"If ponies rode men and grass ate the cows . . ."

The unusual title for this post comes from the lyrics of a British song, reportedly played at the closing of the Battle of Yorktown. Called "The World Turned Upside-Down," perhaps this song needs an update. For my part, I can't think of a time in my life where nothing looks normal anymore, more now than ever.
A few months ago, I was talking to a man who happened to unload some gold and silver locally. It appears he had a horrible time not only selling his precious metal coins. He had problems getting anything close to market value. Stopping to access his experience, he lamented that in a crisis situation, precious metals, a usually stalwart resource in troubled times, could well be worthless.
"Why would you say that?" I asked.
"With so much counterfeit metal on the market, it has lost it's perceived value. And testing isn't a viable option when society really breaks down." This response reminds me of a social experiment Mark Dice did years ago, when he offered pedestrians the choice between a gold coin worth $140 and a Snickers Candy Bar -- gratis -- no charge.
Everyone chose the candy bar.
There's a lot of presumed values that go down the toilet when society breaks down -- when the intuitive gets replaced by the counterintuitive. I learned that when I read a translation of Pitirim Sorokin's Man & Society in Calamity (1942) -- with historical examples of people eating tree bark to try to stay alive and women prostituting themselves for a cigarette. If -- like myself -- you were raised in the U.S., you've known prosperity for so long, such historical accounts of abject poverty and desperation seem other worldly. And yet today we are confronting conditions that were the precursors to these historical examples that occurred not even a century ago.
A couple months ago, I created something I called the Preppers Corner -- which explains the value of truly curative compounds and products, and their perceived value in a broken world where government agencies aren't so ubiquitous in their ongoing terror campaigns to suppress natural cures and elevate the pricing for secondary effect-laden, and often dangerous, pharmaceutical drugs. At the same time, I provided bundles of products that could be used for bartering, self-healing, or "urban doctoring" -- all staples of "life in calamity" -- the very kind that appears to be coming our way.
In this spirit of examining the direction of the world, and not necessarily the world the way we would have it, I ask our customers to check out our Preppers Corner and the bundles we offer.
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