The Illusion of Security
Security feels simple when it’s bought. As long as the bills are paid and the fridge is full, people convince themselves they’re safe. But stability built on a paycheck isn’t stability. It’s permission that can be revoked. From time to time we ask our readers a question like this, not to provoke fear but to keep perspective. The goal isn’t to predict collapse. It’s to remind ourselves what security really means when everything borrowed is temporary.
Most of the country is one missed deposit away from panic. You can see it when storms hit or layoffs spread. Shelves empty, headlines spin, and people who thought they were fine start realizing how little they control. Food, heat, medicine, shelter. None of it belongs to them. It all lives behind passwords, policies, and payment systems that assume tomorrow will look like today.
When we built this farm, it wasn’t out of nostalgia or trend. It was because we were tired of that assumption. We wanted to own the things that keep us alive. To build systems that don’t ask permission to keep working. Farming became a test of what could be taken back: food, heat, independence, and eventually clarity.
That same clarity applies to everything, not just soil. If a job ended tomorrow, what would you have left that’s still yours? Not investments or insurance, but something you can use, sell, or eat. Something that doesn’t vanish when access disappears.
It’s an uncomfortable thing to think about, but that discomfort is useful. It forces honesty. It shows what’s real and what’s rented. It exposes how much of modern life depends on faith in systems that have already proven they can fail.
The point isn’t to prepare for collapse. It’s to stop living like collapse hasn’t already started. Every job cut, every shortage, every closed storefront is a quiet reminder that dependency is debt you can’t pay off.
We measure success by growth, but real success is endurance. It’s the ability to keep standing when the paycheck, the policy, and the system do not.
Every person has a line where dependency shows itself. You don’t know where it is until something cuts it.
If your income stopped tomorrow, what would you lose first, and what would you still have? This question was posed in our October 27th newsletter. Please subscribe to our newsletter if you’d like to respond to future questions, or you can always contact us here anytime.