WTSHTF - A Few Thoughts

Modern Society is Increasingly Complex, Interdependent, and Fragile. With each passing year, technology progresses and chains of interdependency lengthen. In the past 30 years, chains of retail supply have grown longer and longer. The food on your supermarket shelf does not come from local farmers. It often comes from hundreds or even thousands of miles away. This has created an alarming vulnerability to disruption. Simultaneously, global population is still increasing in a near geometrical progression. At some point that must end, most likely with a sudden and sharp drop in population. The lynchpin is the grid. Without functioning power grids, modern industrial societies will collapse within weeks.

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Economy in the sewer - or is it WTSHTF time?

The national news is reporting that everything is fine, but there are still dummies out there wasting money on the 2012 scare, an asteroid strike, EMP, or some other crazy end-of-the-world scenario.
Meanwhile, to the best of my knowledge no one has figured out what to do with the crushing debt we owe.  The Fed is still pouring money into the economy and Greece has defaulted, but that’s being downplayed now.  Everybody knew it was going to happen and when it did it’s more of an anticlimax than anything.  Of course there are countries lined up waiting for the Greek domino to hit them, but that’s not being discussed much either.
Fuel prices continue to climb, China’s economy seems to be slowing it’s red hot growth spurt, and the price of groceries seems to rise every week, but the future is looking brighter?
Is it just me or is there a big disconnect here?