Saturday, May 31, 2014

event horizon


EVENT HORIZON

An event horizon is the boundary from where you are safe from an observable position.  Or, better yet, the point of no return.  Usually referred to the point where you get sucked into a black hole in space and who knows what happens.  You could be transported back to Victorian England where dinosaurs besiege London, or you could disintegrate painfully.  Whatever happens, you ain’t gonna tell everyone else if its good or bad because you ain’t in this universe anymore.  Any rational space traveler is going to stay the hell away from the event horizon unless he can Suicide By Planet Governor, pulling both of them down in a splendid orgy of revenge.  Now, I submit to you for your consideration just this:  survivalists are usually living on the wrong side of the event horizon.  As soon as the collapse of civilization creates a black hole they are going to be sucked in and never be heard of again.  And I don’t just mean the large urban areas they are inhabiting although that plays a part ( as I’ve said before, you are in as much danger from living in a city of a million as you are living in a town of one thousand if you can't escape the notice of the starving mobs ).  I’m talking about the actual dependence you have created on most things long distance trade related.  Civilizations don’t actually happen without trade, so even if our three thousand mile salads and our trans-Pacific sole source of shoes is silly as hell, in relative terms it is no more dangerous than Greece being dependent on its next door Mediterranean countries for grain. 

*

Any dependence sucks you in within target.  If you own twenty acres yet must commute by car twenty miles for a job, you are still as exposed to the death of the petro-dollar when suddenly no one but Canada will accept our currency for the sixty plus percent of oil imports we are still dependent on even after fracking- just as exposed as the city apartment dweller.  Which is why I still think it is smarter to have paid for junk land instead of an in debt farm.  Intuitively, it is far smarter to be able to perpetually produce food rather than rely on a dwindling set amount.  Yet with storage food, as imperfect as that strategy is, importantly you escape being sucked into the system that is set to collapse ( obviously you need other factors in your favor such as distance from crowds and paid off land ).  By embracing a less perfect solution you just might be able to lessen the original problem.  I understand it is counterintuitive.  You think farming makes you less dependent.  And it would, a hundred some odd years ago before you needed debt and a petroleum dependent job to pay for that farmland, before taxes had to be paid for in Greenbacks rather than In Kind.  Being dependent on the system is like being in the trees and hence unable to see a forest. 

END
Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon ad graphics at the top of the page. You can purchase anything, not just the linked item. Enter Amazon through my item link and then go to whatever other item you desire. As long as you don’t leave Amazon until after the order is placed, I get credit for your purchase.  For those that can’t get the ads because they are blocked by your software, just PayPal me occasionally or buy me something from my Amazon Wish List once a year.
*
All My Contact Info, Books For Sale, Links:
 

11 comments:

  1. Dear King Hairy,I tend to disagree with you (to a degree),on your point of paid off land,(junk land).If the shtf,in what regard is junk land better than a mortgaged producing lot? Granted,its paid for,(or cheap payments),but produces nothing other than a place to sit? Consider the odd's of an EMP event,(more probable than an invading horde of ugly armpit haired lesbian biker zombies).If all the power went out,the mortgage records would vanish also!(sure,they have a paper copy someplace,right?).They can issue a repo notice,but how do they deliver it? Snail mail?Sure,the post office will be up and running! Will they drive out to serve you? Where is the gas?The bankers will be doing the best they can to survive it also,not worried about business matters(just sitting on the pile of gold bars will take all they're time).I say buy an affordable plot(outside of town) that can produce,and when the end comes,stop making payments and squat it out! LEO has better things to do than serve evictions,(even if the bank could notify them),and they have no way to contact you,so...(by the way,your use of ( and ) could be the downfall in your writing skills,as it is annoying.Use a comma instead).

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. My point is that if you plan your finances around an instant collapse, you won't get one. You must plan on the bankers screwing you.

      Delete
  2. Junk land CAN produce food- not enough for resell at significant profit, but water, and a greenhouse can make almost everywhere capable of providing enough vitamins to keep you healthy, if not enough calories. Glass, Polycarbonate, and Insulation are available - and if you aren't too picky maybe even cheap to the point of free... Rainfall collection even in deserts can work to keep a 'kitchen garden' green.
    Of course this is just a supplement for your foraging, storage, and other sources of food- but every source helps.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Even lush fertile land isn't going to feed you unless you have enough of it

      Delete
    2. I live in Phoenix Az,there is no rainfall to collect! So far this year,we are 3 inches shy of normal.I can barely get weeds to grow with daily watering,the only garden plants that will grow are in the tree's shade.I am lucky enough to keep tomato plants year round,if there is no big freeze,and several fruit trees.The soil here is bad,and no leafy veggies will survive in 110 degree heat and sun,with near zero humidity.Sorry,the open desert is not a happy place for a survival garden!

      Delete
  3. Debt kills. The only way we have made it is by being debt free.

    And don't get signed up for contracts. I do have a contract for satellite internet but I had no other choice.

    By having few bills, you can spend more when you are flush and you can tighten the belt when thing get lean

    Idaho Homesteader

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. And being debt free is one of the best feelings in the world.

      Delete
  4. http://www.rexresearch.com/airwells/airwells.htm

    air wells, fog fences and dew ponds

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks, Vlad. Again, a priceless fountain of information.

      Delete
    2. Yes he is and luckily he comes here to spout that wisdom since he doesn't do his own blog anymore - as far as I can tell.

      Delete
    3. Having your own blog is a bit overrated.

      Delete

COMMENTS HAVE BEEN CLOSED