optimistic tone and say that all is not lost.  Might make for a rousing diary.  The conditions of the past are not the conditions NOW.  Communication control, very important to past dictatorships, is befuddled with the internet.  It's incredible that I'm one of the few people I know informed on things going on in Iceland, Ireland, and Greece; Thank You ET!  Plus we have other technologies we can draw on.

Gloom and Doom doesn't have to be our end or the start of a new round of "same old/same old" but we sane educated folks have to make some serious decisions involving birth control, etc.

I'm actually optimistic for the future.  And if things go badly I'll get my head clubbed in and that will end my visit to this delightful little berg.  I win either way.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.