survival scum

SURVIVAL SCUM

The Druid Dude is no more, exiting the doomer-sphere as if his special tree hugging beard was on fire.  One will never know why.  Perhaps his books were down in sales, no reflection of his abilities but an economic indicator, and he got all butt hurt that he wasn’t making the scratch he had become used to.  Perhaps his mortgage was just paid off and he could now gladly ignore all those crazy chicken little folk that kept asking the hard questions his three hundred year stair step treatise couldn’t answer.  Perhaps he is even smarter than myself than I had realized and was getting out before the prepper industry completely crashed and burned, pulling a Seinfeld, unlike yours truly that doesn’t have the sense god gave a turnip and I keep chronicling a lifestyle few want or desire.  Oh, sure, once the ass really falls out of civilization they will all flock to me demanding answers and when I tell them they needed to prepare and invest prior they will all look at me funny and act surprised I can’t instruct them how to not only survive but thrive off of wild weeds, grubs and a tarp over a junked car with a hunk of rebar as a weapon to repel the hoards of cannibals.  I mean, Jesus, Jim, they are reading your blog for free, why can’t you have better answers?

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So, for whatever reason the Druid Dude said, later bitches, and is going to or already has pulled his site offline in some retarded notion folks will pay to read nine year old topical subjects, or worse, subjects already turned into books which is most of his blog ( I bought all of his books, as I can’t exactly demand payment for my writing and not do the same for other authors that don’t have ads, but I didn’t see much value in them by themselves.  I don’t go back and read them for the aforementioned reason, and some still sit gathering dust five years later, unopened ), and besides his books the only record of his existence will be my offhand comments made time to time.  Which is a pretty sad legacy for the world, a highlight to the problem that is digital media.  We were in such a hurry to trade quality for quantity that we constructed a bright shiny Alexandria Library 2.0 and marveled at its unique unicorn glittery-ness and gave no thought that the barbarians would burn the bitch down along with the grid.  Why would you be surprised that when you captured savage warriors their descendents would lack any appreciation of the written word?  Don’t take that the wrong way, as plenty of White savages will be destroying their own civilization with just as much gusto.  Ignorance can be universal.

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So here is the perfect example of information residing in only a few spots, Druid Dude’s past posts only in digital behind a pay wall or on an electronic PDF awaiting a Print-On-Demand physical book.  Will the world miss his words of wisdom, or mine?  Of course not.  But missing the chaff that is us will also eliminate the wheat that is needed knowledge, won’t it?  Digital is robotic led unemployment and cost cutting, and a shame.  I can’t go back to the reference that I made to him years ago, when he was once again flogging his dead horse that was indescribable hatred and discontent for survivalists.  From one that hates on anyone and everything, I couldn’t hate him back for his illogical passion, even if the target was myself.  He describes them as “men going through a mid-life crisis”, lumping our activities together with other irrational behavior such as buying an expensive ill performing sports car, dumping the wife for a model half her age, quitting ones job to go hiking through Bosnia or other silly pastimes that make no sense other than to enable one to grasp at ones youth at the very instance one saw the grim reaper beckon with a not so nice facial expression.

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The Druid Dude has almost always exasperated me.  He was cool enough to recommend in the highest possible terms the one book that is the bible of doom, “Overshoot”, and then draws conclusions from the book completely opposite of mine ( and I’ve read it a couple of times to make sure I didn’t miss something important ).  An unfortunate case of the both of us blind to Conformational Bias?  It would appear.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not some idiot that sees Illinois going bankrupt and immediately concludes the sky is falling ( I’m looking at you, YouTube dudes )( ah, if you read this and Illinois is actually in flames and engaged in civil war and irregular warfare, recall that I write an article two weeks prior to publication ), because if you recall, that panic button was pushed repeatedly and with great force back when California and Greece was having the same issues.  Here you are, not THAT young of a California prepper making YouTube videos, and you don’t remember contemporary history about your own state?  They were giving IOU’s for state income tax rebates.  I must have really missed the boat cashing in on less than stellar researched videos ( I now have time to watch longer videos, unlike when I was working a real job.  That and I figured out how to watch them on a real TV screen.  I wonder if it is an improvement ).

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I don’t believe that everything is a sign of doom.  Sure, Hilary would have meant nuclear war, but that bitch was so crazy and addled with dementia who would have concluded differently?  Well, except for some Lefties who think females have the same physical abilities as males and think all Muslims are peaceful ( not that some Righties are any better at critical thinking, assuming that Muslim bitches want to be free and western, failing to acknowledge that Papists can be just as bloodthirsty and than consumerism is not a healthy cultural replacement ) and believe that Blacks are as calm and non-violent as any white bread honky mo-fo from an Ashram.  Talk about some irrational bitches!  Long ago, yes, I was in a constant state of panic over everything.  A Democrat being elected was the end of the world.  A Bush being elected was the end of the world.  Gas going up to $4 was the end of the world.  But I outgrew that crap and learned what was false signals and what wasn’t ( well, I learned to GUESS what were false and what weren‘t, not exactly the same thing.  But at least I tried to modify the extremes ).  Yet it seems the Druid Dude never met an occurrence that warranted panic. 

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It isn’t that I haven’t run into any other unwarranted optimists.  That is all that is out there.  Green Mountain Dude and Survival Acres Dude are the only ones with any kind of realistic view out there and they are less funded than I am.  Nobody wants to hear bad things will happen.  I’m not sure why, because if you are a gloomy Gus, wouldn’t you enjoy hearing that your fears and phobias are justified?  I do.  Are depressed people secretly hoping someone smarter than themselves will come along and cheer them up?  What am I missing here?  I understand the Druid Dude was simply selling a dream.  Some are selling Tri-State fantasies, others homesteading dreams.  I sell frugal living genteel poverty, a way to relax without debt, too stressful of work or needing to hang around asswhores, with the bonus of a future where you can be a Viking warrior and slay the unworthy.  The Druid sold permaculture living fantasies.  We all do it.  No judgment there.  What confuses me is how folks continue to sell the dream without much thought past marketing.  Obviously the Druid Dude was living his dream, hugging asparagus and spreading the green religion.  But why did he think his dream was realistic but others weren’t?

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I was under the impression that in ancient history, druids were some badass blood thirsty dudes.  Why are the modern ones looking like Quakers?  I mean, sure, you can’t sell the Druid Dude dream if civilization collapses.  Organic gardening in villages would not exactly be viable.  But why couldn’t you sell the realistic version where good little tree worshipers are going to have to rise up and slay those that threatened the sacred shrubs?  Then you wouldn’t need to be all pacifist and delude yourself into thinking nothing TOO bad would happen.  I get what he was saying about a mid-life crisis.  Most survivalists are idiots, thinking their aged overfed carcass can run and jump and spray 223 fire wildly.  They are pretend warriors ( I like to think I escape that by advocating irregular warfare and hidey-holes ).  If you don’t see your own limitations you endanger yourself.  But seeing idiocy is someone’s position is a different animal than dismissing them entirely because it threatens your dream you are selling.  Which, of course, it doesn’t.  Nothing wrong with permaculture survivalism, IF you realistically acknowledge the surrounding threats.  But the Druid Dude didn’t like that.  He was Optimistic Ollie all the way through and so had to dismiss all nay saying that hinted at pessimism. 

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I respect the mans intellect, but will always be dumbfounded at his self-imposed limitations.  I am certainly not claiming to be smarter.  Not in the slightest.  Just, perhaps, a bit more able to see through my own preconceived notions.  A bit more able to laugh at myself when I make a mistake.  Why take the collapse so seriously?  Hell, how many people do you actually convert?  One out of a thousand?  Less?  You can’t look at the message you deliver as being more important to anyone else as it is to yourself.  Of course survivalism is populated ass deep by morons and posers and intellectual dwarves.  But so is the world Greer lived in.  Cherry picking the bad and ignoring the good is just poor research and logic.  I can play devils advocate all day long, on any position.  There are always two sides of the coin.  Anyway, it was fun having yet another hater against us while it lasted.

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