Survivalism

This is not a survivalist blog. There aren't recommendations on how to have enough gold and lead to survive the collapse of civilization. Indeed, there's no guarantee that will happen - within ten years, or even a hundred. Such an occurrence is unlikely: most Fourth Turnings have been much milder than that, so the probabilities say that this one will be as well. There are preparations that can be made short of five-year food supplies and fortified stockades. While paying off the mortgage is a fine idea, it isn't going to do much good if Sherman rides through town.

There may be enough information here to help recognize whatever is coming next.  Find a safe place, hunker down, wait for the shaking to stop. Recommendations made earlier still hold true: Keep far away from actual fighting, and be on the winning side. That may help people to survive.

If that's what they want.

While in the best of worlds, everyone who has a chance to read these words will live a long life beyond the end of this Turning, the Crisis isn't here merely to be lived through. It happens because there are important matters to be solved, and those of us alive, here, will help to solve them.

King Henry V didn't convince his army that they could survive. "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers... Gentleman in England now a-bed shall think themselves accursed that they were not here."  General Patton was closer in spirit to survival as a virtue - "Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!" - while similarly reminding them that they would be happier in the future after fighting in Germany than if they spent the War somewhere safe like Louisiana.

Pragmatic, cynical Reactives aren't supposed to think this way, but that's the simple logic of our times.