fear mongering

FEAR MONGERING


I don’t know if it is still posted, but last weeks Woodpile Report was outstanding. I know Ol’ Remus has had nice things to say about me. While certainly my due, I do appreciate other acknowledging my demigod like superiority over the mere mortals that pollute my very air. But thank goodness I had posted his site link on my web page the week previous to his glorious review of my works or I would certainly be looking like a giant suck ass right now. Sometimes my timing is actually pretty good. Like being one of the first to tell you that you would die a horrible and elongated death if you consumed dairy contaminated by Japanese fallout. You didn’t believe me then ( silly Jim, he’s so paranoid! ), and now you silently curse the very day you were born because of that, but after you read today’s article you will be able to excuse yourself.

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Rawles has furthered his case for relocating with some current hoo-ra-ra in Florida over something to do with toll road payments. Hey, I could have told you Florida’s government sucks infected monkey testicles through a straw. I probably already did in fact. They cost me two years lost higher wages through sting operations ( using the Junior Pigs that look old enough to buy tobacco or alcohol ) and changed the terms of my divorce to both get arrears and extend the time of my child support. Depending on how you do the math they cost me a minimum of $20,000 in gross wages. Which is more than a years income. But don’t forget that every state has its own particular ways of screwing you over. Even the beloved Idaho ( who da ho? ). It is only the luck of the draw if you DON’T get screwed. And the odds work against you more nowadays as the apparatus fights for its life. If you think that any civil servant is going to sacrifice benefits or a pension so that they play fair you are indeed living in a fools paradise. And his approved states, while agricultural areas, also are infested with socialistic governments. Their behavior will only get worse. Which, as bad as it will be, only mirrors the problems seen by serfs yoked to the land. After stability is regained, being a farmer will be beneficial. During the collapse you are a sitting duck. Don’t worry, I don’t expect you to believe me. Or even if you do, you might rightly just chalk it up as the lesser of evils. I’m down with that, dawg. And being a stationary target, semi-auto’s might actually be what you need. Just please try to keep in mind that there are other ways of feeding yourself.

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I’ve put my book, The Frugal Survivalist, on Kindle for $2.99. I don’t see a link at the paper version page but if you do a search at Amazon both options pop up. For those that simply must have the book but don’t want to read it on a regular computer. One day I’ll get around to posting the direct page link.

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The Ranger Man brought up fear mongering in a recent post:

http://www.shtfblog.com/newsweek-apocalypse-now-and-shtf-blog-design/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SHTFblog-AreYouReady+%28SHTF+blog.com+-+are+YOU+ready%3F%29

This is of course a subject near and dear to my heart, as I love surfing the Doom Wave. And unlike those surfer dudes, all righteous and knarly and such, who surf the big tsunami and expect to die in the attempt, I’ll be happy to survive the experience. Well, the surfing part. I’m sure out amongst you is one extreme asshat, building up a powerful hatred, ready to smite me with the approval of Baby Jesus because I said something that got you all butt hurt. So I’ll be dead about five minutes after the End Of Civilization despite all my preparations. And I doubt pleading for my life, willing to swap out the wife even, will do any good. Which is okay. The journey is the important part. I just hope I can inflict a parting wound that will fester and kill my attacker.

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Let me just come right out and say it. The only people that will change their lives from fear mongering are around the age of five and below. I’m not talking about fear being instilled by direct action from others, but just the reporting or talking about of fear. Proclaiming that we are all going to die will influence no one that isn’t already frightened. Then fear mongering only educates them in the finer points of their paranoia. I can scream about why we will die and all of you will simply ignore me, going about your business of driving SUV’s and paying a mortgage. To you, I’m just an entertaining nut bag. You have your world paradigm hard wired into your brain. Without true trauma, no one changes their basic programming after kindergarten. Which kind of underlines the basic idiocy of the schools attempts at brainwashing. But then, they can’t even educate the basics so I imagine we should set the bar of approval for public education pretty low. Anyway, regardless of the facts or logic of what I give you, you will find one excuse or another to ignore what I am saying if it doesn’t already agree with your own outlook. Fear mongering is harmless to the average person.

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Now, what about those ready and willing to be scared crapless? Is fear mongering going to harm them? How? They are already primed and ready to fly off the handle. If no one scares them they will just scare themselves. In this case, fear mongers actually do some good since they do point out reasonable fears rather than unfounded ones ( even Y2K did immense good at giving folks a great ten year head start when everything was much cheaper and employment much more secure ). We do the major worrying, analysis and research and tell you HOW afraid you should be. You’ve already decided on your own to be afraid. So, to the unbelievers I provide entertainment and to the paranoid I provide guidance. Am I a super duper guy or what? You are welcome.

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