I'm over 50 , and I think the late 70s early 80s were kinda similar as far as the economy , and the general zeitgeist.

The pushing of evil , the relentless drive to corrupt our culture and our people is now in hyperdrive . Tranny story hour , teaching kids there's 27 different " genders " , ((( social media ))) encouraging women to be whores and men to be cucks , it's just beyond the pale.

It may seem like booze and drugs are a reasonable way to cope , but it just ends up corrupting and eventually destroying you.

I really feel sad for younger people like you. You guys really have no idea what a relatively healthy sane society looks like At least I have memories of that , though they are distant and fading.

Stay strong , mentally and physically. Read some stoic writers , Marcus Aurelius , and Seneca would be a good start. I would also recommend Musashi's Book of 5 Rings , and anything else you can find by him.

Become as self sufficient as possible. Be self employed or at least work towards that .

Stay strong , never surrender !

Those of us of a certain age had WWII vets, men and women, as mentors and role models. They had truly known hard times. On refecting, I've never known hard times. Sure, difficult and uncertain, but not like now. Deliberate shortages of materials, goods and products. The deliberate acts of violence being uncontained and allowed to grow freely. The rise of social media to destroy morality and to spread disunity. The treatment of older ideals and morals being openly mocked and ridiculed: family, work, faith, charity, community. This can be hard to cope with on a day to day basis, it does get demoralizing. I think you have to build your own foundation as a man or woman, and then actively seek like minded people. Eschew drugs, practice moderation. Avoid those who bring you down, have only negative energy, and mock your efforts. In times of peace, prepare for war.

I can't shake the feeling that there will be enormous conflict soon.

It's coming, only a matter of time and it will be sooner than we think.

I was a child when the 90s fall of Yugoslavia war broke out. This "silent dread" is exactly how the entire community felt months before the full blown war, as soon as this feeling kicked in nowadays I recognized it immediately.

Where I live now people basically never experienced a real war in their entire history, and they often try to rationalize this "silent dread" as "ah I'm reading too much news, that's what making me stressed". They don't realize what's really making them stressed is that from reading the news they subconsciously realize that soon they will have to fight to survive, and for White people there is absolutely nowhere to run as refugees - the entire world is our enemy who is just waiting to dance on our graves.

I for one thank God every day for giving me this opportunity to be in my prime at the time of the greatest fight our race has ever seen.

There just only one thing I'm uncertain of - ears or teeth?

I can't shake the feeling that there will be enormous conflict soon.

There will, we all feel it. Will be worse than (((LA riots))). Will be worse than (((BLM))) 2 years of riots etc. The only solace that can be drawn from is that a civil war in the US is the last thing kikes want. Which is why the US is being fullly drained right now, why other countries are being allowed to move off of the dollar standard finally.

All of these things go hand-in-hand. The latter if meant to alleviate the former. This is also why so much military tech and money is being directed toward Ukraine which will be israel's new seat of power after the US is allowed to fall. The goal has never been to allow the US to fall, but it happened due to the shortsightedness jews have. They pushed too hard, too much, too fast and people who would normally be easy to keep controlled began to question things.

I find myself here talking to a bottle of Jameson.

Don't be a faggot.

start prepping. it'll make you feel better. have a week or two of food? try storing 6 months worth or a year worth. learn skills like gardening or ammo reloading or ham radio. the more prepped you are individually, the more you can decouple yourself from clownworld when the time comes. edit: in my 50s

The sun will explode much sooner than everyone thinks.

I'm 35 but still think I'm in my 20s

I myself have never seen times like this. Your age suggests to me that you just barely missed out on the good times. I'm not that old, but I am just old enough to know how good things can really be and let me tell you, it's worth fighting for.

I have a few comments that might be helpful.

First, America, before the JFK, MLK and Bobby Kennedy assassinations was a very different place. The Vietnam war left a huge scar across the American psyche, and we didn't know how to deal with it (and still don't).

The second event that every youngling should be proficient in is the 9/11 charade. Americans at that time had no idea how to respond. When President Bush declared, "Either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists." American should have rightly responded with tens of thousands of protesters in the streets. Free-speech zones should have been met with righteous indignation and absolute defiance. The questionable Patriot Act was made law, and is still law today - even though 9/11 is long gone. The seeds of all our governmental overreach problems today were planted on 9/11 and fertilized by the Iraq & Afghanistan wars.

Finally, I think it's important to realize that those with power today, are actually quite stupid, fearful, impotent, erratically violent (their strongest point), and devious. Their weakness is that they're nowhere near as smart as they think they are, and if you just use studied perception of their shenanigans, what they are actually attempting to do quickly becomes evident. I think it's important to feel secure with months of food and supplies. I think it is important to identify trustworthy neighbors (if there are any). Also, at least have a rough idea of your Plan B and Plan C.

I'm past 60. The worst economic times I remember were the Jimmeh Carter years 1977-1981. The worst civil years were in the late 1960s with RFK, MLK assassinations, Riots, Black Panthers, SDS and other revolutionary entities causing chaos. I barely remember the day JFK was shot. LBJ's Great Society policies changed America forever after that, destroyed the black family structure and positioned Big Govt as the breadwinner for unmarried mothers. The worst years of American self image were, in my mind the Clinton years. Many questionable changes were made, Presidential scandals, the hag known as Hillary polarizing the people with her allegations of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy" fighting her. That has since morphed into "right wing extremists" when in fact Hillary was the unhinged extremist. Liberal feminism flourished. That presidency degraded the office of the president and vice president. I'll skip the more recent history 2000-up, you are probably familiar with it.

My 97 year old neighbor told me America was great from her childhood through the late 1950s, and seemed to go downhill after that, like clouds forming over the years blocking the sun that once shone brightly. She said you could trust your neighbors, civic duty was prevalent, people cared and helped to take care of each other. Where she was even the depression years weren't that bad. The sexual revolution of the 1960s, the advent of the pill, the senseless losses of the Vietnam war, the adoration of self changed America for the worse.

The past 50 years have seen a dramatic shift in American values.

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Endless lies. ENDLESS WARS. Endless inflation. Endless 'printing'. Endless oppression. Endless subjugation. Endless surveillance. Who will put an end to the endless?

We will.

I feel for those with their lives still ahead of them. You must learn ways to cope, survive and even thrive amidst more pessimism and negativity that I have ever seen. But I also believe that is mostly jewish propaganda to break our spirits. If you do the best you can in your corner of the world, you may be amazed at how much of the evil simply falls away, leaving you room to grow with a wholesome heart. God bless.