Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
Ernest HancockGood evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am not an expert or a scholar or an activist. I am more of an eye-witness. I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide just how urgent a message it is.
My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States. I will compare it with the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse. The rhetorical device I am going to use is the "Collapse Gap" – to go along with the Nuclear Gap, and the Space Gap, and various other superpower gaps that were fashionable during the Cold War.
Sure, that's easy to understand. Under the Communist regime, poverty, shortages, hunger, poor living conditions, low salaries, unemployment, economic depression and all that good stuff were common place and part of the norm. However, in the US depravity, decadence, excess and materialism reign supreme. What do you think all those fat asses are going to do when they can no longer spend a $100 a day on McDonald's stuffing their fat faces with plastic chicken and gentically-engineered cow caca burgers? What do you think people are gonna do when they can go shopping and charge like mules when they feel depressed or have a fight when the husband?
Those people are gonna hurt, boy!