die, ignorant scum!

DIE, IGNORANT SCUM!


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A guest article posted earlier.
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Our freeze dry guy over at Survival Acres has given up on trying to save all the ignorant mouth breathing banjo players.
http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=2285
Now, of course he was pretty cool about it and all sweet and lightness and didn’t try to insult anyone, so as you can imagine the above synopsis was purely my own. He’s been doing his things for five or six years or something to that effect, so I imagine that as the obvious end nears, he gets tired of answering the same stupid friggin questions. “If I buy a case of freeze dried beef colon, will that see me through any emergency including nuclear war, since obviously the Federal Emergency Management Agency has spent a quabizillion dollars to save my pasty ass rather than the President and his staff?” “Can I put my freeze dried food on layaway. I’ll pay five percent a year and in the event of an emergency, you’ll overnight FedEx it at no additional charge and then I can just owe you the balance, right?” “Now, when you say the entire planet is friggin doomed as the global temperature goes up a hundred degrees and nothing can save us, I can still continue my middle class lifestyle if I invest in stabilized gasoline, an AR-15 and an armored RV, right?”. Now, Survival Acres dude is all about making the Benjamin’s, selling overpriced over processed slop, but I think he also genuinely cares that people do something to survive in the coming collapse. So he probably burned himself out trying to help the idiots out there ( he plans on continuing posting, but it seems he will try to stop selling the collapse to the deniers ). Which, let’s be honest now, probably includes most of his customers since only the mentally challenged buy more than a smidge of commercial survival food ( stuff like powdered margarine or other items not easily duplicated, but even then sparingly because in a famine situation you want quantity over quality ).

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This might be a courageous move on his part, because the money is in selling salvation to the ignorant, not so much in selling an education to those with some common sense. If you will, mostly, look at yourselves my minions, if you still insist on sticking around after a few months of caustic and insulting articles, most likely you agree with my famous equation, soon to rival Einstein’s, that money substitutes for brains. -$=B. You may not have the fortitude to make the necessary moves to survive, but at least you are not delusional about what needs to be done. And don’t take offense, I’m just as guilty as you are. We are yeast in the vat, knowing the end is coming, and won’t jump out of the container. Our family and friends are in the vat, and our jobs pay for a nice suburban home so we stay where we are and hope we die before our civilization does. We mostly play at this rather than make the hard choices. Which leads to my point, that education is worthless. It does no good to try to convince people about the dangers of collapse because 99% of them won’t listen. Of the one person out of a hundred that you convince, he/she will acknowledge that your insights are brilliant, your reasoning sound and that they agree with you wholeheartedly that verily, the end is indeed nigh, and then there will be 101 reasons why they can’t get adequately prepared and then they will die along with the rest of the unprepared.

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In this category I include the delusional preppers. The mighty arsenal with two months food guy, the “we are farming and so will survive even if the surrounding twenty miles ( one days walk ) contains three million people” guy, the guy who thinks he can safely navigate through those three million to get to a fully stocked retreat. Or, the guy like myself who MIGHT have a sweet setup but only if the economy tanks first and the supply of natural gas dries up and most of the population migrates away due to the cold weather half the year. If that doesn’t happen, I’m faced with fifteen thousand people five miles away who will have no idea I’m packing food but who will find it regardless just by swarming the countryside after the town has been picked over. I’m just rolling the dice here, but then, so are the true rural dwellers that hope that gasoline remains available to them to commute for a job and supplies since they live so far away.

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A small detail I think a lot of folks have ignored in all this survival planning is that a lot of our information comes from forty and fifty years ago when there were a lot fewer people living in this country. We went from a thinly populated energy self sufficient nation to a jam packed overpopulated Third World country ( both in terms of an economy and a contentious fragmented tribal state of conflict ) with too little energy for its population ( and hence a problematic food future ). All that extra population didn’t just go to the cities, it also turned most small towns to medium sized ones. And our economy went from Mom & Pop stores to mega retail centers. Which means that our population NOT in cities went to surrounding suburbs for the jobs and supplies. Even our country folk are too close to cities for comfortable prep planning, or so far away the fuel issue might leave them stranded. And while its true that the Internet somewhat alleviates the “living near a job” issue, remember that the Internet is built on three wobbly legs. Atop a crumbling infrastructure, a failing electrical grid straining past capacity and an imploding consumer economic sector. Educating folks about collapse might work for a few clear headed individuals. Who then find it impossible to move far enough away. Who have, at best, a problematic time with the surrounding population come collapse. You can survive with cheap preps, but the cost will be complete rejection of any lifestyle seen for the last seventy years. If you can live poor, without being a consumer, and live outside the Consumer Supplied Areas, and do so without modern transportation, you will survive. The Urban Survivalists, the Suburban Survivalist, odds are 99% they die in the mass ocean of rioting starving masses. Seeing the problem isn’t even close to being enough. You have to want to achieve a solution regardless of physiological costs.

PART TWO TOMORROW

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