Great Depression Lessons As the weather and Plate Movements take their toll on the economy and the WEF banks struggle to avoid bankruptcy, the ghost of the Great Depression looms. Businesses went bankrupt and closed, taking jobs with them. Banks foreclosed then as they are doing now when the mortgage is due and the home owners are without the wherewithal. So many homeless. How did they manage, and how did they recover? The Zetas have compared the time of the Great Depression to the time in our near future after the Pole Shift, when cities will crumble and distribution of food stuffs stopped. The grid will be down, communications like the phone or internet likely unavailable, and everyone in shock. New forms of government will emerge, some quite different than expected. Many communities will find they are led by children or women. ZetaTalk: Government The Aftertime will find most of mankind in a dearth of government directives. Even small towns, governed by mayors well known on the city streets to all, and traveling bands governed by chieftains, will feel the lack. Insanity, depression, loss of life and confusion will remove the firm hand so familiar from governing. Families will look to their elders, the family man, the religious leader, and find them all staring, shaking their heads, and unable to speak. In these situations, leadership arises from the needy, natural leaders emerging. Often they are children, to whom most of life is startling and strange, the unfamiliar presented almost daily. To the child, this is more an adventure, an opportunity to act without constant parental admonitions. They will make suggestions, and be allowed to proceed, and often lead their dazed and depressed parents and elders about like rag dolls. Beyond the children, who will be inventive and energetic in the main, women will assume command by doing daily chores. After the Shift, women will wash and clean, gather and cook a meal, and thus be looked upon as someone who can direct activities. When the depression clears, and survivors begin looking about them, determining if they should seek out a government rep or make a report, perhaps seek help from their government, a different conclusion will arise. Initiating, observing, and offering to help, and sharing, has taken place. This is the Service-to-Other society of your future, and once established by survivor groups, should not be supplanted by ego driven directive by the power hungry. Tell them to sit back down and fall silent, as you did so much better before they found their tongue. (Continued in the Comments)