Is this kind of ill-informed, masturbatory apocalypse fantasy unique to America? Or are there people like this in other countries?

Agreed, this sounds like some college kid's English 101 homework, where the assignment is to provide an outline for a bad Stephen King spoof.>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Is this kind of ill-informed, masturbatory apocalypse fantasy unique to America? Or are there people like this in other countries?

idk, I think there is a certain amount of truth in this. I mean ok, I don't think we'll be seeing blood running in the streets but idk, there is a lot of frightening shit on the horizon and I do wonder how well we'll adapt and how much growing pains will be involved.

The words he says are true about America, and the riots may come, but the conclusion about American riots being the worst isn't true because 95% of it applies to every other modern country, and 75% to the Arab Spring countries.

There has always been "a lot of frightening shit on the horizon", no matter what decade you lived in. For every person that looks back at the 1950s as idyllic and calm there is somebody who was convinced their life would end that year in a nuclear war. Same goes for any other time period. Myself, I was convinced at the time that there would be nuclear war when the Soviets shot down that Korean passenger jet in September 1983. And now it's been pretty much forgotten.

I've been affected by the economic downturn over the past 10 years, just like everyone I know. And I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about the future of the economy either. But as someone said, there never was the "good old days", things have always been changing and in turmoil in some respect. I take all the fearful predictions with a grain of salt. >> ^Jinx:

idk, I think there is a certain amount of truth in this. I mean ok, I don't think we'll be seeing blood running in the streets but idk, there is a lot of frightening shit on the horizon and I do wonder how well we'll adapt and how much growing pains will be involved.