Ah, but that's just it: even if I am better "positioned" than my neighbor in the near term, as the social fabric begins to tear apart we all will suffer, some sooner, some later. It's a completely alien notion to us (US), but at some point we're are going have to start thinking cooperation. Much can be done even on the local level. But ultimately we need to do so on the national and international level as well. Otherwise it will be hell, nay worse, hell without hope.