not all problems

NOT ALL PROBLEMS


As per the remarks of a loyal minion in the comments section with the article “Ethanol Horde”, serious preppers must admit that not all problems can have a solution. Great observation. This is of course as true as can be but your rank and file doesn’t want to admit it. And any idiot with a keyboard that writes on survivalism certainly doesn’t want to admit he doesn’t have all the answers. Your average survivalists puts a lot of effort into research and a lot of money into supplies. Naturally you don’t want to see any of that go to waste so you might tend to place unwarranted faith into what you have done, and apply that unwisely. Thinking a stockpile of ammunition is sufficient as you go around spraying and praying in an approved military manner ( if I just sacrifice enough manna to the Semi-Auto god, he shall bless me and protect me ). When the very simple fact is that there is absolutely no good answer to the problem of keeping our modern arms operational. With improvised ammo, if any is available ( and if you tell me strike anywhere matches I shall scream until blood spurts out of my nose- the new formula matches are less combustible than when the military manual was written ), you corrode your rifle or your cases and soon enough you are back to the same problem but worse.

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We can talk about it until the cows come home, but really almost under any serious scenario most of us no matter how prepared will not survive the initial die-off. We are well prepared to survive a serious economic contraction, and we could survive nicely once things shake themselves out, but none of us have the resources to actual survive the process of devolving political control in a populated area. When you start with a centralized government run on oil and end up with a localized agrarian society, in between is all the fighting between groups for who is to become the new king. If you have anything worth stealing, you die. If you are part of the fighting you roll the dice and fifty fifty you die. You could have the New World Orders most valuable skill and you will die at the hands of indifferent hungry mobs. You could die in a famine stricken city or die in a isolated spot cut off from resupply. Hell, you could die from nuclear attacks as the worlds armies run out of conventional arms and must resort to the missiles to starve off one more attack ( or try to steal the last of resources ).
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Not that everything is hopeless. You still go driving your car every day even knowing that this might be the leading cause of death. You take extra precautions and trust in the luck of the Wee People that some asswhore doesn’t T-bone you as they are distracted texting. In the case of survivalism, you will most likely die, but you fight the good fight until the end. You try your hardest, but don’t bemoan your fate as you lie dying in a ditch. Hopefully you did all you could. The cards were always stacked against you. Just make sure you play a mean game while you can. I think that most people place way too much faith in the fact that they will live close to forever. Damn, after a certain point, who wants to? I’m content to just let fate strike me down as the fickle bitch sees fit. If I’m going to have a heart attack peddling my bike, fine. Irony is funny, after all. What better way to go than the exercise that is supposed to keep you fit?

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Let’s say you are battening down the hatches, arming yourself for the zombie assault, wearing a mask in case of government induced contagion ( I’m pretty sure that AIDS had a bit of help getting here and spreading so quickly in specific areas, so I would hold no surprise if a barnyard flu outbreak is in our future ), you’ve bugged out to the concrete bunker, etc., etc. Then a left field Murphy’s Law happens. Say, the spouse, who has been hiding her affair with the UPS man ( and here you thought she was helping with the finances with all those E-Bay sales ), decides the time is right to unlatch the backdoor one night and lets in her new and improved husband. They both live happily ever after on your supplies. The point being, there is no way you can solve that potential problem. And I’m sure you could think of 100 different scenarios like that. You could drive yourself crazy doing that ( literally, like becoming a paranoid schizophrenic ). Do your best, and don’t worry about the inevitable.

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Christ on a rocket propelled cracker, I’m feeling like double warmed over crap today. I’ve been sick for a few days, sore throat morphing into fever and work has been a challenge. This morning I barely biked into work I was so weak ( looking on the bright side, even though it was 3 degrees out I was quite comfortable with a long warm flash ). So, today being Friday as I write this, my article might be mediocre and a bit on the short side. I’m hoping I kick this by the end of the weekend.

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