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Most desert dwellers are nomadic and herder.  All farmers are stationary ( yes, there is a bit of slash and burn growing but you don’t find that very often ).  You reading this right now think like a farmer.  That was the way of life this countries white settlers brought with them and it has been such ever since.  And while most of the time, as women want to keep men neutered until it is late career motherhood sperm donation time ( which tells you how retarded and insane FemiNazi’s are-only a psycho masochist wants to put their body through pregnancy at a late age.  Anything much different than fifteen to max thirty-five is spitting in the face of Mother Nature and asking for problems ) and transgender-ism is an answer in search of a problem, it is glaringly obvious that adhering to tradition is the only sane way of life, this time I need you to stop and think if this particular custom and habit is in your best interest.  Again, most folks want to be farmers.  More power to you and stay to the right of the 100 degree Meriden.   I love you all but don’t need anymore neighbors ( not that One-sies or Two-sies are a bad thing, just that a Mass Movement is ).  But if you want to move to the desert, you want to be a nomad, regardless of what others are trying to tell you ( yourself included ).

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So, what is a brother to do for food?  What are you doing right this minute?  You are eating food grown with, more likely than not, imported oil.  Put aside for a second the fact that the PetroDollar is a colonial construct resulting from winning the Second World War and crowning ourselves King Turd.  Those digital entries do in fact allow us to get a good portion of our imported oil for promissory notes, but as we speak that system is under assault and is guaranteed to end promptly and soon.  Those not counting on that-such as assuming any bank or government promise is any good because It Has Always Been That Way ( except when it wasn’t such as gold confiscation or pension implosions )-are going to be disappointed AND double dog dry humped.  In effect, we are trading goods and services for petroleum.  Which we need to grow and process and transport our food ( it takes 10 calories of petroleum to grow one calorie of food-and that is just the growing part, and more importantly we import 60-70% of our oil, even WITH fracking thrown in to the equation ).  Bottom line, we don’t eat in this country without trading indirectly for it.

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Wow!  Imagine the concept.  Trade for food rather than grow it.  Now, obviously it isn’t as simple as that.  It never is.  Because energy will go from gross surplus to widespread unavailability during a real collapse ( the one we are in now is kindergarten pushing matches and glittery unicorn flatulence compared to what is coming ), trade will be largely impossible.  Without surplus energy and a monopoly on force, peaceful trade is impossible.  But in your area of control, and the surrounding ones,  you will have a level of force to activate trade with your neighbors.  Your neighbors may not like it, may not even have enough of a surplus, but they will trade as they choose the lesser of evils.  Because you aren’t some pussy Hippie goat herding puke.  You are raiders and warriors.  You can certainly raise livestock-and it is mostly necessary so as to utilize your environment intelligently, but you must have the ability to both protect your territory and to project force outside of it.

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If you are feared, you aren’t always attacked.  If you live in a really crappy area, you most likely won’t be attacked ( soon returning to muscle weapons, horse soldiers will once again become the norm.  And inevitably agricultural cavalry choose specialized horse breeds which need specialized feed.  A nomad group using the desert as a huge moat will use wild Mustang types far better suited for desert foraging.  Invading forces can’t adequately feed their mounts if the terrain is deep enough-use that to your advantage, along with the Russian “defense in depth”, strategic retreat drawing invaders into a death trap ).  If you are both feared AND live in desolate areas, you can overcome the advantages of farmers ( NEVER fight them on their terms but yours-or you will not prevail.  There is a reason empires are agriculture ). 

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You must embrace the nomadic herder lifestyle as it is advantageous militarily.  You are only marginally dependent on trade, not completely.  And it isn’t like there won’t be a market for your meat and hides-grain growers are quite happy to trade surplus wheat for scarce meat.  You stay mobile so as to both preclude attack ( beware only having a single water oasis as it makes you vulnerable ) and to allow each ecological system to regenerate.  By sharing the same culture and family members with fellow tribesmen you insure yourself of fallback positions, emergency aid and a larger buffer zone.   Sedentary tribes usually lack this shared beneficial relationship as each lot of land is jealously guarded.  Obviously, grazing rights share this sense of entitlement and  potential violence, but each social dynamic is different.  Serfs and landlords are not the same as one set of warriors and another.  It is easier for independent fighters with blood ties to cooperate than to try to dominate, just as it is more natural for nobility to dominate and control rather than to share.  Each mechanism maximizes gain for its practitioners. 

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A culture of herders is a culture of warriors, trained from birth.  Deprivation and hardship is part and parcel to the process.  Not that farmers have it easy, just relatively speaking easier-others do their fighting for them.  All herders become trained as light cavalry, completely at home and trained in the wild.  The Kings soldiers rely on superior tools with their specialized makers, and are NOT warriors.  Each way has their pros and cons, which is why you always want to get the other side to forfeit their natural advantage.  Such as, for the raiders, the offensive over the defensive ( you can raid that which is momentarily unguarded, and as long as you escape the retaliatory response you hold almost the entire advantage ).  And herding and raiding are nice insofar as their flexibility.   You can peacefully trade one season, go on a raid for wives the next, sell your “protection racket” for better trading terms, turn around and raid just for the hell of it ( to instill respect and to train the next class-your boys are cavalry naturally but must be weaned to battle ), sell your patrolling of your territory as a border defense to your neighbor, or any combination therein.  It sure seems like a better life, to me, than as a serf tilling the soil.

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