My grasp of history is that dependence on authorities eventually backfires and gets folks killed. I undertake to ensure I have independent means of providing necessary resources for my survival. I strongly recommend doing so, at all costs.
Very basal necessities are not optional, and the fact is that public order and government is not able to be guaranteed. South Korea particularly provides evidence of the insufficiency of government, as the information I have seen regarding changes in the executive office during the last decade reveals.
Government is as dangerous as it claims to be useful. Dirt and potatoes make no claims, and I trust them.
American senior, you are right. However, there is this American saying. "Do you have money to buy your freedom?"
In modern Korea, there are many people who cannot buy their freedom like me.
When I make dinner, sometimes it includes potatoes. Potatoes have 'eyes' where roots are emerging. I can trim these off and not cook them in my dinner, and even leave an inch of starchy tuber attached to the eyes.
These eyes are seeds. I can go out to parks, wild areas, abandoned places, and plant these potatoes. If food becomes unavailable in stores I can go to places where I planted potatoes and get food. You can do this with carrot tops, onions, and other crops.
Money can't save you. Food can. Make sure you can get food no matter what anyone sells. I know South Korea eats crops that aren't familiar to me. Plant them in little out of the way glades and on the edges of copses of trees. I can't teach you how to grow freedom, but without food you can't be free. Start there.
American senior, you are right. The food I made will set me free. However, Korea is too small and has a large population, so I don't have any land for farming.
Thank you! I wish you good health and longevity.