. It shows a lack of faith. Get your spirit right, friend. "The moral is to the physical as 100 to 1." - Napoleon There's a reason why history seems to rhyme: https://infogalactic.com/info/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory We are nearing the end of a "Fourth Turning". Fourth Turnings suck. Recommend you occupy a hull defilade position on decisive ground and see what happens. The best part of having a house full of guns and ammo and food and water and medical supplies and books and gardening supplies, etc? Even if nothing happens, you have a house full of guns and ammo and food and water and medical supplies and books and gardening supplies... Like keeping your car insurance paid up, the more prepared you are for the bad shit to happen, the less likely that it will. But let it lapse, for even one day and... I read a recent Russian economic paper that says that the reason things are so fucked up world-wide right now is that we are in the middle of a once-in-a-hundred-years convergence of a major economic change, a technological change, and societal change, all at the same time.