Hypothetically, if the US economy collapses, the whole world is going down with them, and those that survive the socio-economic collapse (i.e. the first order p

Hypothetically, if the US economy collapses, the whole world is going down with them, and those that survive the socio-economic collapse (i.e. the first order producers with a defensible military), will be free to do as they please assuming the nuclear powers don't say, "fuck it" and blow everyone up as they lose control. The "If I can't have it no one else can", unthinkable insanity which all human beings are prone to given sufficient stress. Every end can be a beginning depending on how flexible your thinking is. The unfortunate part is, most people today have had evolutionary selective pressures towards narrow and brittle thinking. So a great many people will be left out in the cold along with everything that normally occurs in a Malthusian reversion with the caveats that Catton is likely more correct than Malthus in that regard.