dept. of defense

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

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Have you subscribed to the Green Mountain Dude yet?  The last time I mentioned him I noticed the subscriber number moving from around nine to 30, but it hasn’t gone up since.  And I know I’m not the only one that feeds him customers.  He really is a pleasurable read I look forward to.  That said, while far better than 99% of the survival writers out there, he ain’t me.  On the article posting the fifth installment from Survival Acres bugging out series, he got to talking about the farmers needing to kill off the rabid starving idiots who took off into the hills thinking they could live off the land, and he is of course right is noticing bugging out to eat berries and bugs is a strategy that will get you killed.  Hunting and gathering only works under three conditions.  There aren’t other people around ( low population ).  You were raised doing this.  And you do it with a tribe.  Bug out’ers, wilderness types, violate every rule.  And C5 ( that’s the Green Mountain Survival dude ) has nothing but distain for them.  Yet, he also veers off on a tirade on anyone that is offensive rather than defensive, which seems shortsighted to me.

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We just talked about self delusion and evil as a myth.  Ignoring this reality ignores human nature and history.  Man has ALWAYS been offensive in his tactics.  Defense alone is a morality balm that will get you killed.  Do you know what I think when I hear North American Doomers glorify themselves as defensive farmers?  Civilized Whites heroically defended themselves against the Savage Red Man.  That is the myth they are living out.  Rawles pretending his followers are only going to conduct defensive combat patrols around their retreats, and C5 waiting to defend his farm against evil starving survivalists with more ammo than food, and American Liberators Fighting For Democracy viciously attacked by violent Viet Cong in their compounds that they leave to inoculate sick peasant children, all these are variations on the theme of Better People Because They Only Fight Back After Attacked.  Americans, the White settlers rather than the Natives, were always fighting back against sneaky vicious savages who slaughtered their women and children.  Americans liberated Europe from the evil Nazi’s, while attacking Japan from a base of the Philippines, a nation they took over colonizing from Spain. 

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C5 is aghast that a survival strategy is attacking farmers, just like those sneaky Muslim Philippine guerrillas, or native Americans would do.  Actually, just what every friggin group of soldiers has done throughout history prior to the modern era of surplus carbon energy.  How do you think all those European armies fed themselves on campaign?  Attacking farmers.  Not killing them, as C5 snidely comments, that would be eliminating your labor force for next years harvest, although you were getting his food whether he lives or dies.  If his soil is fertile and there are outbuildings and fences and such, some other peasant will put his son to working that plot, so the killing wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, just not a necessary thing.  The simple fact is that farming, under SOME circumstances, is a lot worse of a survival strategy than raiding farms is.  In fact, raiders are a helpful post-apocalypse fauna, reducing criminal competing gangs, clearing surrounding areas into a DMZ, in effect a government collecting taxes. 

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I’m not focusing on C5 exclusively here, this Defensiveness Is Godliness meme is sickeningly prevalent in most survivalist circles.  It is naïve.  If a farmer organizes with others, as they will need to do sooner or later ( the single farm in Comanche Country is usually doomed ), eventually he will become a serf with a former warlord as the new government, anyway.  And his government will certainly not remain defensive only.  Your independent farmer joining in defense will only work as long as the ammunition holds out, if that long.  After that, armies will return to professional standing bodies fed by slaves on farms, as centralizing up to the maximization of resources and surplus energy allow.  Weapons and equipment, soldiers and training will be provided by the surplus of farmers, not by the farmers themselves, in any area guerrillas cannot hold militarily.  And when was the last time guerrillas were successful ONLY utilizing defensive tactics?  From the very first permanent settlements of man, one of the best tactics was sneaking through the woods and attacking the other village while they slept, then running away prior to taking casualties yourself.  That isn’t defensive, and it is highly dubious no one engaged in this because it was immoral.

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Why did the Indians attack Whites?  A lot of times it was because OTHER whites paid them to do so, other civilized farmers, and a lot of times it was their only tactically superior choice.  Take out the settlements women and children, and the White invader might leave, or at least leave you alone a little longer.  Whites, although they used the Indian attack as justification to attack themselves ( this is how the Virtuous Warriors sustain their superiority ), were also known to go on the offensive even without current justification.  As in, ALL Indians are savages and evil so since my father was killed by Indians twenty years ago by another tribe, I am right and just killing THIS tribe by attacking them.  Logically, the new Indians are innocent and you are in the wrong attacking them, just as, logically, you are morally correct in attacking those who attack you.  But LOGIC has nothing to do with all of this, it is merely emotion, superstition, self-justification and transferring fault. 

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No group or individual will last long staying defensive.  Guerrillas, fighting that way from necessity, MUST act offensively.  Oh, sure, they will have justified why they attack, because they too must always have the moral high ground, but my point is that EVERYONE justifies bad behavior.  Everyone.  No exceptions to the rule.  C5 and Rawles will soon enough be on the offensive, against the original attackers, then they will remain that way and justify to themselves why they alone are in the right going on the offensive against OTHERS.  Note here that I am NOT suggesting that it is a good idea to stock no food and all ammo and go steal food.  That is also militarily a poor choice.  Too easy to get yourself killed.  No, you store plenty of food and then go steal more, in a group, prior to running out yourself.  How do you think ANY government was ever formed?  They stole what they needed or wanted.  Simple as that.  When one guy does it he is a bandit ( and not a smart one ).  When a “gang” does it they are evil.  But if one group attacks and defeats another group, then controls that area, they are a new government.  Same actions, different perspectives.

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Defense Only is ONLY a propaganda tool, to convince yourself and others that you are the aggrieved defender.  Forced to return force and cruelty.  In practice, defense only as a tactical tool will get you killed.  Self delusion is okay if it strengthens you, but here is NOT the time and place to delude ourselves.  Human Survival Tool #1 has always been to kill the other tribe.  Not to defend against him.  Just like insects we populate past the point of our resource base.  Before we get to the point that weakens us, we kill the other tribe to increase our resources PAST the current population of our ONE tribe.  Two tribes no longer exist.  Two tribes rapidly approaching resource exhaustion.  Then you have one remaining tribe with a large surplus, to absorb the upcoming births, births you need to stay superior to other tribes who might want to steal from you.  These foolish folk, Hippies at heart, like Doomstead Diner Dude ( not to speak ill of the dead-I think he’s gone, not having posted for near a week as of this articles writing ), actually think that humans can change their nature to be better, gentler Can’t We All Just Get Along species really have their head so far up their ass they have zero chance of surviving the collapse.  Is your sister a FemiNazi who thinks Nurture is all and nature is none?  Do you enjoy attempting to repeal the laws of physics?  Human nature is hardwiring, not a pick and choose multiple choice test.  These people who think we can change our programming point out that life long lactate consumption is relatively recent, so our bodies can obviously be re-programmed.  So his buddies the Penis Haters think females can live as soldiers and police and firefighters and EVOLVE upper body strength and hormonal aggression and male bonding and cooperation?  What a bunch of morons.

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Aggressiveness, not defensiveness, is what keeps us the apex predator.  You want to be all girly and stay passive until

given permission to assert yourself violently, good luck you and yours surviving very long.  Passive farmers do NOT triumph after the apocalypse. They become serfs to a warlord.  Aggressors who plan and fight intelligently get what a farmer produces.  Why this is not viewed as a survival strategy escapes my comprehension.  You almost want to ask yourself why we have history.

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