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YOUR HAPPY PLACE


I kept meaning to write a short note pertaining to last weeks discussion on affordable firearms. Some comments were made about commercial hunting rifles being a viable choice. They do give you the option of choosing the caliber of your choice and are relatively affordable. I just want to throw in the reminder that one of the reasons that the surplus guns were chosen in the first place ( back when they were cheaper ) was because the surplus bolt guns were so much more robust than their commercial cousins. A military gun is built to withstand the abuse in the field and prolonged firing, which can’t always be said of hunting rifles. They are built for short seasonal use with little repeat firing. I’m not discounting hunting rifles. After all, the gun you are good with is the best gun of all. I’m just cautioning against expecting too much from them outside their engineered purpose.

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After I wrote about killing the unworthy I had the expected comments that, once again, totally ignored the stated points of the article. No, it ain’t like Soylent Green ( Soylent Green ). That was an Industrial Age operation comprised of enemies of the state and volunteers. And the volunteers were bribed, in effect. I can’t remember how they were euthanized ( Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food ), so I might have ripped off the poison idea. One addition to that, realized too late after I had posted the article, would be the more desirable drug overdose. Far more pleasant. But the comment that really displeased me was the Nazi genocide comments. First of all, the Nazi’s didn’t just kill off all the undesireables because they were bored after taking over France. Those folks were eliminated AFTER they were worked to death. Resources were scarce in Germany and Japan. They invaded for resources. The Germans would not waste the railroads and the fuel just to kill off enemies. They used them as slave labor and then tossed them in the ovens. I’m not condoning the action, I’m trying to clear up the propaganda ( Propaganda ). No, I wasn’t there, and no, I don’t have secret information. But when you look through the energy lens certain things are clarified ( also, check out http://solargeneral.com/library/did-six-million-really-die-richard-harwood.pdf ). Second, I’m not talking about killing enemies of the state. I’m talking about putting those suffering and who would die a lingering unpleasant death out of their misery. As I said, historically, when the old are forced out into the cold or children are abandoned in the wilderness ( Hansel and Gretel ), that was a cruel necessity. I’m not arguing the necessity, I’m arguing it should be done in a more humane manner.

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I think what people are concerned about is who is choosing who dies. No one chooses. When everyone is dying in a famine the simple fact is that natural selection sees to it that there shall be winners and losers. Mouths need to be eliminated. The retards, extreme old and extreme young, the handicap, those are the ones that use resources without returning anything. They can’t labor, plant, invade or marry into wealth. It might be short term thinking but that’s what you get during a crisis. When the curtains are on fire, you throw the bucket of water on them, even if that is all you have to drink ( please spare me the nit picking such as “yank and smother” or some such- I’m making a point here ). But I think it goes beyond the concerns of abuse of power. I think most people are actively engaged in entrenching deeper into their Happy Place Bunker ( My Happy Place ). No one wants to face reality. In a pre and post Petroleum Age, death is a daily occurrence. Hard choices must be made. Not Happy Place choices. Today, an 85 year old geriatric suffers a heart attack on a Florida golf course. Do we let him flop around until dead, congratulating ourselves on helping to balance the budget as one less recipient is sucking down Social Security ( The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's Vision To Bush's Gamble ) bennies? Hell no! We rush him to the hospital and spend a quarter million dollars keeping him alive. Because we are compassionate and caring and sensitive and Can’t We All Just Get Along? I’m not saying that is necessarily a bad thing. If that was me flopping around I sure as heck would appreciate a little help. I wouldn’t want my last heard words to be a cost benefit analysis of my wrinkled ass. What I am saying is that in the future, in Oil Down, there won’t be ANY FRIGGIN CHOICE. An energy surplus allows old and young to live. It allows woman’s suffrage, it allows single crack mothers, it allows hundreds of thousands of dollars to be spent battling cancer.

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An energy deficit allows no mercy. You either die on your own or recover on your own. If your family helps, cool. If they are as poor as you, you are SOL. Right or fair or just has nothing to do with it. Mother Nature ( Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale ) is back in control once the oil nipple is yanked from our mouths. We are one species that can control all our environment, but that doesn’t mean we can survive that environments decimation. And all species, even ours, must live within their means. You can’t pull crops out of sterile soil or water out of a dried creek bed. If it ain’t there, it ain’t there. There is no damn place in prepping for Happy Places. If you don’t embrace the cold hard realities, no amount of MRE’s ( Meal Ready to Eat (MRE), 12 Pack Case, Ration ) or AR-15’s are going to save you. That is why Yuppie Survivalists chap my ass so badly. They are buying expensive talismans that are intended to shield them from the reality of collapse. It doesn’t take money to survive, it takes attitude. Yes, you need some supplies. But with the attitude of frugal living and the smallest period of sacrificing luxury items anyone can prep quickly. They lack that attitude, so it is an insurmountable obstacle.

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I’m not saying you have to be a evil motorcycle marauder ( Marauder Flexible Nose Bridge Sports Motorcycle Goggles Smoke Lens ) or an uncaring Scrooge ( Scrooge ). I’m saying that you must develop a split personality ( was that Janus that had a face looking both ways? ). You must pretend to care about all the oxygen wasters rudely inhabiting your personal space now, in an effort to camouflage, but be prepared to turn ruthless and uncaring once things fall apart. No, don’t go out butchering babies, but come the time a starving mother scratches at the door be resolved to not answer her pleas to feed her spawn if you can’t spare the calories. You and yours come first, and if you allow yourself to be blinded by the fact a lack of energy cannot keep most folks alive in the near future you will condemn your family to die. Nice job being compassionate, jerkwad. Stop thinking the future will be the same as today. No more surplus energy means no more surplus population. I’m sorry we won’t be able to save those marginal people that hurt rather than strengthen the species. It’s part of reality and resource scarcity, not choice. And stop mixing up the message and messenger. Just because I point out reality doesn’t mean I like it. Hell, most of us are expendable right now, including myself. No one likes me as my only contribution, other than my shining hair example, is pointing out the inadequacies of others. I’m public enemy number one. I need petroleum surplus to survive just like the rest of you. But perhaps I have a small advantage by knowing this while most of you keep denying reality. Well, at least you slept well at night, knowing how righteous you are by caring about all Gods creatures.

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