I've always wondered about the promise in Q post 528:

https://qalerts.net/?n=528

YOU and YOUR FAMILIES are SAFE.

PROMISE.

Q

WHAT, exactly, does that mean?

I don't really have an answer to that question. I do, however, believe in the old adage that "the Lord helps those who help themselves."

https://financialpreparedness.substack.com/p/the-law-of-the-jungle

I just finished watching the three-episode documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 on Netflix, and recommend it. It's a fascinating (and somewhat terrifying) deep dive into crowd psychology and human nature.

The guy who organized the original Woodstock in 1969 also organized this one. His idealism seemed like mere naïveté to me. For example, he didn't want police or armed security guards, so he had a “peace patrol” composed of (way too few) completely untrained young guys who were armed with yellow T-shirts.

Even this idyllic utopian vale suffered from the Tragedy of the Commons, because nearly everyone just threw their trash on the ground like it was Somalia. The massive amount of trash that covered the ground reminded me of the signal that graffiti sends: “chaos reigns here.” It didn't take long for the 400,000 young people who showed up to figure out that there were no laws and they could pretty much get away with anything.

Ironically, inside the fence of an old Air Force base, a festival that was supposed to be about “peace, love and music” descended into a Hobbesian state of nature—where life is “poor, nasty, brutish and short”—within three days.

. . . But these are exactly the conditions that will prevail during a severe crisis, which is why it's crucial for you to get a glimpse of what true human nature looks like once the thin veneer of civilization is stripped away. Because you don't want to be psychologically unprepared for that, like the media and Woodstock production crew were.

On the second night, the crowd began to climb and dismantle the sound tower. It was fascinating to hear it described as like a horde of zombies scaling a castle wall—it looked just like that.

. . . many thousands of people proceeded to burn, rape, plunder and destroy.

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