[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick, and is excerpted from the August Issue of TDV]
This month, we thought it’d be appropriate and a little poignant to take a look at how things can change. Some for the better, some for the worse.
i09.com recently released some “time traveling” photographs which are striking splices of two photographs taken from the exact location decades apart.
Let’s begin with San Francisco in 1906 during the massive earthquake and how it looked from the exact same angle in 2010.
That, of course, mostly shows an act of nature.
Now, let’s take a look at some more photos with man-made disasters.
Here are a few photos of how a particular street in Budapest looked after the Hungarian uprising in 1956 contrasted to today.
I have eaten something called a “McFarm burger” at that exact McDonald’s just a few years ago, as an aside.
What a difference a few decades can make.
Interestingly, aside from the San Francisco earthquake photos and photos of past war and destruction, many of the photos from i09.com were of Detroit which in recent decades has gone the opposite direction of places like Hungary.
Here are a few from one high school in Detroit in the late 80s and early 90s contrasted to today.
Of course, to be completely fair, many buildings have been torn down since the early 90s. However, given what is currently going on in Detroit (and soon in the rest of ‘Merika) we thought this was a poignant contrast.
Of course, the most poignant photo of change and how man can rebuild from anything is the largest terror attack ever committed: the bombing of Hiroshima. Here it is in 1945, and how it looks now.
But, while some of these photos show how things can change dramatically for the better in a number of decades, they also show the opposite. The positive for the US is that it is possible that within a few decades (or sooner if government stays out of the way) it can rebuild from The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI). We don’t suggest all but the most non-risk averse stay for the transitional period, whether it be 1-2 years, 10-20 years, or 100-200 years.
At the very least, as you know we have consistently stated, get a significant portion of your assets outside of the US and the Western fasco-communistic nation-states and line up at least some options for getting out (passport, foreign residence) as an insurance plan.
[This article is excerpted from Jeff Berwick's "The Big Picture", which appears in each month's TDV Issue, a subscriber-only publication and continues on with ways to prepare for the collapse. To continue reading this, and other articles, please subscribe here.]
