Agree 100%. A big barrier to those discussions is the view which society has of anyone expressing preparedness/resilience viewpoints. "You're not one of those tinfoil, gun-hoarding prepper hillbillies, are you?". You have to navigate carefully past that, slowly, to make any headway and get to the conversations you ultimately need to have to progress.

So right now you see most efforts concentrated at the individual and family levels, with isolated pockets of preparedness 'societies' emerging. But even those wider efforts are regarded as pretty kooky by society as a whole. I'm thinking specifically of the American Redoubt movement when penning this, but there are others - LDS, Amish are examples of groups making wider preparedness efforts but still very much siloed.

I think these discussions and wider preparedness efforts are unlikely to gain any ground without some events occurring that demonstrate a clear need for improvements in preparedness. Of course, nobody should be willing such events to occur because people will die. But the longer we go without such an event, the dimmer society's memory gets as to how to survive them.

What's that poem? Something like: Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times.

It seems appropriate.