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BLACK APACHE

Today we talk not about a cool looking attack helicopter but about placing yourself in another’s shoes so you might envision what the Apocalypse has in store for you.  As Americans we have a really hard time even defining reality, let alone agreeing we should accept its existence.  Imagine if you were born in the northeast to educated parents who while no longer Rockefeller rich certainly are never going to have any troubles paying the heating bill.  They went to Ivy League schools and are in the upper percentile earners, and you will be doing the same.  Your primary schools were structured to keep out the riffraff, as is your property tax supported well funded police force.  It isn’t as if you have a butler or maid, and it isn’t as if you will be doing anything else but working like an sixty-five hour a week dog, but just from your surroundings and inherent opportunities there is a certain disconnect between your life and a bigger reality surrounding you but kept at arms length.  You are a bit clueless about how the other 90% lives.  You might play at being ghetto with the lingo and music, but all White Bread kids do that as a rebellious statement to their parents, too ignorant in their short time on earth to recognize that their guardians might be displaying a survival trait rather than a lazy ignorance. 

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You will probably be listening to Rush Limbaugh, the darling of the working moneyed class who advocated starving the poor if they can’t find a job so that your already low tax rate is reduced further.  After all, if you didn’t work, how will America stay great?  The poor can serve in the military to safeguard your corporation who will use the subsidized commodities from around the world, and the poor can pay the taxes for that military because they were too lazy to go to school to be as smart as you and so your superior social class was earned by you.  If the poor want to avoid being cannon fodder ( contrary to the propaganda that the all volunteer army is so well trained they can’t ever die, the military is not something you turn down in flyover country if you ever want a career or even a first job, and low mortality rates are mainly achieved by selective engagement and air strike achieved civilian famine and disease, not by training on par with college educations or corporation retreats ) or paying too many taxes, they merely need to be as smart as both Rush and your average 10%er offspring. 

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Or so they tell themselves.  And any of us who will listen ( going by the average Limbaugh advertisement, most listeners are old and frail and on the verge of dying before they can cash in their Rush approved investments, but back in my day all the young gung-ho ladder climbing pseudo-Libertarians  loved to listen ).  Now, you and I, older by a generation, can easily pick apart all the fallacies in the above example.  We’ll congratulate ourselves on being smarter and wiser, which we are, but then miss the entire big picture.  Because even if we are more reality centered, more aware, we still suffer from the same mental blinders as Eric Eastcoast.  We still are looking from a position of privilege and don’t see it.  We don’t see it because we think we have it bad compared to the 10%.  Well, almost all Americans ( aside from most Blacks and most reservation Indians [ those without casinos ] ) have it better than most of the rest of the world.  And the rest of the world mostly has it much better than 99% of people throughout history ( apart from some Ebola Country populations or massacred refugees ). 

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So how can most of us have even the remotest inkling of how life will really be like after a collapse?  Even our fiction is totally discolored by our privilege.  More Next Article.

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