The following is an excerpt of a recent conversation I had with a friend. He is an anarchist in every sense of the word:
"I tell you what the fuck is going to happen. First, the Middle East is going to implode. One of those countries will finally work up enough balls to take a swing at Israel and then Israel will retaliate. You think that place has problems now, just wait. All hell will break loose soon." My friend, who I have affectionately nicknamed Mad Max, is watching way too much Fox News in my opinion, but hey, who says that he couldn't be right? "And then when Israel gets itself in a jam, of course, we are going to have to ride to the rescue. But I don't believe are current leadership has the balls to back Israel up. Which in turn will cause a major ruckus in this country."
As I stated earlier in the post - Mad Max is an anarchist - Me, I am a Libertarian. Lots of people think they are one and the same. I am here to tell you they're not! An anarchist wants to see the government dissipate, a Libertarian wants to see it shrink. "Mad Max, why the hell would I care about what happens in the Middle East? There isn't a thing I can do about it. As a Libertarian, I feel the country is best served on concentrating their resources inwards, lifting regulations, shrinking the government and letting the grip of entrepreneurship run its course! When that happens! Everything will begin to turn around." Mad Max and I are in agreement on a number of things, but the notion that everyone should be stockpiling guns and ammunition for a forthcoming collapse is a bit ludicrous to me. But hey, it isn't to him.
"All I hear from you is how you believe this country and the world can cure itself by entrepreneurship and I would have agreed with you a few years back, but not now, not even close. It is far too gone for your style of thinking to be relevant anymore. If I were you, I would invest in guns, ammo and gold. Those three things will never go out of existence in this country." Even though Mad Max and I have been friends forever, I can only take so much of his banter at one time. So I told him that I had to go, but before I hung-up, I took the parting shot. "Mad Max, right now is a time of change in this country. I believe you can either adapt or perish. Now, a lot of times I feel a guy like me and the way I see things are dinosaurs of the past, but hey, what the world needs is an economic revival. I am holding on to the hope that once current leadership changes hands, it can happen. If leadership stays the same in this country. Well, you better dig a big enough foxhole for me to fit in there with you."
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