apocalypse 101 part 2 of 2

APOCALYPSE 101 part 2 of 2

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Notice how I nicely didn’t even get started making fun of people who worship the military since their handlers tell them that they had better be jingoistic, or else!  I can sometime mostly hold my tongue.  So, what do you get when you consult former military types ( either watching their TV show, or reading their blog )?  Why, advice that reflects the organization they used to work for, the nation states armed forces.  Which use disposable ammunition and weapons and disposable people to project its will, which is to conquer territory ( no nation state has ever expended blood and treasure to be nice to other people or to spread democracy.  We came out of WWII colonizing half the globe and got rich off it, yet today the sheep still bleat on cue when recounting how we made the world safe from Hitler ).  So, preppers flock to those people for advice.  You’d be better reading up on guerrilla groups throughout time, but since they are not agricultural empires, the lesson goes unheeded.  Anyway, a couple of young parents on the Colorado plains want to repel mobile marauders come collapse, yet are unwilling to rely on help from neighbors.  The Marine Group thinks this is kind of retarded, which does impress me despite myself ( I’m not allowed to hate Jarheads as much now, with my son in their ranks ).  They set up an hour time limit defensive position set-up followed by a group attack using paintballs to try to demonstrate to the couple how vulnerable they are without neighborhood help.  In quick order, the boys demonstrate how wonderful suppressive fire and ammunition waste is, and the couple is “killed”.  Lesson learned?  Not so much.  The husband still refuses to abide by the lesson and can’t see the need to rely on neighbors.

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I mean, you can’t blame him.  You and I both know how difficult other people are.  Most of his neighbors are probably the last to stockpile supplies and the first to head for his place ( especially now that they saw him on TV.  If I can get Netflix, as cheap as I am, all these Farmers Franks and Francine’s can too ).  You can bet all those neighbors will gang up against him, since Americans are completely deficient in math ( despite more and more mandatory advanced classes in public school ) and they can’t divide the one families three man years of food into their total of thirty three people to cipher “famine next month instead of today”.  This guy is oblivious to the possibility of downgrading his calorie delivery system to just grains, then stockpiling for his neighbors ( as much as it pains him ), or better yet selling his ranch and moving from this soon to be second Oklahoma Dust Bowl ( the wife talks of a lifetime of observed weather now changing, and the hubby being too stubborn to hear, but that could just be Politically Correct film crews playing up the Girl Power angle ). 

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Yes, I understand this is just TV, and poorly scripted “reality” TV to boot ( although to give Beelzebub his due the forth segment on the show was the boys building a Faraday cage and demonstrating it, which was wicked cool-that alone worth the watching ), so I’m well aware this is just a version of me Yelling At The TV.  Yet, these shows seem to serve a purpose in highlighting the absurdity of others plan, which hopefully also shows you the flaws in yours.  And if nothing else, they can be a bit fun.

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