tripwire

TRIPWIRE

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Will there be a tripwire event?  For the longest time I’ve been skeptical of this idea.  Why?  Because far too many preppers are awaiting the “tripwire event” that let’s them know when to bug out.  When to empty their bank account and buy supplies.  When to finally worry about everything they should have concentrated on years ago, like the danger of crowds.  Or the vulnerability of our currency ( who gives a crap about the stock market?! You know, I know and Ross Perot knows that the bitch is rigged and has no bearing on the economy other than an inflation sponge.  Worry about the PetroDollar-there is a much more dangerous trend ).

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The reading of post-apocalypse fiction is particularly rank with the smell of this concept.  We all read PA fiction “to give us ideas on how different scenarios could unfold”.  Most people mean how the collapse occurs.  I mean it as a tactical tool.  As in, I didn’t think about that trick the enemy will use.  But all of us should beware that even if only subconsciously we are having the tripwire concept reinforced.  Because book plots don’t exactly encourage long term subtle multifaceted cause and effect system wide disintegration.  It is all tripwires.  One day the character is dealing with a ball busting wife and a craphole licking boss and the next the zombies are shuffling around and moaning. 

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My basic understanding is, hey, signs of collapse are all around us.  Why are we waiting for a tripwire event?  What will we do differently then?  Not go to work, eat from the pantry rather than the store and finally be able to shoot the loud obnoxious neighbor.  Okay, great.  You need to know when all that is allowed and encouraged.  But you can’t know what events are going to flip us over the waterfall lip.  It won’t be as easy of a read as the obvious power being shut off.  Oh, but I am a prepper!, you explain as if to a small retarded child.  I’ll KNOW!

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Why?  Because your digital watch and cell phone will show no screen?  So you know that it was an EMP rather than the standard regular black out caused by deferred maintenance?  All we can be sure of with a flare or device is that wires intensify the effect.  There are too many contradicting claims and studies out there to know for sure if cars will still run or if anything without a wire will work or not.  We can guess and plan but we don’t know for sure.  It isn’t even probabilities but suppositions.   We all Faraday Cage small electrics just in case because it costs almost nothing and is a better safe than sorry.  But our knowledge is so incomplete it isn’t even funny.

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( you’ll recall that Carrington was telegraph wires, the Pacific nuke was only streetlights and the Canadian solar effect only hit the electric grid rather than cars or electronic devices.  You can argue the pulse wasn’t strong enough.  I’m only arguing that this is incomplete information regardless ).

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So in the case of economic collapse, we are looking at an indicator that no longer applies ( the stock market, controlled and managed since 1987 ).  In the case of an EMP we don’t even know if we’ll know.  Not for sure.  What other tripwires are false indicators?  Folks keep looking for the event that will tripwire the federal government into a police state or dictatorship.  Why?  There is already one in place.  We have “indefinite detention without trial”, just like in the worst South American dictatorship.  We already had concentration camps and asset forfeiture in 1942.  The NSA gathers far more intelligence on its citizens than the Stasi ever did.  We already torture prisoners and prisoners of war.  Calling them enhanced interrogation techniques doesn’t stop making it torture.

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Why are folks waiting for the police state tripwire if it is already a reality?  Because they fear for their tacticool plastic poodle shooting carbines?  The police don’t have to go door to door to confiscate guns.  They never needed proof that Al Capone killed people ( they also didn’t need proof that Charles Manson killed anyone.  Nor does all the proof in the world a pharmaceutical company CEO is killing thousands mean he’ll end up in prison ), they just got him in jail through tax fraud.  Just like the 60’s radicals were jailed on marijuana possession rather than on any terrorist or treason acts.  You don’t need gun control when you have food control.

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Your tripwire observation skills are wasted on the wrong targets and this both makes you vulnerable and wastes your time and increases your stress ( like when your blood pressure spikes every time there is a mass shooting and you think gun control is right around the corner.  You mean, like it was in the 1930’s, the ‘60’s and the ‘80’s?  All that did was make guns far more expensive. It was Po Boy gun control, not rich bitch gun control.  Class warfare is not gun control ).  No one is saying you should ignore the news and avoid situational awareness.  But you should be aware that there are few tripwire events you can rely on.  You aren’t going to be thrown in the pot of boiling water which you can jump out of.  Rather you are already in the pot and you can’t tell when the temperature is going up.

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More than likely, the power goes out and even with your Vast Important One Of A Kind Knowledge, you’ll just think it is a regular power outage.  You’ll stay in place like all the rest of the sheeple because you ain’t as aware as you think.  If you were, you’d be living off grid anyway, far from the crowds.  I would wager at least a jelly filled donut that every single swinging dingus minion out there has a higher level of skills than I do and could escape the Rat Race far easier than I did.  Your only excuse is very important to yourself, but that won’t change the consequences.  You are using tripwires as an excuse and a crutch.  Not that I’m saying I’m much better.  I still use the Better Than Nothing “even if I’m not living far enough away I’m still able to get away”.  It’s okay to do BTN.  Just don’t ignore the risks in that.

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