four per mile

FOUR PER MILE


On August 25th, a day that might, given the state of the mainstream media and their eternal quest to find the most blatantly retarded factoid and shrill it up as actual news, go down in infamy as the day our good buddy and fellow brother blogger Creekmore tried to be all sly and pull a fast one on us. He was comparing the population figures per square mile of his neck of the woods, rural Tennessee where there are actually too few sheep to be nervous but where I think it has been reported that the faint tinkle of banjos have been heard, and happening to just casually, almost while seeming to pull the location out of thin air, mention the figures for Elko county, where not only are sheep very afraid when the bordellos run out of two for one coupons two days before payday, but where yours truly has domiciled. It seems that Tennessee is positively crawling with shifty eyed half-Yankees with something like 40 persons per square mile, while Elko county is four people per ( you thought this article was something about the gas mileage on my retired truck and my unadulterated love for bicycles, didn’t you? ).

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Okay, I might be off on the TN population figure. It might be more. I am pretty sure that most families have a few Yankees in their woodpile though, being a border state and all. His point was that his state had the resources necessary to take care of all those folks, so a low population density isn’t needed ( actually, the main point of the article seemed to be that east of the Mississippi has oodles of great retreat locations ). Hey, no argument here. If you have twenty three cousins all within a few miles of your holler, it might be crowded but they all have your back also. Well, not Uncle Ezekiel, he’s a bit of a loner since the UFO’s abducted him and probed him a mite long. But everyone else does. And, chances are there just have to be a few second or third cousins out there that are pretty hot, Daisy Duke like, not just HoverRound candidates. Remember, just not FIRST cousins. That’s where those banjo’s come from. There are plenty of great retreat locations, even back east. Even crowded ones. There are a certain amount of stupid places to be, like a huge metro area. Everything else is manageable with precautions. And every one of them must conform to your notions, not other writers. You are the one living there and staking your life on that decision. But of course, this is just like 9mm verses 45 or any other debate. We can’t leave it alone, we have to keep talking it to death. Hey, talking stuff to death is what you suckers pay me to do ( and I mean suckers as One Born Every Minute, not ghetto vernacular type suckers ). And, before I go on, 9mm is a limp wristed fag toy. I’ll allow it if you are using a suppressor for close in sentry removal ).

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For the last ten thousand years or so, farmers and herder/nomads have had a rivalry thing going on. Kind of like the Squids verses the Jarheads ( although, really, when one guy wears an orange juice squeezer on his head and the other has a broomstick up his ass, why is either feeling superior? ). They are from different worlds. So, no matter what I say, if you are inclined toward farming, that is the path you will take. I’m all jiggy with that, homeslice. You trade off, crowds for growing food. Nomads trade off no crowds for food on the hoof. Farmers can grow a huge surplus and buy a professional army. Nomads live sustainably off the land and control their population. And serve as their own army. Farmers are one bad period of weather away from famine. Nomads one hoof and mouth disease away from needing to kill the farmers ( going up against fixed defenses, not their strong point ) or die themselves. Neither is better, it just depends on what you prefer. But, keep something in mind.

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A huge land area desert county with sparse population will not be an attraction to surrounding urban areas. You won’t see too many folks trying to move there. After all, sage brush is not edible. Any mild weather farming area will be a magnet. But here is something even better. Not only will most of the current natives move out prior to the die-off, after that event you will have left a population of only several square miles per one person. Not four people per square mile currently, at least four square miles per person! This is exciting stuff, believe it or not. Not too many of us are capable of living completely alone. We need some kind of companionship and support network. But I’d rather be part of a few hundred person settlement than a few tens of thousands. There is more control of whatever political process is taking place. Your voice is heard, not ignored. Lacking anonymity, people usually act more decent.

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Most of the West is already pretty deserted, and those areas with population are only there because of a huge infrastructure that was built when oil was so abundant it was practically a nuisance, and labor was dirt cheap. Oil Down, people move the hell out of there. Again, you can’t eat sagebrush. For those that can hang in there, you have elbow room and all non-related neighbors. If you aren’t hung up on farming. Not a perfect plan, not much is given today’s circumstances. But great if you want to minimize people sharing your oxygen. Because arid regions will more easily withstand the die-off ( folks are leaving, not trying to get in ). Four square miles per person. Sure, it is crap land. But all yours and your nervous sheep.

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