retraining, sir!

RETRAINING, SIR!

We just talked about needing to turn your family, blood and extended, into your tribe as the least worst choice.  Unfortunately for you, their quality blows.  They simply suck.  Their attitudes are poor, their physical and mental shape is for crap.  They have no focus or drive and their skills are marginal at the very best.  This has been a problem since the 1960’s, even though it keeps getting worse.  Hey, you want to give everyone disincentives to even try, don’t be surprised at the results.  Why marry?  That is just a female meal ticket.  Poor sex, begrudgingly granted at long intervals, and a half to a third of your life supporting kids you can’t see.  Why support a crotchety old bastard of a parent?  They were paid to divorce and raised you poorly, and then they are wasting all your Social Security ( that you’ll never see ) on stupid crap like golf or paying rent at 70 ( no incentive to invest in a debt-free shelter during their working years ).

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Why go to college?  Forty grand for an obsolete skill with unemployment at worse than Great Depression levels?  You’d be stupid to go to school to un-learn.  Why even buy a car?  Starting at twenty grand and quality for crap, you make monthly payments equal to what rent or a mortgage was just years ago, for seven years, then start all over again.  Why work?  Rent takes half, IF you are in management ( three quarters to all if you are minimum wage ) and they want you to spend another quarter on health “insurance” you can’t use.  Not a lot left over for food.

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Are you surprised at peoples attitude today?  Really?  Did you perhaps think they might be the smart ones?  The Hippies dropped out and refused to pay the Military Industrial Complex in taxes ( back before we just charged everything on the No Trillions Limit credit card ) or blood.  Those patriotic kids who went over to Vietnam to lose limbs or lives?  Noble, but sad and pointless.  Sometimes rebelling against convention saves your ass ( I have no problem with sacrifice, when it is for the tribe.  Not for the nation state elite who are colonizing, not defending ). 

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Which is pretty much what you see today.  A mental rebellion against everything that encompasses our system exploiting the peasants to enrich a few barons.  Hey, I’m not saying don’t work and don’t spend.  I’m saying you should be able to understand why many don’t want to.  They labor for nearly zero benefit.  And you should even be able to understand why they don’t care that the whole civilization is collapsing.  Things will just keep getting worse so they wallow in their electronic wonderland as the modern equivalent of their head up their ass.  Like a kid throwing a blanket over his head.  If he sees no monsters, they can’t see him.

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Of course, one unfortunate side effect of this, however well justified, is that part of denial is doubling down on the system that is failing.  The planet will be unlivable if we keep consuming, but it already passed its turn back point, so you might as well consume like crazy and enjoy it while you can.  Why horde the liquor for  later medicinal purposes ( pulling a tooth, pulling a bullet ) when it is better just to drink it all every night and die in a drunken stupor when your time is up, instead.  This leads to extreme waste and apathy about waste.

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These are the kind of rural neighbors you have who clog up their septic by using too much toilet paper, then stick a hose in their filled up tank to bring up to the surface and overflow to dispose of all that paper.  Never mind a few turds get loose.  Then they go to brush their teeth and put so much paste on the brush it oozes out whole, not even having room to foam up.  They over serve their meals and toss half of it, having been full of Dorito’s and dip two hours previous as they binge watched the new normal Nighttime Soap Opera that is 95% of TV today ( many are really good.  Like Breaking Bad or Sopranos.  Some are like Beverly Hills 90210, the original ). 

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All this sloth and gluttony and waste are just symptoms of the collapse.  They are understandable.  But they also train your new tribe in very bad ways.  They will show up to your place with all these engrained bad habits.  They will, literally, go through your five years of toilet paper in two months, eat your years worth of food in three weeks.  Clog up the septic, dry up your well, kill off the chickens by neglecting to put then back in the coop at night and “have fun” teaching the girls how to shoot and use up your Forever Gun rimfire the first two weeks.

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If you don’t vastly underestimate your family and in-laws, thirty years of stockpiling is gone in mere months.  They don’t know what Not Eating The Seed Corn even means.  It isn’t that they don’t care about their survival, it is that they grew up with Other People solving all their problems and making their choices for them.  If they haven’t given up on being productive even before they became adults, they learned how to do so through being cheated and beaten down enough.  On their own, they won’t give two craps, nor even try.  You cannot, and let me repeat this in case you are confused, CAN NOT!, assume they are anything other than spoiled children.  Do not leave them to their own devices.

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They will need to be retrained.  Do NOT wait for them to piss away your supplies.  They need to immediately be punished for the slightest transgressions.  I hope you are strong enough to kick all the males asses.  He doesn’t immediately hop to the chores, ass whopping.  His wife or kid doesn’t hop to their chores and show enthusiasm and drive and initiative, kick his ass again, not theirs.  This is just like boot camp.  Punish the squad for failing to force the trooper to comply.  Let the others enforce your discipline, under threat of punishment themselves. 

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Don’t give them supplies to waste.  Keep under lock and key.  Give each one a weeks worth and if they piss it away they do without until next week.  That includes food.  That shouldn’t even be an issue if you control the access to that.  But, again as with the military, you aren’t directly controlling things but indirectly.  You are retraining discipline in general, not assigning a supervisor over every person every minute.  Punish the head of each unit for failure of the unit and let them do the enforcing and disciple.  If you do it any other way you see a revolution and are living outside your own home.

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First a general lecture and written instructions.  Next a warning with punishment.  Last, a literal physical assault.  Pain is the only true way to reassign mental pathways.  If you don’t retrain these hogs to work hard and avoid wasting, your resource base is dingus before the die-off is even complete.

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