dystopia

DYSTOPIA


You would think as much as I purposely attempt to scrape on any exposed nerves that my minions would have a bit thicker skin, but evidently any mention of cannibalism gets everybody all worked up in a lather ( the weekend guest article ). Either that or any humor is looked on with slack jawed drooling incomprehension. As far as cannibalism ( Contingency Cannibalism: Superhardcore Survivalism's Dirty Little Secret ) goes, I’ve covered that time and again. Has it escaped anyone’s attention that the official Bison motto had the phrase “last one in the stew pot wins” added some time ago? As far as humor, lighten up for the sake of all that is just and holy. Even as my enemies, too numerous to mention, line up to conspire against me, even as both earthly forces and those of a higher plain assemble to continue their once disjointed but now coordinated attacks against me, I still strive to retain my sense of humor. Okay, it might be crude, dark, raw and rude, but I’m still forcing myself to paste on a crap eating grin at all times. Wheee, look at me, I’m so friggin happy I could soil myself! We are all going down in an inglorious blaze, so we might as well enjoy ourselves. We won’t have a choice whether we die or not, but we can choose to go out with a modicum of style. Laugh in the face of the gods as they smite you!

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I just finished reading the book “Operation SERF”( Operation SERF ) which I thought was a very well written piece of work. Of course it suffered from the high price of a “print-on-demand” book but I can’t exactly throw glass house stones since my books ( THE FRUGAL SURVIVALIST disaster preparations under $500 ) are also. But that is the only thing I can complain about, spending $45 to read 900 pages ( it will be a three volume series ). You can go on over to http://www.oftwominds.com/ and read a sample so there will be no surprises. It isn’t really a survivalist book, but more like 90% militia porn. Perhaps not the epic that Bracken’s book were ( Foreign Enemies And Traitors ), but I found this one to be a bit more realistic ( which is of course a relative take on things- I found the others to be too optimistic about the forces/supplies at the disposal of the feds and this one to be more aware of severe shortages and the effects of civilian anarchy ). What I’m beginning to like about militia porn is that it shines a spotlight on a probable dystopia. I’m constantly preaching that you are a fool to gamble on a long slow collapse. You should prep immediately with “better than nothing” supplies JUST IN CASE the worse case scenario occurs. Then, as/if things drag out you can continue to prep with upgraded supplies and situations ( for instance, going from a travel trailer to an adobe cabin on your junk land, going from a Russian bolt to an SKS or going from 400 rounds of ammo to two thousand, whatever ). Of course, spotlighting the inevitability of total collapse just around the corner also means I’m blinded by myself on the other possibilities such as dystopia.

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I make no apologies for my chicken little squawking ( Chicken Little ). It is far better to prepare immediately for the worse and be wrong about a sudden total disaster than prepare for a long slow collapse and be wrong about that, since you aren’t prepared with the best and brightest and highest recommended. Far better to live in a raw earth pit eating wheat kernels than be dead with a few cans of freeze dried foods scattered about your half completed concrete bunker. But that doesn’t mean you should ignore the possibilities of a future when our federal leaders still rule, even as the last oil wells squeal shut. I don’t think that is our future, since the government on all levels is 100% oil dependent ( just look at the mess a severe slow down in the rate of growth due to oil import declines has brought ). But it still bears thinking about. What if the feds could still hang on and rule us? I’m not talking five years from now as we still keep half our original ( pre-2005 ) oil supply but more like ten or fifteen years when we are down to perhaps 20%.

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The ability to keep satellites under control and legions of Predators aloft will be severely hampered. Any troop movements will be constrained, limited to a few trains. Ammunition will be in short supply, and I doubt many high tech toys/weapons will be operational. But the Feds could retain enough control to be our new feudal masters. “Operation SERF” had lots of great ideas in this regard. Oh, there were plenty of fun conspiracy theory infighting ( conspiracy theories should never be taken too seriously, even if true- they can worm their way too deeply into your sanity ), but disregarding that there were plenty of cool dystopia ( Feminist Philosophy And Science Fiction: Utopias And Dystopias ) ideas. Such as the President forcibly moving everybody back to the land for farming, pre-property bubble bust tax rates that were used to force folks off the land that was desired for wilderness areas ( you can more effectively control the population post oil if they are centralized ). One character rallies against local and county governments penalizing him with high tax rates even as all services are suspended. No snow plowing, no culverts were cleared so roads collapsed during flooding, etc. That sounds pretty close to what we can expect.

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I don’t really care who ends up ruling us after a collapse, other than it would be nice to have a less vicious and cruel leader. They will all be pretty much the same ( work harder! Work quicker! –sound of flesh shredding whip cracking- ) with just degrees of violence. It would be nice to know the source, either Washington DC mandates or local freed drug dealer turned earl or duke. But since that is a mystery we can just noodle it a bit mentally right now. Perhaps now we can get a discussion going on something other than ooky gross people eating.

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