Keep your head

"Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools:"
Rudyard Kipling, "If"

Sometimes I feel adrift in all this information that is outside the mainstream. That is the danger of turning off the intravenous feed, the TV. As I learned more and more about oil depletion, and began to examine the bones of our government, society, and culture, I found myself in a morass of preparing for too many scenarios, simultaneously. All the while, I feel like I am waking up from anesthesia and fuck it hurts! So today I was thinking of Grace Slick while on a work call, which brought up Keep your head, because I can never remember the lyrics correctly (Feed your Head) which made me think of making sure the basics are covered. The daily basics of "Keep your head."

Shelter
Water
Heat
Food
Clothing
Communications
Power

No matter what sort of collapse comes due to the confluence of our perfect storm - economic, energy depletion, global warming, sterile seas, comes it must. I must not, and you must not, let the strain of preparing for the uncertainty of de-consumption confuse to the point of paralysis.

The goals and concerns of society are quite different than the goals and concerns of you or me.
While crowd control and looting are the main concerns of the military during a disaster, your concern is keeping you and yours alive and safe. There for the list above. Those things should be in your mind at each step. If you are in shock with a bank collapse or hurricane you don't have to have the concerns of the society on your mind, or plans for food storage three years from now.
You need to think, shelter, water, heat, food, clothing, communication, and power.
I'll be talking about each of those in the next few days.
Keep your head.