PREPPER TIERS 3
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5) Week long. Perhaps I should clarify that while most of
the media celebrity preppers are stuck back on Tier Four, “duration” is a
concept more than it is a set amount of supplies. I’m sure most Camping Preppers have more than
the actual two days of food you could literally expect from a Tier Four Weekend
Prepper. The “weekend” part of it infers
that this is a vacation from their real job, which is earning company chits
from the Federal Reserve, spending money, and in general burning through oil
and oil accessories as quickly as humanly possible before some other jerk wad
like their grandkids get their grubby little mittens on any.
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Speaking of burning
through extra energy, the other night I’m watching the old Cher and Nicolas
Cage movie “Moonstruck”. You know, back
from in the 80’s when they made much better movies ( at least in the sense that
while it was propaganda for A Bright New Era, at least it wasn’t PC Princess
nagging that they’ve all seemed to degenerate into. Now, sure, at least we get to see a new Evil
Dead TV show, cool chainsaw induced
blood fountains every show, but they slapped in Lucy “butch lesbian you’d
hump” Lawless-it’s subtle sometimes but it’s there ). I hadn’t seen that since it first came out on
video thirty years ago.
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Looking at it through a
historical lens, the middle era between Running Out Of Oil Bronx Zoo 70’s and
the next era of Black Warfare By PC Empowerment, the 80’s New York City was
unabashedly portrayed as a wonderland all the Beautiful People lived in, even
those in blue collar jobs ( Flashdance, while not in New York, but it was Our
Masters And Saviors Yankees backyard, so it is similar ). You could literally smell the money being
Hoovered in from the rest of the country by the newly emerging Financial
Sector, and they were facelifting the place and sharing with the proletariat.
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Yes, Virginia, your
forebears went all Full Bitch Mode and used all the excess energy to put a
fresh coat of paint on their town to congratulate themselves on figuring out
the original Kick The Can Down The Road.
My point here is that this was and is our only reality. Consuming energy. And the vast majority of Preppers are no
different in their hobby than they are at their Petrol Age jobs. Must.
Consume. Oil. That was a long detour around the two Tiers
because it is a conceptual leap most can’t make.
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As soon as you are at Tier Five, if you get
there, the light at the end of the tunnel is dimming. The prospects of actually returning to a
Normal Life are getting harder to decipher.
Because it is no longer about a fun camping trip where you get to shoot
looters. It means that there is a
possibility of that week extending indefinitely. Tier Six is where all the hopium and optimism
of the prepper goes to die and the Survivalist emerges.
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( And, I’d call the basic
simplified definition of a survivalist just someone prepping for the collapse
of civilization [ then we get into Survivalist Tiers-which we’ll retain the “Prepper”
label for to avoid confusion ] ), but Tier Five is one of those intermediate
steps that scares the hell out of most folks and is generally avoided if at all
possible. This is when they have to ask,
is this a vacation from my Oil Consumption job or did they tell me it was a
sabbatical and I’ll go back to find the doors padlocked?
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“Week long” isn’t just
about seven days of food and ammo, it means that the normal isn’t acting normal
anymore. The power didn’t just come back
on in a few hours like it is supposed to.
The implied government contract with the people has been voided. Because everybody knows that if the power is
off a week, there is NO frigging way that law and order can be kept. Which, logically speaking ( and that is why
this is so scary-dem bitches be asking us to use logic ) means the next step in
a lawless environment is that resupply fails.
Then stuff starts to get super scary.
Now do you see why this Tier is so poisonous to the preferred Normalcy
Bias?
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6) Seasonal. Not only does a season of disruption mean all
your luxury supplies gone ( gasoline burned, propane tanks emptied, most
ammunition used ), it also means you need to somehow resupply. This isn’t a New Mad Max, but it sure isn’t
that movie where everything instantly froze and at the end of the movie
everyone was saved by the military ( if the 80’s saw Happy Economic propaganda,
after 9/11 we see either PC or Pro-Military propaganda. And if they can combine those two together,
mighty princess warriors in uniform saving dem men folk, why, all the better!
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If the government has been
down and out ( well, killing everyone in one area and absent in the others
allowing warlords to kill everyone ) for several months, and you are out of
luxury supplies ( at one point, anything Oil Age produced, besides salvage,
will become Luxury ), that crap is REAL, yo!
It is no longer some fantasy film where you beat the crowd to Wal-Mart
and got all that cool crap ( since it is a fantasy, we’ll pretend none of their
gear broke and none of the food poisoned them ). Now you have to be a Big Boy and go steal or
kill for more supplies ( or to keep your supplies, for the squeamish minions
who haven’t realized naked force is reality ).
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Because it isn’t just
about stockpiling. Preppers
stockpile. Survivalists deep larder AND
have plans on replacing it ( preppers have shallow larders and unrealistic
plans to replace it. “Oooooh, look! A can of seeds!” ). It is the realistic resupply plans that make
you a survivalist. Or, damnit, returning
to our agreed upon vernacular, which makes you a Tier Six Prepper. Remember, this isn’t just numbers of supplies
for X amount of time. It is what you
must do DURING that time. And during
this time, you will be making adult choices.
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It isn’t now only about
self defense, is it? Self-defense is a
stupid strategy, and it is a weak one.
Only pussies would refuse to kill under any circumstances except
self-defense. It is the lazy and meek
response to being asked the hard questions.
Now you must kill proactively ( I’m not sure why there is an issue
here. You love everything about our
Imperial Military. They kill
proactively, and collateral damage isn’t very bothersome either. What’s the problem here? ). And not just enemy combatants. Potential combatants. Potential support personnel harboring
combatants. Resource wasters in your own
tribe or family. This is your Rated R
preppers, not suitable for children.
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I don't think you can compare our military killing proactively and a regular person. It can be argued that the military is sometimes (often?) sent into places where they don't belong under the orders of leaders with less than virtuous intentions for those troops. Additionally, the troops almost never have a full understanding of why they are there, they just follow orders, OR ELSE. They may have plausible deniability when they kill.
ReplyDeleteThe average person does not have that. Just because your neighbor isn't prepped so is a definite potential threat doesn't mean you can preemptively attack them. How do you know they won't off themselves or just curl up in their bed and quietly starve to death? You don't. If you proactively attack them, you are guilty of murder. If you don't get caught here on earth, you will be "caught" and judged before GOD, and nothing escapes His eyes. In other words, you have to have a short and long term perspective for taking actions like this.
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Well, wouldn't it be silly to waste ammo on the guy if he was going to die on his own? I'm speaking more of later on in the collapse, and not individually but in groups. Will Village B get too large and come after our crops in two years? Did they just lose half the crop to locusts? We might have to attack them before they attack us. That sort of thing. These are the hard choices that might seem like murder, but since your tribe has gods personal blessing and Village B does not, they are godless heathens and must die anyway. When done on a tribal level, these things seem natural. Done on an individual level they seem worse. But in reality, all posturing and excuses aside, no difference.
DeleteI've mentioned before that wife and I are more of a 5) level preeper...She is type 1 diebetic and without Insulin will have a shorter life span in a true SHTF situation. As an older guy when that light at the end of the tunnel gets dim we will start figuring out "end of life" stuff. It will depend on what level of SHTF we are at in 3 to 4 weeks.
ReplyDeleteThe more I read history the more I'm convinced that this will be a long span with many small to large falling off the waterfall events. We have now been in a multi-generational collapse. Before we get to no more power grid and no more guberment goons, (of course replaced by warlords) might be another generation.
As you refer to often, I think the "we are going to rebild the goverment to our liking after the collapse" preppers are in Unicorn land.
Government Rebuilders aren't even very good preppers, more like militia members with better logistics. Definitely Tier Four.
DeleteIt will be very long road from total collapse to rebuilding and resumed supplies. GOD has no place in thought processes as you have been forsaken anyway. If GOD was present and loved your asses this would not occur darling children. Your kids would have pet unicorns that farted fruitty skittles for snacks. Flush out your helmets, and yes, prepare mentally and physically to smite others as the on the ground situations dictate. Hesitation is as lethal. Tier 5 / 6 is not time for weak hearts and limp wrists. The writing should be large on the wall by then and most folks won't have any antiquated compunctions about what is necessary. If you have not gamed this out and are skittish about thought of slitting the throat of the friendly neighborhood dog to feed your self and family well eat a bullet and save everyone your drama.
ReplyDeleteI think the general assumption is that non self defense fighting is evil and immoral and we condone it by practicing it. Even if we are only resigned to its reality. Too much De Nile leads to drowning and crocs.
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