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The whole terminology of the survivalists field is highly suspect and ever changing, so any descriptions given here are subject to change and really only used as a temporary metric for illustrative purposes.  Survivalists are usually the stereotypical cabin in the woods, cammo wearing rifle toting paranoid wackos whereas preppers are survivalists lite.  Pussy survivalists.  People so fearful they invent a life vest that sooths their fears but does little to keep them safe.  I mean, come on!  So anchored to the money economy in fears that giving up a mortgage or suffering a credit score downgrade is more frightening than the ass actually falling out of civilization, anything they might do towards preparing for Not Business As Usual is superseded by their preparations to survive in today’s crony capitalistic wage slavery.  The difference between survivalists and preppers is that survivalists are not scared to give up on today’s trinkets available to enslave us.  The golden handcuffs.  Everyone prepares differently and everyone has a different idea as to what the most dangerous threat is.  You can have preppers more deeply prepared than survivalists.  For instance, a desert rat living out in the boonies, unemployed, with a few years of wheat, is not going to be as deeply prepared as a prepper on a country road ( to be tied to the electrical grid ) with a basement of freeze dried foods, alternate energy to service the well, a tractor run on bio-diesel, thousands of rounds per semi-auto gun and all the rest.  But who is better prepared?

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If you said the country prepper, wrong answer.  He is dependent on a strong functioning economy, and his self-sufficiency is going to be sorely tested after a collapse as he will need scores of young strong bodies, with attached families of worthless abilities, to protect his food production system.  Any surviving power structure will immediately target said system.  The desert rat, on the other hand, has nothing to offer anybody.  He has divorced himself from the system, to the extent possible.  He needs less, wants less and offers less.  It is all well and good to be food self sufficient, but nobody pays attention to the infrastructure surrounding and protecting that production system.  It is a chicken and egg system.  You need soldiers and their system in place to protect fields but you need fields to arm a group of soldiers.  Without storage food in place for your army, there is no army to protect food production.  And farmer/militiamen are most likely a pipedream as any group of armed marauders can attack, one wave after another of different competing groups, one attack from fresh troops after another until one group prevails over the former owners.  There is no one correct answer, but usually today’s perception that independent farmers will survive with sovereignty is ill conceived.  The Backwoods Home model is good only for economic contraction without collapse. 

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