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MALTHUSIAN PREPPER 4

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A decent, even if flawed in some aspects like all the rest, survival plan would mimic the Appalachian hillbillies.  A remote and inaccessible area, poor in agricultural land coveted by centralized states, inhabited by clannish insular families completely divorced from the money economy, so poor that a Great Depression is just another morning scratching by like their chickens.  They can feed themselves, and not much more.  The Rawles Plan pretends to copy this but fails in spirit and detail.  They have the remote, uncoveted lands down, but nothing else.  The lands are too parched, and getting more parched by the decade, they share nothing amongst themselves but religion ( family ties are far more important, the religion just being superglue to that structure-as well as a coping mechanism ) which is too frail given the post-oil distances between villages involved, and most importantly, they are stupid addicted to money.  It is the Mammon reliance that is so dangerous, even more so than their Yuppie Scum-ness ( addiction to luxury ).  Poor people have coping mechanisms you only learn in the school of hard knocks.  You don’t learn that from books or consultants.  Preppers can’t cope after money goes away, even if they pretend money is preparing them.

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A Malthusian Prepper is a survivalist who understands the worst is going to happen-massive die-off of the 99%+ scale since overpopulation has already far surpassed food supply.  The last time this happened, several decades ago, abundance of petroleum enabled us to stage the Green Revolution.  Before, petroleum inputs went to replacing human labor with machines.  Then, we started putting even more petroleum into denuded soil and by irrigating dry lands.  The Green Revolution only had marginal seed manipulation involved.  It was a one time shot to mask over overpopulation and even now has been unraveling for several years as petroleum supplies have been contracting ( both as in gross amounts pumped and as net energy used to extract remaining supplies ).  Several factors mitigate these negative trends.  First, far more wars are underway, providing a safety valve in the way of removing starving mouths.  Cold War energy surplus weapons are now being used in an orgy of fighting as the most marginal, food deficit, most draught effected regions are the first to see imported foodstuffs endangered and that resource control contested.  Second, right now what we are seeing is not a plunge in energy supplies but a plunge in delivered net BTU’s.  The energy flow is the same, even if more is being diverted to pump and process that energy in the first place.  The shortages are not critical, not yet, since the first energy use to go is the luxury sector. 

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Third, after starving marginal populations and marginal money sectors, the economic machine which provides credit to keep the international trade alive which delivers food from depopulated countrysides crawling with agriculture machines to overcrowded urban populations is being kept alive by cannibalization.  The financial sector is grossly corrupt and grossly inefficient, but without it food wouldn’t be able to be transported to the teeming mouths.  And we all know that the financial mammoth has not long for this earth.  It is a zombie structure even now.  The smart survivalist knows this and divorced himself from it to the extent possible.  The prepper stays in its warm embrace and endangers himself.

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