I want to start off by saying that it's really nice to have found this community of people. Lately I feel like I live in two worlds- one in which everything is business as normal, where people are telling me to invest in low index funds, and the other in which I should probably start stockpiling beans. But all this talk of needing community in the collapse and post-collapse world makes me nervous, because I can't exactly ask my co-workers to start a commune with me and my IRL friends really don't want to hear this "apocalypse nonsense."

So I guess my question is- do we have any efforts to start creating IRL social relations? If not, maybe we can start something? I don't know the mechanism through which we would do this, and I wanted to open up this space to discussion.

I don't even think it has to be with the end goal of finding someone to move to Vermont with tomorrow and start growing potatoes with (although I'm not ruling that out) but maybe even just for people to find others with whom to eat some cookies with and mope or discuss or whatever, since it's kinda hard to find IRL people to talk to about this.

anyway, I'm in NYC and am down for tequila shots and catastrophizing.

you guys have any ideas about this?

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p.s. does it still make sense to invest in low index funds