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I’ve always liked Commander Zero and his Mostly Just Equipment Porn blog.  I shouldn’t like him-he is all that I hold as far from my being as if it were a week dead skunk buried in the kimshee crock.  He is a Yuppie Scum Survivalist who champions the gear of the rich posers, a wanna-be 10%’er.  He holds no love for the Peasant Prepper-to him, it is your fault you aren’t rich.  But because he does one very important thing, I can’t hate him for his misguided and misinformed opinions.  And that is, he refuses to kiss anyone’s ass and could care less if anyone kisses his.  Even if his prism is warped and broken, he will look through it and call a spade a spade.  How can you not respect that, when 99% of all the doomer blogs out there are wimpy pussies catering to the lowest common denominator?  I won’t name any names.  I’ll just say that all the guys out there fighting each other to be crowned King Kristian Militia might hate on those not of their group, but they sure put on an ugly display of obsequiousness to the target demographic.  Even worse is the National Geographic Doomers who post articles of ZERO worth but lard it up with graphics and pictures.  Between those two, there is your 99%.  A few hobbyists are out there going strong and staying pure.  Doomstead Diner, Woodpile Report Guy, the Cassandra blog dude over in Italy, once upon a time Black Cat Dude ( I think the tsunami of utter dreck swamping Kindle readers might have had something to do with his retreat from post-apoc fiction reviews, but what do I know? ).

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SRS Rocco asks for a donation to keep his very valuable unique information open to the public, then writes without regard to the opinion of the idiot legions surrounding him.  And, really, that is about it.  A handful of real doomers, not rent-a-doomers, not mercenaries.  Whether fan-boy writing or University educated, a handful of folks keep the faith pure.   Everyone appreciates monetary support-nothing in life is free, not even your time ( there are costs that go with study, obviously, and you should always reward decent writing as there is too little of it out and about ).  But begging for funds to continue research is a whole other world from needing extra money to keep one in the style one has come to expect.  And that is pretty much where the prepper writers are.  High priests at the alter of Mammon or hobbyists trying to be heard above that market racket.

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When most practitioners of a capitalist system whine about how the government opposes them, what they usually mean although they have no idea they do is that they are not a huge multi-gazillion dollar conglomerate in bed with the Yankee colonial masters and the central bank.  They are jealous of the mercantilist system they will never be invited to join.  Then they embrace all the legal but immoral practices of said Mega Merchants and erroneously call it free market capitalism.  If anyone else refuses to commend them on these practices, they are branded leftists or commies or Obammy Lovers.  And since capitalism is these small merchants religion ( disguised as Baby Jesus’ preferred way of Business As Usual ), it can only be good and just and pure.  These are the kind of folks in charge of the Survivalist Gurus Of America Guild.  Any not of their religion, the heretics, nonbelievers and barbarians, are marginalized and ignored.  Easy to do when the Internet is so vast and crowded, every single mouth breathing Tweeterer and FaceBooker bleating for attention by posting their daily bowel activities.

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As you might be able to tell if you close your eyes and ponder really hard, I utterly detest the Uncle Humpers ( South Park reference ) that give out advice based on both your net worth forming the worth of you as an individual and sells you dangerous information to enrich himself.  Commander Zero skirts dangerously close to my disapproval and condemnation on both counts, but as I said, he doesn’t benefit monetarily and hence must be forgiven his tendencies.  But what is important to point out here is that while the messenger is spared, those listening may not be.  If you are reading our intrepid Commercial Commando, it is important to remember all we have discussed prior.  Remember, you CANNOT time the collapse.  Be ready yesterday.  Most of us must prep cheap to get to that point.  Cheap is better than nothing ( and really, we are talking about frugal rather than cheap.  I’m usually a middlin cost kind of guy-not the cheapest, which have become false economics as of late.  Not the most expensive, which can be nothing more than name brand premium pricing.  Middlin price, for the sweet spot 80/20 Rule ).

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Later on, please feel free to prep higher up on the food chain.  But until the basics are stocked deep and cheap, high cost is still a luxury.  Which of course leads us to the rule of luxury belonging to Pussy Preppers.  Grow a nut sack and toughen up.  If Joe Bob The Cowboy could ride in the weather all day and eat beans at night, why do you think that an MRE and a four wheel drive makes you anything other than a girly-man?  Because you own a semi-auto?  Good luck surviving when the real grown-ups start playing for keeps, when calories rather than taste is food and when tactics are more important than firepower.  Veering dangerously close to topic, this article needed to be extra long so I didn’t hurt myself thinking up a second subject.  We are actually headed somewhere, and that is Commander Zero’s going off the rails and recommending what even for him is unconscionably costly, luxurious and unnecessary.  I’ll cover that, then the secondary effects of its purchase being the crippling consumerism it embodies.  More tomorrow.

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