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WHAT NOT TO BRING TO THE APOCALYPSE 1

If you’ve heard me once, you’ve heard me a dozen times, poo-pahing all the dearly beloved Yuppie Prepper boy toy gear.  You know, pretty much anything that is advertised on any of present generations King Survival Stud Prepper Guru God website and the dozens that copy it blandly and without much imagination.  Don’t get me wrong, there are good advertisements.  The “forever light” green glow stick ( you can read by them if they are kept at maximum charge.  Leaving it in the sunlight gives you about five minutes of reading.  You must recharge at night-get a high lumen LED flashlight running on AA batteries, with a AA solar recharcher.  When the glow stick dims, you hold the max output light next to the glowstick for a mere five to ten seconds or so and you are good for another five minutes of reading with the stick right on the page under the print line.  I’d recommend building a cardboard and duct tape box to contain the flashlight and stick so you don’t blind yourself operating it this way.  You can wait until the company comes out with a unit that does this for you, a recharge on a timer, but I’d be leery but open as it seems to contain a dozen other features which might make it fragile and/or expensive-the point of all this is to stretch out your batteries to an unprecedented period of time ) is an obvious exception.

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But mostly the highlighted gear are unneeded toys whose companies advertising goes to the survival expects most inclined to agree with them that these items are indeed not only needed but the very act of survival is in grave doubt if aforementioned gear is not owned in triplicate.  Now, I of course mean this in a general sense.  There are no chainsaw companies advertising on survival sites, and this is the most recommended item after a generator.  The “gurus” genuinely believe in their message, even if they all merely absentmindedly parrot the same information handed down from on high from the early ‘70’s on ( and THAT info was a collection of myths and wishful thinking and retail survivalist gear economically directed advice and other less that stellar origins ), and even if survival gear companies are usually devoted hobby members and are only seeking a “all in the family” target audience,  the whole incestuous mess in general and in the long run is not conductive to logic or genuine learning.

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THAT is why I’m so against needless toys.  They are indicative of sloppy thinking and perpetuate stereotypes and lead one into blind alleys and mental traps.  In and of itself, an unnecessary toy is nothing much besides another less than perfect attempt to hurry up and spend our company store chits before worthlessness is brutally imposed upon them.  After a series of them, however, they corrode your thinking ( an object becomes a talisman against hard work ethnic, the hard work of thinking logically and the hard work of intelligently budgeting ) and that is far more tragic than wasting money.  You must go into the Apocalypse with a clear mind, a sharp focus and unfuddled thinking.  Which is another reason I’m opposed to other unsavory practices such as urban living and over-dependence on a motor vehicle.  It isn’t just economics or safety but trying to learn how to use your mind more efficiently.  If you can’t make the sacrifice and move, even if it should be clear as day the most dangerous locations include your own, what other lazy mental habits will sabotage you? 

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If you can’t bike a reasonable distance to replace some of your driving ( yes, yes, I know.  If applicable-if you are clear of crowds, a vehicle is the lesser of evils.  As long as you have local water and supplies.  As far as a job, well, your situation will dictate the comfort level in that.  I say, the lesser addiction is best ), can you do any other exercise when needed?  Bike riding is THE most energy efficient mode of transportation ever.  If you can’t even handle that, good luck on that patrol hiking or even functioning with less sleep and less calories.  And if you can’t do a small change in routine such as that, how about when the ass truly falls out of western civilization?  Ditching your car, for those that can ( there is another lazy habit for you-you can’t even find the difference between your wants and your needs.  Most don’t want to give up their car, even if they could ), would be one of the best things you could do to start illuminating to yourself how easy prepping can be.  True prepping as in minimizing civilization ending dangers, not pretend prepping which is equipment to see you past imagined dangers.  Getting through an earthquake is important enough, but it isn’t even close to surviving an apocalypse.

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Anyway, as much as I’ll keep preaching on true mental conditioning later, for today it is time to wrap things up.  Next I’ll be focusing on a dozen too-hyped tools that are totally unnecessary ( I already told you the first two ).  You’ve heard it all here before, but I trust I have a few new potential disciples out there, and it never hurts to reinforce and repeat  importance lessons.   I also trust some of you will pass this article on to friends so as to spread the word.  Then, as a bonus for putting up with listening to me repeat myself, I’ll add a new category.  Gear that will be so easily available, widespread and not yet close to scarce that it doesn’t make sense for you to waste your money on.  It is like the oft repeated tale of the prepper that had the notion he would corner the post-apocalyptic market for soap, not realizing it was so easy to make with ingredients everyone had it was worse than a pipe dream.  I won’t give you any other hints, as I need you to burn with the fire of a thousand suns in your desire to read this series through.  More tomorrow on your same Bison Channel.

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