commander zero's fiction

COMMANDER ZERO’S FICTION



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You all know how I feel about Yuppie Scum in general and Yuppie Scum Survivalists in particular, but a great everyday survival skill is being able to spread the blarney thick and wide, so I usually make reassuring sounds so that each person I’m insulting thinks they are the exception to my displeasure and wrath. I think I’m quite skilled at bullspitting, which will come in handy after the apocalypse. I’ll go up to the Idaho survivalists and give them an M-60, which even though it is one of the worst infantry arms of all times gets them pretty excited because they all sport wood at the thought of semi-auto’s but positively lose all restraint and have multiple orgasms when it comes to belt fed full auto. Then I can go over to the Jesus Freaks in Utah and I’ll whip up something about devil worshiping or better yet false deity worship like druid tree alters and get those guys worked up into a lather, and hopefully those two groups go after each other and leave me alone to conquer the Great Basin. Anyway, as far as Commander Zero goes, he really isn’t that bad of a guy, for a Yuppie Scum Survivalist. Anyone that ignores my displeasure at their perverse way of doing things, who callously disregards my disapproval, you just got to love them. I admire the Commander for sticking to his totems. He loves his arsenal and freeze dried foods and other toys and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. His blog is just his thoughts and he isn’t out to try to preach or convert. I enjoy it for a change of pace ( which is not to say I agree with his stance, because I myself am out to preach and convert and I take umbrage at most who fail to succumb to my wisdom and radiant spellbinding perfect hair ).

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The Commander was musing about survivalist fiction.

http://commanderzero.com/?p=2536

I pretty much liked his analysis. For instance, no chance of The Road becoming a reality since we won’t see a nuclear winter, or in the instance of Lucifer’s Hammer we have almost zero odds of seeing a comet hit. The silliness of The Road Warrior ( which, yes, had flimsy science behind it but was great in other ways ). In his closing statements he talked about how no fiction covered what was happening now. On the face of it, true. But we aren’t just in an economic collapse because we can be. We are in an economic collapse because our energy supply has been and is contracting. We aren’t inflating because we can, but because we must. We inflate about six to nine percent a year to get our one half percent of growth. Of course it isn’t the same as increased oil availability fueling growth. Inflation of the currency is always just a temporary fix that feeds on itself. It of course makes things worse, but it kicks the can down the road. Before it supplies the tempting path to our eventual doom, it keeps the bankers in business, who are mostly idiots but there will be a few that use the reprieve to bail out ( I think the best part of the book Castigo Cay was the rich dude who was building a self-sustaining Bahaman island to weather the storm- the author of course smeared the prepper movement by making him a sick and perverted sexual kidnapper. Which of course most of you forget or ignore because he also authored a bunch of militia porn you all read as you stroke your plastic carbines ). It keeps the Right Wingnuts on the radio, blaming everything on Obammy ( I hate the slick little turd myself, but I also realize that ANY sitting president, captaining the Titanic, would do as bad of a job ). This in effect distracts us from the real dangers, so I place a lot of blame on Rush and Glen for their part in keeping the establishment in business ( the fact that Beck hawks survival supplies does nothing to redeem him, and in fact might not be helping our cause ).

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But, I’ll try to stop screeching in a panicky and high pitched voice about the economy. My point is that, in fiction, I’d like to nominate two books that might be relevant to the Commander’s discussion. Alex Scarrow’s Last Light and Afterlight. The first used a compressed oil supply collapse ( terrorists destroy Saudi terminals/production facilities ) rather than a long drawn out supply contraction like we are already seeing, but he almost had to given that I would have been the only reader to buy a thousand page per volume novel series that actually addressed the level of complexity such a treatment would require. Essentially the book was about how a regular normal family would be thrown into chaos with no oil and no food or order. The second book was even better. It takes place ten years later and is all about bare bones survival using brute muscle labor and some salvage. And, taking place in the UK, it takes place amidst a near zero firearms future. And, yes, oh gun fag, it will happen here also. We’ll have plenty of guns, but no ammo. The future won’t be all about fiercely busting caps into bitches, yo, but more like the following scenario. Remember Humongus in Road Warrior? He had a scoped pistol and just a few rounds of ammo. Almost used as a status symbol, a royal staff. In the near future after the collapse, your king will be the one who still has ammo ( him, or a close inner circle dude ) for his bolt action. He lies in wait until the enemy villages mayor is in his sites, snipes his ass, and then his legions of Janissaries surges in with edged weapons ( most salvaged Made In China stainless steel ninja reproduction swords that lose their edge after one disembowelment ) to act as cannon fodder ( they might literally be charging a black powder cannon ). So, yes, there will be an almost zero firearms environment even here in the US, and I think this novel is a nice reflection of that reality. As is the general theme of NO oil, NO modern conveyances, and massive die offs. The economic collapse is temporary, before the real collapse begins.

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