horde hype 2

HORDE HYPE 2

I like Patrice Lewis.  I have her paper book ( Simplicity Primer ) even if I’m not overly fond of her blog which seems too Milking The Goats generic, and I recently tried one of her new(ish) PDF books she has advertised over at Rawles site.  It was the one on replacing disposables ( you know, clothe instead of paper napkins, reusable Time Of The Month products, etc. ) and I learned a thing or two which is always nice since why else spend money, and even if I had a nit or two to pick it was a good buy.  Her recent article reprinted by Rawles on The Harsh Truth About Bugging Out Of Cities was one of those rare, newly thinking outside the box concepts that occasionally come along slowly advancing all our thinking about prepping and survivalism that has barely budged since the 1970’s.  Of course, read her article, but if I might sum up things to get our discussion moving along, a third of city slickers don’t own a car.  Not all those will have enough gas.  Criminals are the bulk of gun owners in most liberal state cities and will pick off most of the potential exodus.  Once the few get to any rural location, the locals will band together and guerrilla warfare their asses.  These are all good points, and I applaud the logical thinking attempting to dispel needless panic amongst preppers.  Alas, I also see large flaws in the reasoning.

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Like most older folks who grew up in a much less densely packed country, the author seems to not quite grasp how incredibly populated this country has become.  As our factories shuttered and manufacturing was replaced by finances as the primary driver of our economy, a short sighted strategy if there ever was one that by direct divine intervention has lasted long past its due date, Unions were  dismantled with unseemly haste and workers wages adjusted for inflation have been in continuous decline for forty plus years.  Now, obviously, workers can’t consume enough on declining wages to satisfy a growing banking industry that relies on consumption and debt to increase profits, so the system had to be tweaked.  The newly birthed feminist movement was hijacked to double the workers available, further dampening wages while increasing consumption, and when that was completed the next best thing to do was to ship in immigrants by the Third World Country-full to depress wages, increase purchases, and replace the falling birth rate of women busy in the workplace.  More women working, more immigrants working ( with the same amount of money being spent on total wages, four times as many workers each earning a quarter of what they were-Union wages of $25 an hour being replaced by minimum wages of $7 ) and more of a birth rate than most aging Oil Age Industrial countries impoverished the population but increased the profits of the elite. 

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With all of this immigration growth, added to all the Boomers having grandkids-a drop in births but still a huge base to go from, this country has seen a LOT of population growth and most places have filled up to double or triple what it was when we were kids.  Our normal was small town and we deny the evidence of our senses, tenaciously clinging to our fantasies and dreams.  Refusing to acknowledge our once resource bursting country is now a hollow shell of pollution fed by a drought stricken strip of depleted soil churning out GMO crops in the Heartland, the teeming masses on both coasts clamoring for every kernel plus whatever can be imported.  There are so many people even in the driest desert that even if almost none survive the exit from the cities, millions remain poised to invade the countryside.  And that is just the start of the problem.

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