"I'm a stranger here, myself"

[Buncheong]

"All around me were the people who quietly keep the world running. They care for invalid loved ones, fix the sewers, check on their elderly neighbors, run local businesses, and try to raise their children to be decent men and women. Yet they all live in an increasingly fragile situation, dependent on a long list of things—the electrical grid, cheap gasoline, piped-in water—that have become more expensive and less reliable. If so many Americans are on the edge now, what happens when any of these go down for long?"

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/im-a-stranger-here-myself/

[prepare]

It is what it is.

[Averageman]

We've grown to expect that there is no fatal disease, we turn a spigot and expect to recieve fresh drinking water, plug in a plug and recieve regulated electricity.
We built all of this on the backs of generations of Americans working together, we are watching it be destroyed in two.