die, mouth breathers

DIE, MOUTH BREATHERS

Having nothing to do with preparedness, although there might be a slight economic link, and everything to do with my personal discomfort and adding to my already slightly bad attitude, my super deluxe wonderful weekend. Saturday was the usual “go into town and plop the wife in front of the penny slot machines while I went and did all the House Bitch ( Black Embroidered Apron "Kitchen Bitch" ) chores in the vain hope that the old dear would put out some time next week”. I found a great book at the library ( this week, the newest by Ken Folliet, last week a surprisingly good “new to me” author with the book “The lonely polygamist”- I get scared when I have a streak of really good books since it most likely means something really bad is going to happen ) ( Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy) ) ( The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel ) and started in on it Saturday and would have loved all to pieces to read a lot of it on Sunday, one of those rare sunny days you could enjoy. But, NOOOOOOO!!!!! Friggin bastard whores at AT&T ( remember when their newly designed logo looked like the Death Star and that really fit in with their evilness? ) bought out Alltel, the only other cell company in town, and I had to keep going back to the store until the line was ONLY two hours long ( and throw in that two hour long round bike commute ) so that the idiots could change over my new phone to my old number and carry over my accumulated minutes. I can’t go into the varied and nuanced ways in which the corporate ass munching scum sucking anal swabbing dillholes made my life miserable with this mandatory switch over, but let’s just say I’ve had far better experiences in the DMV. My newest best guess is that these idiots will have overextended financially from the merger and declare bankruptcy within a year and I’ll have to get screwed all over again by either a federal government bail-out ( your new shiny Obammy Phone for only $999! ) or another corporate buy-out. All this for a pre-paid phone ( Motorola EM326 Pre-Paid Cell Phone for Net10 with Bluetooth - Black ).
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Here’s a joke for you. A speaker was holding a seminar on paranormal life. He asked the audience if any had ever seen a ghost. Half raised their hands. He asked those if they had touched, or been touched by, a ghost. A few raised their hands. Then he asked if anyone had had sexual relations with a ghost. One man raised his hand. The speaker beckoned the man forward and asked him to elaborate. “Sir, can you tell us about your sexual relations with this ghost?” “What? I thought you said goat”.
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Come the collapse, life will revert to normal. And normal includes a lot of negative things, at least from the standpoint of Oil Man. It means far more fulfilling lives, jettisoning the superficial and getting back to the business of simple survival- eating and procreating. This is disturbing to a lot of folks since they mistakenly assume they are so friggin special. Let me tell you, with over six billion of us around, you ain’t very special. You are just a feeder and breeder, and your existence or lack thereof will not alter the universe. Which is why prepping is so important. No one cares if you live or die, so you must take care of that while you can. Reverting to normal includes death being far more normal. Not just during the collapse but forever after. When malnourishment is normal, you take sick far more easily. Kids die all the time ( look at the Irish not too long ago as an example ). Old people die all the time. No one goes out of their way to save you because there is NO ENERGY SURPLUS. Let me be blunt so we don’t misunderstand each other. Poor kids die. Poor geriatrics die. Poor adults die. Wealth is a measurement of surplus energy. Lack of that means you are poor. You might see some kind of minimal effort being made at keeping Third Worlders alive right now, but for no other reason than social stability to keep cash crops flowing. And in case you missed the bulletin, the Third World population within our borders in being allowed to die. Mostly from obesity and triaged medical care, but they are the first wave of the normal way of things in an energy scarce environment.
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Once it becomes obvious to everyone that the collapse is here, about the time food is actual scarce rather than just expensive and folks are shooting at you for various reasons, it is going to be time to start thinking about changing our cultural norms. Killing babies you can’t feed. Killing parents past a certain age that can no longer contribute. Killing off the retards, and the cripples. Killing off the seriously wounded and the prisoners of war that become too weak. In short, if you can’t feed someone it actually becomes necessary to do the correct thing and put them out of their misery. If history is any guide, this was rarely done correctly. Old people walked out into a winter storm and babies were left to die on their own in the wilderness. To me, that seems far more cruel than mercy killing. But, then I suppose you can’t be expected to off your own family members, those you carried in your womb for almost a year or those that cared and nurtured you through childhood. Perhaps there could be some kind of sanctioned place where poison could be administered? It might be a bit complicated how to pay for it. Perhaps the bodies got turned into methane? ( Methane: Planning a Digester ) I’m not trying to shock or awe anyone here, but I think these things need to be thought of prior to their implementation. Do you want to have the conversation with your 80 year old father that he needs to stop eating so his grandson can survive?
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Petroleum surplus allowed us to do a lot of wonderful things, including keeping everyone alive despite skills or usefulness. It was a nice break from reality, which was that the norm is overpopulation ( All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty ) and die-off. I think slowly wasting away is not a great way to die and our fellow tribesmen would be merciful in shortening the suffering of the terminals. It is an ugly subject but so is living three months into the famine weighing 85 pounds with no energy to put a bullet into your head.
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