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CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR 3

I’m not sure about you’all, but despite hedging my bets in the past I don’t think I can say for sure that I really DON’T want to see the collapse come about.  I have my lazy moments when I don’t want to work too hard at life, when propane and electricity are pretty nice luxuries, but being a pussy shouldn’t be a reason.  The standard excuse for the GroupThink dictum that “you shouldn’t wish for the collapse” is that regardless of how bad the greedy rich are or how much of a completely moronic douche your boss is or how frigid and shrill your wife is, well, a dog eat dog of a collapse will be far worse ( and, again, I’ve used words to that effect myself ).  On the surface that is true.  But most if not all of what you hear about prepping is very superficial in its reasoning.  I think this is because writing is hard work, and writing takes time away from gaming Google and Amazon to inflate your ad income and because logical thinking itself is, well, way past most of our pay grades.

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So, is it realistic to think a collapse is a good thing?  First off you have to acknowledge that denying that in the first place is part and parcel with Pussy Preppers because they are WAYYY too big of pussy’s to ever actually go through a collapse.  They cling to their suburban homes unrealistically ( bugging-in ) and most of their prepping hinges on never having to experience one second of discomfort, in this reality or post-apocalypse.  It is all about keeping their cars running and their propane heaters throwing Old People Levels Of Warmth ( in Old People Town, 85 is cold and 95 is just starting to get warm ) and their generators keeping the Fry Daddy and curling iron running.  Rough it now?  Rough it then?  Preposterous!  Unacceptable!  Money, more money!  Throw money at the problem, not skill or testosterone ( Prepper Pussy’s are notoriously girly and take pride in NOT roughing it-for a mental image of what one looks like, picture John Wayne with a dingus broke off in his ass ).  It is one thing to prefer luxury, but quite another to plan your life around never being without it.

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So what are we talking about that is going to be such a terrible thing?  The passing of luxurious lifestyles.  To Pussy Preppers that is indeed a life worse than a thousand tortures.  But what is a collapse?  After the die-off phase, which will of course be most unpleasant what with the death and starvation and all-try to avoid ringside seats if you can, we are pretty much looking at life as it always was.  Which I guess is enough to scare most people, but those rich enough to prep only know life at the top of the food chain during the Oil Age.  The die-off won’t be any worse than Berlin 1945 or Cambodia in the 1970’s or etcetera.  All during the present Industrial Age.  So, really, the only thing that is going to change is that Americans won’t be Top Dog anymore and that is such a bizarre and frightening thought and it cannot be thought of.  Ever.  Which accounts for all the twists and turns of illogic in the PrepperSphere explaining away any possibility of not retaining our position economically or resource allotment wise.

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Why should returning to normal be such a bad thing?  Because our life expectancy drops?  Perhaps when that happens the smart ones won’t piss away a lifetime.  If you only have forty years instead of eighty, you’ll use them far more wisely.  Leave the nest at 13 and have training by 16 and grandkids by 32.  No more wallowing in the nothingness of five years of being a teenager and another four drinking beer pretending to study in college.  No more putting off children until it takes modern medicine to get your old ass pregnant.  No more midlife crisis as an excuse to start a new family with a younger broad.  No more Super Moms and Mister Moms and shuffling papers endlessly waiting for the one colored pink.  Sure, you’ll have more to worry about in that shortened life such as Bubonic Plague and barbarian invasions and losing half your teeth early ( does anyone know what to replace toothpaste with?  Besides baking soda.  Salt? ), but it will be a simple and honest life and most importantly, actually have meaning.  You can drink yourself to death because of real honest stress, not because you are tired of living in the artificial world you’ve chained yourself to with a pair of Fools Gold handcuffs.

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Longevity isn’t necessarily a great thing.  Jimmy Hendrix and James Morrison and Janis Joplin might have claimed to live a full life in just 27 years ( or, they were just weak minded partiers who threw away a god given talent-but either way you have to admit they did more in ten years than most of us do in seventy ), which seems like a much better deal than fifty years behind a desk and a drivers wheel and a TV set and then another twenty behind a table full of prescription drugs keeping the symptoms of imminent death muted.  You lived like a drone your whole life so you could play a few games of golf?  People ALWAYS reform into social units after a calamity ( even during one ).  Life’s disruptions are short, assuming you survive them.  A collapse doesn’t have to be such a huge deal for the survivors.  It can even be an improvement in a lot of ways.  Suddenly, you don’t have to work as long for the boss.  Work is pretty straight forward-you work to eat, and that is pretty much it.  All the superficial crap is gone.  No one has the extra energy or riches to engage in Drama Queen crap ( which is what about 99% of everyone today does pretty much their whole day ).  And we can return to our true selves.  I don’t think wanting a collapse is such a bad thing.

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