Someone responded to the post above:


If you said this to the average person they would probably be unable to
grasp it, but in truth it is very possible. If the life blood of our
economy, our culture and our urban and suburban existence, namely energy,
were to vanish, we would see chaos not unlike what occurs when a major
hurricane wipes out power in a major city.

One case in study is Greece, but that is due mostly to marxist and
anarchist ideologies which have swept the country. Rather, an example from
antiquity is sufficient. The little known Greek Succesor state of Baktria.
Baktria was a Greek territory in between Persia and India carved out by
one of Alexander the Great's generals. Within 20 years it had expanded
beyond the territory of Alexndreia eschatate where Alexander had set up
his altar to zeus. They seemed prosperous and very wealthy. Then after
spectacular military victories they fell apart. Generals fought over
wealth, Greek settlers rebelled over taxes and famine, and a small
catalyst such as invasion from the Yuezi and the Saka barbarians toppled
the kingdom almost over night, where even money would have been on them
controlling that whole region.

Another case in study is the Soviet Union. In spite of their vaunted
status as a super power they were really little more than a third world
country with AK-47s and nukes. The dependency of the soviet union was upon
governmental administration, and when that collapsed so did the country.
Yet, the difference was that Russians were prepared for the government to
collapse, they had waited a long time for that. People knew they couldn't
trust the government, they knew how to grow their own food and fix their
own appliances.

Most Americans don't even know how to handle tools. The can do philosophy,
and the solid industrial ability Americans once possessed has been washed
away entirely by our worthless public school system, and the idiocy of
parents who themselves had their abilities zapped by worthless public
schools and an urban life disconnected from work. When the basic ability
to fix, produce or power things dissipates, there will be absolute and
total chaos in this country.