want to see the system crashed, because at the moment there are not enough alternate resources in place to replace what the system is doing for the masses. @ TTT, Greer's point is that no one knows what date and time that the waves will roll over a specific individual. As I read the analogy -- the damage has been done, the fact that the voyage will never be completed, that the ship will not be carrying anyone to port, ever -- that has already happened. The choices are to jump ship in the hope of finding an alternate path to somewhere, or refuse to change and marry your future to the sinking ship. I think it is implied that getting to the lifeboat, and getting far enough away before the ship sinks (and pulls down anything too close), improves your chances of surviving. If you think of surviving as living a life with less dependence on a corporate-nurturing economy as the lifeboat, then certainly, getting onboard that changed life cannot start too soon. The panic of rising waters will make thinking more frantic, and make choosing well more difficult. The first ones into the lifeboat are better able to help others, and partake in early group decisions. By changing early, you have more control over what happens to you. It is less obvious, maybe, to Sharon's readers on ScienceBlogs than at her Chateleine's Keys blog, that the focus is first on your own choices, on what you perceive is