safe place part 4

SAFE PLACE 4

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Is not immigrating at all a good idea?  At first blush the obvious answer is straight from Horror Movies 101.  If you are a young nubile white teenager wanting to have sex, don’t do it in the woods!  If you are the token African-American, don’t hang out with honkys- you’ll be the first one killed.  And last but not least ( thank you, Eddie Murphy! ), if the mofo’en house tells you to Get Out!, get the hell out.  If you are in an urban area, the default answer is always to Get! Out! And not a year from now or whenever you feel like it, but right damn now.  Yes, we know that the boys have been crying wolf for decades now.  OPEC and the ‘70’s, the Soviet Union with itchy trigger fingers in the ‘80’s, Clinton’s dictatorship in the ‘90’s, Y2k in the ‘00’s and the derivatives implosion and the obvious rearview mirror look at Peak Oil in the Teens.  The difference is that if you stay in the city eventually you will be wrong but if you move OUT of the city eventually you will be right.  When it is your life on the line, being right is important.

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Alas, moving out of the city now is not as easy as it used to be, regardless of how bad the economy was then.  There is only one way to do it and that is to buy for cash and be able to live on less.  Unless you are in one of the few bulletproof occupations, it is almost suicidal anymore to give up your job.  Of course, that is where my greatness comes in, with prepping cheap and living cheap, but I feel my hair is inadequately praised most times.  But regardless of my paranoia, as justified as it is, we do have to keep in mind that the regularly perceived notions of danger are pretty much bullcrap.  The whole Yuppie Scum Bug-Out Plan is retarded, moronic, irrational and spastic.  Your typical Yuppie Scum thinks that because we are America, our economy is super deluxe.  Because American used to be the number one exporter of oil, we must still have a few gazillion barrels left to keep us all in jobs and Happy Motoring.  Really, because we are so great and in the beginning of The Glen Beck Two Hundred Year Long Fracking High Technology Miracle- Oil Forever Bro!,  there is so little reason to even be prepping in the first place except if those sneaky A-Rab’s nuke one of our cities.  Civilizations ONLY collapse if they aren’t ‘Murikans! 

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So, if American is so super duper great, and the oil can never run out, and the dollar will always be the global currency because after all we already saw The End Of History, only Leftist Presidents in league with Blue Helmeted Storm Troopers could possible ever undermine our deluxe super- duperness.   So, really, why not just stockpile MRE’s and FLIR scope atop your trusty plastic carbines with ninety round drum mags, after of course you attended a Ninja Approved tactical class teaching you how to spray and pray, quickly swap magazines so you can spray and pray more, and then clearing jams after you’ll sprayed and prayed pretty much all afternoon?  You only have to survive short term disasters, not long term resource depletion.  Resource depletion?  What the hell is that?  Sounds unpatriotic!  Go ahead, live in the big city and earn that big paycheck and procreate with that big bosomed trophy wife because God himself approves of an All-American Capitalist high paying occupation and would never jeopardize that for you by allowing anything bad to happen. 

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Bugging out is mostly a fantasy.  It is a Big Truck For Big Boys fantasy model that is applicable in several scenarios that have a very low probability of occurring.  Surprise nuclear attack, an asteroid hitting in just the right spot or a solar flare of ginormous size.  I’m not saying they won’t happen, because one never knows.  I’m just saying the odds are far greater our empire crashes from oil cut off inducing starvation, our economy crashes overnight and zero imports are allowed in after the petro-dollar crashes or something as simple as everyone losing their job.  The odds are very good that you will have enough warning to semi-peacefully retire to your safe spot from your suburban nest.  Not guaranteed, because the only thing in this life that is guaranteed is death and taxes ( Libertarians and High Tech Pimps both try to refute this reality but they are no where closer to refuting this law except by closing their eyes and tapping their heels together three times and wishing away the big bad world ).  But probably pretty good odds of happening.  Of course, that isn’t a get out of jail free card.  You still need to be ready.

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You do have to have a place to go, and the means to get there, and the finances to live there if you miscalculated timing.  So, no, you don’t want to hunker down past a certain point.  The suburbs are built around the automobile, which in a long term aspect is even worse than living in a city.  At least a city, if built pre-oil, can devolve back down to a viable entity after a time, going back to its ancestral roots of what made it a good location to begin with ( a port, or a trades crossroads or a mining town that had the ore extraction interrupted because it is only viable with human labor [ in other words, hasn’t been stripped by machines leaving nothing for the future ] or a river crossing or whatever ).  The suburbs, and many cities in the Great American Desert, can only survive through oil, and oil alone, and are soon to be abandoned relics of a never to be repeated era.  Complete civilization collapse means lack of transportation and you need to secure a means to a better location than the suburbs prior to that irrevocable event. 

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Why WOULD you hunker down unless it is already the optimal location?  Overpopulation, resource scarcity, oil dependence, depleted soil and pollution, let alone exposure to nuclear fallout.  The only good thing about your location is money.  Use that wisely, but don’t buy into your location being optimal.  But where you are going better be better, eh?

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