more gruel

MORE GRUEL

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Before we start today with what is admittedly a lame and pathetic subject ( but is what you get as I’m being harassed and overworked on this fine and dandy Monday morning and I haven’t been able to concentrate much ), but is better than nothing ( and speaking of better than nothing, I’m happy to see that term derided over at a certain Yuppie Survival site in regards to dollar store tools, which might usually be the case but not always as I’m still using a precision screwdriver set for my eye glasses lo and many years later so you can’t say they are all bad because some are actually better than nothing ) which is what you usually end up with around here but just like the articles subject, I at least spice it up differently each time, I’m going to veer onto a hate filled rant of, I hope, epic proportions presented in even more run on sentences. Last week I’m at the book store, bless their pee picken hearts for staying in business because even while being the only game in town they are reasonably priced and very friendly folks and don’t abuse their retail monopoly unlike some folks I could mention that start with the initials Wal-Mart, and I go on over to their reject book table ( if it looks too ugly for half retail, or if it sits on the shelf too long, or if they have too many copies, it goes on the ten cent table- it used to be a quarter but now it is a mere dime which really gets us greedy bastards piling the bag up with slop we would normally never read ) and made a modest purchase of a dozen books ( it would have been more but I bought a copy of Backwoodsman mag so I was reaching my budget in retail books for the week ) which included a paperback by Robin Cook, the doc turned suspenseful medical horror writer.

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Well, let me tell you, I had forgotten what a monkey molesting commie twat this jackass was. I know he is a sheltered New York Yankee, insulated from the common unwashed masses with his wealth, and has no idea the distinction between survivalists, militia or white supremacists, so he gets his information from the same good folks that shoot infant holding mothers in the head ( ten point bonus! ), stomp kittens for sport, barbeque children for the sins of their parents ( oh god, the humanity!!!! Constitutionalists!!!! Man the machine guns!! ) and starve millions of foreign children with embargoes, but that is no damn excuse for not talking their pile of lies at face value without giving it any thought and presenting it as propaganda in his novels. Or, he really is just a free market commie ( free market capitalistic mercantilism for the folks with wealth, communism for the poor folks ) and believes in all that plus gun control ( a comment in the book Vector was that forty thousand survivalists are potential terrorists, ready to explode ). If the new movie Contagion is in fact based on his book of the same name, and he is getting loyalties from it, DO NOT go and see that movie. If you do, you are supporting this dog humper.

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Idaho Homesteader commented that we should all deprive our children of all luxuries so they would enjoy the collapse. I’ll bet she thought I wouldn’t pick up on the sarcasm ( this from the last article on gruel a few days back ). Hey, I know you are staring daggers at me and cursing my hair, even thinking about getting a gypsy to put a real curse on it, but guess what? That was a damn good suggestion. I think we should be teaching our kids to enjoy the increased living standard the collapse will bring. If you pamper your kids now, with internal combustion engines, central heat and air and frozen foods, of course life after the fall will be hard and pitiful. But if you use those things as a reward rather than let them expect them as a god given right, deprivation will be seen as normal and they will have a better perspective on life. Remember the joy of joining the military at the start of WWII? It wasn’t because people thought Jews were really cool people and needed to be saved from Hitler ( I’d wager that outside of New York City, most folks were as anti-Semitic as Germans were ). It was because they got “three hots and a cot”, a step up from Depression era living. Army life was a step above HooverVilles and soup kitchen meals. Hell, I hated the army after a short while, but was absolutely thrilled at the feeding trough aspect. I’d seen minimal problems with getting the right kinds of food ( the 70’s were a pussy compared to the 30’s ) but enough that I knew an increased standard of living when I saw it.

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No one is asking you to put your kids on a perimeter guard detail in ten degree weather. Oh, it would build character and teach the little bastard to appreciate it when you turned the house heat up to 60. But that would be child abuse, so I can’t advocate it. All I’m saying is that if you raise kids to expect luxuries like a widely varied diet, they will grow up to be spoiled Yuppie pukes. And I’m not saying not to spice up foods. But do get them used to the same basic slop. Such as all breakfasts oatmeal, all lunches
whole wheat and then vary the dinners. As I’ve said, I choke down whole wheat for the first two meals each day, then “spoil” myself with a regular meal. This ensures I can transition to a 90-95% whole wheat diet as the need comes about. I’m already trained. It isn’t rocket science to train yourself to live off gruel, as soon as you get rid of the notion that you are better than 99% of all other soon to be serfs and somehow you can’t live on a historic diet. Bitches didn’t even get bread until recently ( gruel was the norm)
but Suzie the Spoiled Survivalist insists on duplicating the modern diet for post collapse child rearing. Look how sparing the rod has spoiled our kids. Now they can’t even think about living amidst nuclear ruins without luxury food.

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