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KILLING TIME 4

For killing time during the Die-Off ( the duration will not be measured by the end of hostilities-that will never end as the time between violence is far less in decentralized social groupings- but by the insane levels of people dying off ), I would suggest you show hesitation in doing What Is Expected Of You By The “Experts”.  Training, to be effective, is a life long process which not only reinforces what you’ve already learned but incrementally improves.  Take for instance a really good cook.  She started as a very young lass and has been at it ever since.  Look at my writing.  I sucked when I first started.  Twenty years ago I was barely tolerable.  Ten I had just started getting mad skills.  Today I am brilliant but in ten more years I will make today’s efforts laughable.  Look at your job.  You can do it in your sleep ( which you probably have to since you need two jobs anymore ) but more importantly you are always improving.  Your company lays you off to save 25% payroll and gets someone at most 10% as effective.  Training is an ongoing process ( I don’t just Read Books, but continue my lifelong college ).  You can learn very, very little from cramming in all the perceived needed training to help you survive.  Even if you start now, but especially in a month or three of a stressful bug-in.

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You still need training, for if nothing else there is familiarization.  But eight hours a day trying to learn wild plant identification, knapping, military tactics, wilds navigation, passive solar systems and about a hundred other skills?  Not on your life.  Learning things like anthropology and grand strategy might be perfectly suited for the classroom but most things you need to learn are necessarily tactile.  You need to actually go through the motions to develop muscle memory ( any physical sensation implanting into your brain at a subconscious level the lessons-so for instance the cook needs to smell and see results, the squad rehearsing tactics needs to work under exertion and adrenaline, etc. ).  Long ago, management theory applied to the military became one of mass classroom teaching.  It did NOT produce superior results, but it did produce Close Enough For Government Workers who, quickly trained, quickly flooded the battlefields and, with insane amounts of supplies, predominated.  We took a facsimile of the Germans training and mated it with the Russians mass produced war machine ( slightly improved which usually meant a degree of sophistication added which made a slight dent in the casualty rate ) and called it a day.  Not too long after, the civilian workplace started applying this slowly but surely until you can’t even cut hair without a years training. 

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How the military and the corporate world trains people is NOT the right way to do things, but the cheap and One Size Fits All way.  You train by doing, and never stopping the doing.  That is why barbarians train warriors for a lifetime and nations train soldiers in a matter of weeks.  Tribes need proficiency and quality, not quantity to amount to nearly the same thing ( one way keeps you alive much better than the other.  Sorry, but people trying to train you Just Like The Government are training you to die for the government, not how to survive ).  Book training is JUST a start and JUST an outline, NOT training in most endeavors.  It is great training to be able to train someone else in book training, that is about it.  By all means, have your vast library of digital books.  It is Better Than Nothing.  You can’t survive and thrive without knowledge.  But those books ( and when I say digital, of course paper is so much better-but if it is digital or nothing, go electronic.  DVD blanks are twenty-five cents in bulk for back-ups and there will be enough computer junk and batteries around long enough to transfer the important stuff to paper ) are almost all current training manuals and suspect, as such.  You only need books to kick-start apprenticeship programs and those preserving knowledge that can be applied to any training.

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Hence, most military manuals are crap.  I’d feel safer with a batch of biographies recounting 4^th generation warfare, insurgency, guerilla tactics and the like than every military manual ever produced ( they have their place, just don’t idolize them ).  They are flawed training manuals rather than compilations of knowledge.  See the difference?  Your library needs to be knowledge based, and non-petroleum age based.  And you need to study that library.  Along with whatever You-Tube videos you feel are valuable ( at least with video’s you have visual feedback, a step up from mere reading for hands-on skills ).  Saving vids are a whole skill set of added software and hardware, and they obviously have a time limit, but don’t discount them-they can be very practical.  I’ve read more than a few Stone Age wilds survival books and they taught me less than a couple of those crazy Aussie teaching videos ( the waddle and daub shelter, the fire crafted clay roof, the near-instant firestarter that added a stone weight to the twirling stick ).

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I hope I’ve placed current training books in context.  Needed, but used with caution.  Entertainment is a lot easier, as is exercise.  That will, thank all the gods, finally, wrap up this series.  Tomorrow.

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