OPR'S 2 of 3

OPR’S 2

We last left off with a disdain for both incurable optimists and incorrigible pessimists and wondered if perhaps we could somewhat meet in the middle and have the best of both worlds.  I of course love being a pessimist as my old age and ever growing cynicism, which was always latent but bloomed marvelously after I attended the University Of Real Life, takes on new dizzying heights.  I did so well in my younger years huddling away from reality, happy as a pig in a trough of swill ignoring all of little import and immersed in my world off the printed page.  And I would have done fine there had I not poked my Little Head out in search for female companionship.   Then I was forced to deal with such nonsense as Procreating, Career, Socializing and other horrors.  Most guys that have had some but more likely most of their soul corroded away with these acidic concepts will of course spout about how we all need to grow up and face life and take on challenges and other uplifting slogan material that is used to make themselves feel better but I can’t help but take with a grain of salt.  I came, I spawned, I’m in the first stages of death.  Humping joy.  I think I missed something in the sales pamphlet.  Any of you who are still around that had read me in the early ‘90’s might remember me being a little less defeatist back then.

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But is any of that worse than being a Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy spouting bumper sticker?  The humpers that want everybody to be happy in life, despite what life throws at them, need a proctologist to perform an emergency cranial rectal inversion procedure.  No, we are both equally bad at how we view life, the universe and everything.  As in all things, moderation is key.  Stop being so friggin upbeat, and certainly quit being so much of a downer because both views irritate those around you.  I used to purposely pump myself up to ooze happiness on Mondays, taking delight in the grumpy greeting to my exuberance.  I don’t have the energy for that anymore, nor the inclination to do anything but vote that the idiots I work for broke my spirit, but luckily for me everyone else has just as much of an issue of being as cheerful as used to be possible.

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But this isn’t really about talking yourself into enjoying being screwed.  It isn’t about life in general.  It is about allowing an un-moderated attitude to bite you in the ass during preparedness.  I’m constantly going on about how Yuppie Scum Survivalists and other evolutionary rejects ( it makes sense that they are religious rather than Darwinists as their wishful thinking fantasies need a deity to save them from their own stupidity-so the insult “evolutionary rejects” probably doesn’t register in their pea brains.  To those of my minions who are religious, congratulations.  You at least understand that God helps those that help themselves by thinking for themselves ) are so optimistic ( Peak Oil doesn’t start until 2030!  We’ll recover from every Depression!  Freedom and independence is one vote away! ) but in this article I’ll address the equal problem of survivalists being too pessimistic.  Yes, surprisingly, there is such as thing as too paranoid.  Who knew?  I’ve been so busy telling you to get more paranoid I’ve spent most of my time ignoring day to day reality in favor of a far worse future one.

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I can 100% guarantee that the entire globe will see a die-off in the ninety-nine point something range.  99.9% is not out of the question ( there will still be enough numbers and diversity, far better than the last bottleneck we went through, so don‘t get your Snoopy underwear in a bunch over the decimal points ).  I won’t rehash the reasons at this point.  It is as simple as Malthus made it out to be and any fudging or wishful thinking you wish to apply doesn’t change the fact that seeing an equation to the end is as simple as doing the right math.  Now, the problem with that guarantee is timing.  Obviously.  I’ve just assumed the worse and lived my life the last 15 years accordingly.  Okay, not the Very Worst.  I’m not living as a hermit far away from everyone with a lifetimes worth of wheat and reading material.  I want to, but that is just too much ( remember, I already got used to being married and at this point I’m gambling on dying of overwork and lack of medical care rather than the collapse-so I’ve remained part of society ).  But I’ve invested in the worse case scenario.

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And I sometimes wonder, how much was I subconsciously effected by 9/11?  Prior to that, I was just a Y2K prepper.  Prior to THAT, I was just a Mormon Prepper ( one years supplies, return to default normal ).  So, I did change my thinking prior to Y2K ( thank you, Dr. North ) to go from, basically, camping gear, gun and food equipped refugee, to seeing that the bigger infrastructure surrounding me and until then invisible was a lot more important than thought.  It had a much bigger impact and was actually in very real danger of not coming back.  But I was still too gear dependent.  It took a financial tsunami and a False Flag attack by the neocons to get me to advance up to the next level of civilization collapse ( Y2K would have been an imperial collapse only ).  Working towards life AFTER gear.  I eventually came to focus on this to a much larger degree.  And it wasn’t a wasted effort.  Hell, I’m much better off than most “Backwoods Home” homesteaders. 

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I can weather the financial collapse much easier.  But the nagging question remains, I went from normal life to life after the collapse and have made little progress towards life DURING the collapse, and what if I’m wrong about the velocity of the collapse?  What’s a Brother to do in a society still ruled by the elite, but with few jobs and almost no welfare?  I can’t even count on my writing income to make the transition with me ( once the means of prepping is gone, how relevant are my scribblings? ).  More tomorrow.

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