COLLAPSE -- here sooner or here later ???

If you've not been following Michael Ruppert's work (notes from the wilderness, now http://www.collapse.net/) I strongly suggest getting acquainted with his work and predictions.  Perhaps scarey, but VERY sound research (IMHO) and at least worth thinking about.

You can catch 8 parts of interview with him at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsju8-q-TT8&feature=related, along with several other clips featured there.  Better still, read his books and/or watch the movie, "Collapse" on DVD, also available at Amazon.com.

He talks about there being three types of people on the Titanic when it hit the 'berg:  a)  those in total denial of emminent danger (after all, the ship was "un" sinkable), b) those who knew how to take steps to avoid disaster, i.e. "build lifeboats" and c) those who needed direction as to what to do.

Same for society today -- by my math calculations (which are NOT that good), assume we have 300 million people in the USA -- only around 8-8,500 follow the doomers threads at LATOC -- that must mean each one of us who is wide awake and THINKING is around l:35,000 or so.  I don't like those odds (for being informed) -- prolly better odds in Vegas.

One last discouraging word:  it was on the teevee news today that Texas ranks # 40 in UNeducated, semi-literate (i give credit for literacy if you can write your name) population.  Arkansas ranks #50.  This was data from some University-type research group in re: advanced degrees (or even Associates degrees).