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SLOW COLLAPSE INSURANCE

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Well, I’m sure you are all pretty squared away for the collapse of civilization, or if you aren’t you possess a reasonable facsimile.  Sure, you might need five years of wheat at a minimum, but six months is far better than nothing especially since most of us prepping overstock our day to day cupboards anyway and between the two you might just have a years supply of food.  The extra fat almost all of us carry, an actual historical survival mechanism rather than something you need worry about ( unless you can’t see your dingus, in which case the fat went from beneficial mobile food reserve to health impediment.  For you gals, if your belly holds up your rack better than your bra does, you might be a bit overweight also ) will get us through the first month or two with extra calories so that prior to sitting on a rocker all day moaning about the second half of that Netflix series you’ll now never see you can accomplish those needed tasks such as bugging out or setting up camp security or cutting firewood or whatever.  Then you can go back to being as lazy as you were before, just with less calories doing it.

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The trick when you don’t have enough food is, hello Captain Obvious, getting more.  If your storage food amount is inadequate then you need to plan ahead better as to how you are going to get it.  My plan is to assume five years of food is equal to one or two at the most, two to three years in reserve because you need food storage even AFTER the apocalypse and up to one and a half serving as a double ration, with six months sedentary die-off rations.  So five years planned rations is six months die-off and six months double rations and the rest in reserve.  This is going to be flexible because it depends when the collapse happens and when the next crop is going to come in.  I could, for instance, await the die-off and arrive in time for productive potato fields, or not.  I might have to wait for the wheat crop and go fight for that instead.  That is what the double rations are for, the energy to actually transport to the fight.  Sorry if this is an uncomfortable subject, but killing for food is how things are initially, despite the sanitized versions you have dancing in your heads.  You are stealing food or killing those who might steal your food later, and that is it simply boiled down to basics.

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If you only have six months wheat ration plus the cupboard items you need to follow the standard protocol of hiding out the six months which is the assumed maximum die-off event duration, which will take the minimum amount of calories.  But then you need to double up to go on the offensive, so you only have two or three months to go fight and secure your food.  With no reserve.  I would strongly suggest you consider the wheat at one year as a bare minimum, as well as stocking your retreat location with an abundance of regular non-perishables.  Six months is VERY uncomfortable of a cushion.  That seasonal food question can bugger up anyone’s plans.  But assuming you can make that two month window work on your less than recommended amount of storage foods, it is a far better plan than what everyone else has.  Which is basically fighting for the food on hand, immediately.  Since that is the default plan of the entire population you’ve wisely found a bug out location ( PRE-stocked, damnit!  I’m not a fan of most buggin in, or bugging out past a certain distance but however you do it make sure it is ready at a moments notice.  The collapse SHOULDN’T be overnight as that defies all hope and logic, but since it COULD be… ) to go to ground at to wait out that stupidity.

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Which brings up ammunition, which you probably don’t have enough of.  Despite the seemingly universality of the prepper stereotyped ammo case stacker, most of us realistically are probably as deficient in ammunition as we are in wheat.  Well, after the six month period it is probably a very safe bet that a lot of that irreplaceable ammunition that the semi-simians thought would be soon replaced by the victorious Christian Militia  re-opening the three hundred year fracking wells is in fact all used up and NOT magically replenished and the only survivors of the die-off period fighting actually learned to husband their ammunition through altering tactics.  Even those with semi’s will be sipping rather than slurping the last of the ammo, so your embarrassingly small stockpile will be on par with most others.  As long as you assume from day one that you are a guerrilla without resupply, you should do okay.  Not great, but okay.  Now do you see the attraction of a bayonet?  Great for administering a coup de grace, saving on ammo.  A battlefield back-up, saving on the ammo and weight of that hypothetical pistol.  And etcetera.

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So, even those not exactly ready or equipped for the complete collapse are somewhat prepared as long as their plans reflect their logistics.  So when I say we’ve pretty much got the collapse covered I’m sure that includes everyone ( go back and see my article on even the homeless being able to prep ).  Now, what if that waterfall collapse DOESN’T happen?  I’m completely convinced it will, or I wouldn’t have lived my life like I did and am.  But I’ve never said the collapse is  guaranteed to happen by my reckoning.  I said you should assume and prep as if it would, as insurance against Worst Case Scenario.  If I’m wrong, no harm and no foul because you didn’t burn any bridges.  So you bought too many preps, who cares?  It was a hobby, and hobbies are a consumption rather than an investment.  But, it must be acknowledged, not burning your bridges only solved one problem.  And there are more than one of those.  So, you will still retire, or get Food Stamps to feed yourself on your junk land.  Fine, immediate future planned for.  But that assumes you have the economic collapse covered.  Which is GREAT.  Don’t misunderstand me.  You should have a bare bones kit for the collapse and then cover yourself for the economic collapse which comes before the civilization collapse.  Hell, we have been in an economic collapse most of our lives.  The difference is in severity and has been for a decade. 

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But if you think on it, most of our economic collapse insurance is premised on a functioning government.  I submit to you the possibility of a time period prior to civilization collapse and prior to governmental collapse which sees a cessation of ALL effective state welfare benefits.  Yes, I know we all assume the moment Food Stamps and Section Eight housing fail the streets will erupt in riots and the whole edifice crumbles.  I’m talking more about purchasing power, a hyperinflation scenario, as well as infrastructure issues.  The government certainly can print all the money it needs in that narrow window between the start of the rhetorical printing press and the end of its powers through civil unrest.  It could in theory give Tyrone the ghetto dweller twice the money as you get since you are white and own land ( currently the junk land doesn’t count against your benefits-although that could change.  Try to get that bitch under someone else’s ownership ), but I don’t know how much credence I give that whole “lib-tards are out to kill us through reverse racism” scare.  More realistically everyone gets increased COLA-cost of living allowance-since it is just a few taps of the federal reserve bank keyboard.

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Alas, our food growing and distribution system is privately run and while most of our lives we’ve heard nothing but capitalistic jingoism spouting nonsense to the effect that private enterprise is god like and any government interference is communism, the truth is a slight bit different.  Yes, private business is VASTLY more efficient.  But it isn’t efficient for the customers sake, but for the sake of the company.  Normally there would be nothing wrong with that, were capitalism in its growth phase.  But it isn’t, it is in its Right Side Of The Bell Curve phase.  Capitalism, it might do you good to remember, is the most efficient system to consume surplus resources.  Baring said surplus, it loses all its strengths and is then nothing more than dysfunctional.  Which is what we are seeing now.  You don’t destroy your customer base, your brand name, your national security and your ability to pay back growth loans in a functioning capitalistic economy.  Welcome to the Oil Age in decline.  Capitalism is just another victim, along with the nation state, welfare, industrialism and every damn thing you are used to, even if what you counted on was working poorly.  But soon it won’t work at all.  Which is what we must think about preparing for.  Continued tomorrow.

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