The future was much more bleak for the members of the Donner Party in the sierra Nevada mountains, in October, when the snow started to fall and then didn't stop. Things are likely going to a hard place for a lot of us. We might need to find new ways to live. But we can still find happiness in our lives. We can work to individually free ourselves from their money systems, we can fill our minds with knowledge and becomes better people for it, we can observe the world around us and apply the things we observe in our own lives. Existing in nature has never been a cakewalk. And to believe we have some sort of "right" to a "carefree life" granted by God, or nature, or the universe or however we see it is little more than seeking out reasons to be upset when we feel it's been denied to us. I'm not saying nothing is wrong and I'm not saying we are not in the middle of a conflict. But if we choose to take radical self-responsibility for our own lives we will likely be surprised to realize not only how much freedom we currently have, but how much opportunity we are surrounded by.