Gestalt?

In retrospect, I never expected things to unfold like they have.

For the last couple of years I have been focused on peak oil/energy as the problem, but the reality was, that there were a multitude of problems, and peak oil was the precipitating event that collapsed a multitude of illusions. I think we may have been able to handle one or two problems, but not this many.

When oil prices surged these last couple of years, the tide went out, and it turned out that everyone was swimming naked. Sure, now that it has happened, it is so obvious, but not prior to these events. It just never occurred to me that everything would meld into such destructive disharmony.

Yes I knew that national and personal debt has been unsustainable for decades, that bankers were crooks, that farming practices were not sustainable, that energy policy was not sustainable, that climate chance was a problem, that politicians were corrupt and that nations would resort to “beggar thy neighbor” in a panic. However, what I never even considered, was that these separate circumstances would join together in a choir of such destruction.

Ooops.....

Beggar-thy-neighbor:
http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Beggar-thy-neighbor

Gestalt
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gestalt