fear and loathing in elko

FEAR AND LOATHING IN ELKO


Here’s a stray and random thought to amuse yourself with. Yes, I know you amuse yourself in other and less wholesome ways, but lets try to clean up our act and use your big brain instead. The general cleanliness of society in Europe left something to be desired from the collapse of the Roman empire ( The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1 ) to until just recently. A lot of times the explanation given is that suddenly some French dude thought of tiny stuff like germs and everyone ooohed and ahhhed and gave each other high fives and wondered why they hadn’t thought of this before and immediately started washing their hands after they had taken a stinky and hence we have our modern hygienic society where deodorant and daily showers and flush toilets are the norm. Now, granted, behavioral norms at times were out of kilter, such as when the Church burnt anyone giving safe passage to demons so everyone thought drinking water was sinful or some such crap, but even though nobody knew about bacteria and such at the very least through trial and error people did know how to some degree increase their odds of not getting sick. The Romans had baths and sewers after all. My thought is that it wasn’t the discovery of germs that made a difference ( yes, it makes a difference but it isn’t the main thing ) as much as the resources to build the sanitary infrastructure needed to put theory into practice. The Romans had the energy surplus to build it and modern Industrial societies had the means also. In between, there was no surplus. The discovery of germs five hundred years sooner would have helped in ways certainly but no one could have installed sewers or water mains without the coal and oil. Oil, in effect, allowed us to duplicate the cleanliness not seen since the Romans.

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I swear, if PBS gets anymore communist they are going to start playing Russian martial music ( Martial Music of the Clans ). Today they were covering the droning of the idiot in chief. You thought I just talked on and on and said nothing, this guy’s speech writers are freeken masters I could only hope to one day emulate which would only be possible if I went to Tibet and meditated with monks and achieved a zen like state with the universe and dedicate the rest of my life to the art. Obammy was trying on a new lie for size ( these are not my gloves! I did not have sexual relations with that woman! ) and said something to the effect that we had to start acting responsibly and stop borrowing money from Saudi Arabia ( Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia ) or China. Good God Christ Almighty on a pogo stick! I was laughing so hard I was crying, the road blurring, little old ladies shaking their walkers at me and screaming so I had to flip off the old coots, bumping into curbs and scaring dogs who were at peace with their happy place as they were dragging their asses in the snow after taking a dump and in general causing all kinds of road rage and bad will towards ones fellow man during the season of Black Friday trampling deaths and gross commercialization. The Chinese have already stopped loaning us money and the Saudi’s have decreasing oil production with a ballooning young population on welfare. Such a boldfaced lie as his bunghole buddy Bernenke turns the printing press speed up to “turbo” and warms up the fleet of helicopters.

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Ok, I am always pointing out the faults of others. How incapable of rational thought and bringing to light their own shortcoming they are. How we all have blind sides that color our thinking and conclusions. So, in my ongoing quest to be inhumanly wonderful as possible, I thought I’d spill a bit of my id and see what shape it takes in the chicken entrails. I am convinced that we are in for a collapse. I always spell out many reasons. But what if my thinking is shaped even subconsciously by my fears and inadequacies? You all know I’m not too terribly fond of other people. They are asshats, thieves, ne’er-do-wells, selfish herd animals. Unfortunately, since I can’t go Grizzly Adams ( Family Frontier Collector's Set ) up in Canada and have Amazon send books by boat plane of credit, I am forced to put up with them. So, while I’m smiling and kowtowing at them to be left alone, is my resentment and hatred being misdirected into wishful thinking that they would all be removed from the face of the earth as I was left alone except for some buxomly companions, king of all the desolation I surveyed? I don’t honestly know, but it is an interesting speculation. Also, would the belief in collapse be useful in hiding the weak points in my survival plans?

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If my faith in herding is misplaced, if in fact there will be too many idiots surviving and fighting over the scraps in the desert, if gardening is in fact the only way to survive, even if it means becoming a serf working your own land for someone else’s benefit, then by making the wrong prep choices I am not ready for an actual slow/long term collapse. Only the more sudden collapse ( with grain/bean stockpile to survive until the neighboring ranchers can go from a stored feed herding to a grazing existence ). Now, obviously, I don’t think I made the wrong choices. But that doesn’t mean they will turn out correct. Nor does it mean my decision making process isn’t flawed. But, you make your investments and hope it pays ( for instance, bolt guns are betting on no militia fighting and silver coins are betting against deflation and dollar supremacy ). Of course, even if I’m WAYYY off, as I always say- better to err on the side of paranoia since if you’re wrong you lose money instead of your life.

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