Soooooo.....Let me get this straight. You started in 2005 (an important date to remember- the year of peak conventional oil, lead up to the 2008 financial crash). 10 years later, your profession isn't around anymore and you are unemployed...while we are in the midst of a commodities crash (The result of 2005). You "Prepped" buy paying off your house and putting in a big friggin garden (Same as me)...and now we are golden, un panicked and well placed while others are homeless and on food stamps. Yay Prepping!
But your advice to people is "Pretend to the bitter end", You will be happier. Don't push people out of the way of the approaching truck.
Me. I had the complete opposite experience.
True story, When I first watched The Crash
Course end to end,
http://www.peakprosperity.com/crashcourse .....I sat dazed for a few minutes...and then burst into tears. A full on cathartic blubbery mess. Snot in my beard and everything.....But I wasn't morning or anything like that. It was relief. My response was "Thank god I am not the only person seeing all this. Thank God I Am Not Crazy".
The end result is I am Happier, More self confident and I like myself more. I was motivated to
sell the
city house before it lost value, Not get into any debt and get way more self sufficient. It motivated us to do some world travelling. Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Spain, France, Germany, Holland and the former soviet block, and the US. We did this because we knew a time was coming when we would Never be able to do this again. Ive had a richer life for it.