pampered peasant book 2

PAMPERED PEASANT BOOK 2

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NOTE: I keep forgetting to post this.  A minion who owns and shoots a Mosin-Nagant wrote to disagree with my horror and disgust with the rifle.  To paraphrase, he said that my fear of the lack of a gas bleed safety is unfounded as he noticed a constant slight gas discharge from the rounds being fired most of the time.  I wonder if this was due to the original design made for the brass cases which swell to seal the chamber, then having a steel case being used failing to seal.  If so, this would not stop a catastrophic case rupture from releasing too much gas into the shooters face.  Nonetheless, I felt I should pass this on to you as it might mean my fears are unjustified.  Of course, with the rifles now selling for too much at $300, and the cheapest steel cased ammo now doubled in price, I can’t imagine WHY you’d want to buy one.  But it is better to have too much information than not enough, so here you are.

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INTRODUCTION part 2

The book The Alpha Strategy was really at base a middle class instruction manual on how to mitigate the effects of the end of the Manufacturing Economy.  Even then, it is surprisingly relevant, at least to some degree.  The economics section probably won’t help you all that much.  Now that all of the economy is financial based and all the markets are grossly manipulated, as well as computerized, plus now that we are over a decade well past Peak Oil, this economy is nothing like that fifty years ago.  The stockpiling section is still a good read and you can find e-books at no charge hanging around the Internet if you are interested.  But this booklet is NOT the same as The Alpha Strategy.  There, remember, middle class economics prevailed.  Here, we are all about the Frugal Prepper.  And why, you ask in a snide tone as visions of FLIR scopes and MRE’s dance in your head?  Because, dumb ass, you don’t the money to stay middle class, if you even still are ( but lie to yourself about it ).  If you want a fantasy primer, check any other survivalist tome out there, or for better writing, The Lord Of The Rings.

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If you might go back and examine the title of this book, we are assuming your immediate future is anything other than middle class pampered Yuppie Scum.  Let’s go back 150 years.  Why not, right?  Every uppity Black agitator wants us to live in a guilt state over what happened then anyway.  After the Yankee Scum won the war and occupied the South with military troops, you can bet that the starvation and imprisonment of civilians that had occurred all through the conflict was still happening.  Ask anyone who had been in Sherman’s path what they were supposed to eat with the livestock slaughtered and the crops burned.  Reconstruction was about colonizing a rebellious province.  The South was full of poor.  Next up, remember when FDR starved out the farmers to force them into the cities and into reliance on the bankers Greenbacks?  Okay, his central banker masters who elected him instructed him to do so after they caused the Depression for profit, made gold illegal for profit, and entered into a fascist state disguised as socialism, again for profit.  Do you think there were a lot of middle class folks around at that time?

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Hell, no, the poor stayed that way until they volunteered to go fight for world domination.  Only then were they allowed to start living a middle class life.  We went from strike breaking police with Maxim machineguns to powerful Unions, and you think it was a communist plot?  It was an Elite plot, and it doesn’t matter what political façade you slap on any of their projects, in the end it is just about funneling more money to the same few people.  Follow the money.  They decided to share a bit of the wealth, but that was only because they needed a much larger workforce and bureaucracy to colonize the world.  For however much they shared, they made oh so much more.  Alas, we used way too many resources to win the war of dominance and as early as the ’50’s we were running out of surplus.  Peak Iron Ore happened then, and coal also started getting scarce in the higher grades.  We had about a quarter century of middle class living until the Peaking caught up and with just a minor supply disruption OPEC was the straw that broke the camels back, manufacture economy-wise.

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We THOUGHT we were still living middle class after that, but the clear unstoppable trend ever since has been an erosion of the standard of living we used to define that lifestyle.  We were little more than indentured servants to the banks way before the 2008 real estate backed derivatives implosion cleared the decks of all the former middle class by wiping out their last metric of housing assets.  They are no more.  You are either now poor, or poor with rich people products made in China owned by debt trying to give the illusion of un-poor.  But you are poor, just as most of us have been for most of the time we’ve been a country.  You need to start acting your class, which is poor, and embracing That Suck by refusing to play the game that only enriches the Bankers anyway.  Stop buying the illusion of middle class.  Just accept being a peasant.  You might not toil in the fields, but toil under less than safe circumstances for very mean compensation you certainly do.

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Peasants of old had to face starvation regularly.  Today, there is an embarrassment of food, but it isn’t food by most any definition.  It is empty calories.  As you feed more and more into your face, you are still starving your body of nutrients.  Malnutrition is a much slower form of starvation and you have to suffer through cancers and strange diseases before merciful death takes you.  Peasants of old had no money.  Today, we are paid an embarrassingly high amount of wages for little actual work-mostly being robot operators or supervisors.  Yet we die broke and in debt, and not just because we spend frivolously in a consumer nightmare of a culture.  Taxes in insane amounts, coupled with steady inflation, in addition to monopolies we are forced to subsidize, leave very little money to do anything much with.  If we do save industriously, there are still barriers against the poor actually investing in any real way so as to be able to bootstrap up out of poverty. 

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Giving up the illusion of being middle class is not giving up and wallowing in poverty.  It is freeing the golden handcuffs you’ve been wearing.  When you don’t have to pay for the trappings of middle class you can live a lot better with less pay.  It is quality over quantity.  And here is were the Pampered Peasant strategy comes in.  While you are downgrading into peasantry, you are using still somewhat valuable currency to stockpile the luxury items true poverty stricken individuals can never dream of.  It is a stockpiling strategy like The Alpha Strategy, but it is a far cheaper and more realistic one geared to the poor rather than the middle class.  More Introduction next article.

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