I don't care anymore...

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Apathy has set in. I've worked my butt off preparing for Y2K, gone into major debt to make sure me and the wife can survive, and I've reached the point where I'm looking forward to a nice long break in the new year. Do I care if someone else goes hungry? Not really. People are stupid, and society compensates for their stupidity, actually rewards it if you work for the government. But there's gonna be a major shift away from that. Common sense will be the new currency. Gotta love it.

-- sonoma (really@bugged.com), September 29, 1999

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If "Common sense will be the new currency" then prepare for bankruptcy!

-- dw (y2k@outhere.com), September 29, 1999.

"Common sense is not common."

First attributed to Voltaire, I think, and then later to Will Rogers.

-- Ed Yourdon (HumptyDumptyY2K@yourdon.com), September 29, 1999.


"You can't wake a man who is pretending to sleep." Old Navajo proverb. I agree with you sonoma. I can only watch out for so many, and I am begining to not care about those who are only interested in greed. They don't seem willing to take care of themselves and have no real interest in the future. We are now watching the 'live for today' attitude take over.

-- Jim Waldrep (Wallew@AOL.COM), September 29, 1999.

Common sense is Y2K compliant.

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), September 29, 1999.

You say you don't care now because it's not happening in front of you. When you see the gaunt faces, you will be devastated. (Sorry, but, it's true.)

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 29, 1999.


On a locally shown special called 'y2k-ready or not" (aired Sunday night on CBS local) and sponsored by ATT, the city manager of Berkley, Calif was the last item on the show. He said 'citizens' had asked him what plans there were for feeding the populace if the food transportation system went down. His answer? The general public had better be preparing in some way because there was no way that either the local or state governments could possibly feed or even distribute the food (even if it was available). He also said that he felt that it was not the responsiblity of the government to make sure everyone had food.

180 degree spin from about 30 days ago when Brokaw said "No need to panic. Its just a bump in the road".

-- Lobo (atthelair@yahoo.com), September 30, 1999.


Darlin'

I concur completely. I'm tired of it all as well. I never thought I had this much in me to fight my family for this long. I've stocked up some (gimme that cord of wood for my 40th birthdy Gdmit!!!) but these days I'm thinking along more dramatic lines, like how can we, if we need to, end it all painlessly. The thing I fear the most is a long, drawn out starvation thing. I know it may not (probably not? who knows?) come to that, but if it does, I want to be prepared.

How's that for The Real World?

-- Cord of Wood (limited stamina@tired.com), September 30, 1999.


Lobo, I am surprised that Bezerkely the socialist city by the bay, doesn't have any contingency plans to feed the hungry for Y2K. The churches have always depended on donations to feed the hungry, but this is a totally different ball game here. People will be hoarding their food! We shall see when the food drives begin just what the temperature of the water will be. Big college town, next to Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, I don't even want to think about it!

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), September 30, 1999.

cord of wood

I have been thinking the same thoughts and wishing till it hurts that I had got my gun licence years ago so that now I would have some protection and/or a "way out" if it all gets too bad....

-- mango (sammy1@indiasite.com), September 30, 1999.


Man, are you guys depressing. How about some Prozac to lift yourselves up. Yes, I have been preparing, and although I do not feel like I have done 100% of everything that needs to be done, I do not feel like I nor my family will die, except for my Dad who is a ton of medicine. I have faith in myself, my family, my neighbors, my community and God. Because of Y2K, I have changed my job, my work, much about my home, the structure of my finances, etc. Getting ready for Y2K is a lot more than just buying some bottled water and dried beans. That is what one does for an ice storm. My question to myself when I started thinking about Y2K was, what if all of the roads were blocked at the county line, how well would I survive? My answer was a , "yes, I will survive." If it had been a no, then I would have moved. But it was a yes, and therefore, I will stay in the neighborhood where I have lived most all of my life (except when I was in my early twenty's) , where my Mother has all her life, where my Grandfather lived all his life, ... where my people have lived since 1607. I figure that if my 13th great Grandfather was able to survive the worst drought in Virginia in 500 years, being in a strange and hostile land, then I will survive Y2K

-- chicken farmer (chicken-farmer@ y2k.farm), September 30, 1999.


Trust in Spirit, in God, with your whole being, and make what preparations you can and feel you need to; but, most of all, trust in God.

-- Carl Eschbach (eschbachcr@ar-arng.ngb.army.mil), September 30, 1999.

You've gone into major debt and you want to talk about common sense?

-- huh? (youm@ke.nosense), September 30, 1999.

It's not that I don't care too, it's the unknown that really bothers me. I have prepared to the hilt on Y2K, some days I think about the Mad Max's and play over & over in my head of every scenerio of what could go wrong and what will I do therein. Then I think maybe nothing will come of Y2K, taking crow from people whom I have warned about Y2K seems easier to thinking about than the Mad Max's. I live 4 miles from a 200 man prison & cann't get the vision of the gates being thrown open out of my mind. I wouldn't admit this to someone I know, but if Y2K is for real, then all bets are off & I would shoot to kill if someone tries to mess with me or my family.

-- Judy (dodgeball@aol.com), September 30, 1999.

Y2K does NOT = common sense.

But we're stuck with it in whatever shape it morphs into next year.

Whenever you get too depressed sonoma, log-off, take a long walk in a sun-dappled forest (or in a flower-strewn field near grape vines) and remember that... earth abides. (For now).

Be well. And do something you love to do for awhile.

A shift in attitude will happen... if you let it.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 30, 1999.


Y2K will be different from all previous storms/calamities because of the raging humanimal reaction factor. Carl Eschbach, very important point. It will take a definite Act of God to change the current downward drain in men's rotted jaded hearts.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 30, 1999.


chicken farmer,

One of my ancestors arrived in 1634 in MA. I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on this place after 12 generations. Most of my family will survive. I will make sure that they do.

-- nothere nothere (notherethere@hotmail.com), September 30, 1999.


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