plan on clan

PLAN ON CLAN

What do you always hear from Survivalist Guru’s ( even myself, though muted or with qualifiers )?  Move out to the country.  Move away from the city.  It is sound advice, but it is also mostly unrealistic.  I didn’t move out to the country-I moved out to the suburbs, even if compared to your built up on grid suburb yours looks different than my dusty forgotten patch of nothing.  Back East where five miles included swamps, muddy roads, mountains and forest, that might be enough space.  Here in the West, not so much.

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Moving out to the middle of BTE is a great idea, but far more problematic than admitted ( just the petroleum dependence alone will bite you in the ass ), and it is also very unrealistic for all but those who can pay for a consultant to tell them which half million dollar home is preferable.  Working class folks are probably the best off just moving to as small of a city as possible with an affordable lot of land as close to that as feasible.  BUT!  That is just finances and job security.  What about a far more important factor-tribal.

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We can’t afford a survival group.  They are not cheap in most instances.  You either are a far flung group that agrees to pool resources to centralize when needed ( which not only costs money but also time to keep in touch planning and training in meatspace ), or you must buy all the supplies to bribe others to join you.  Then, crap hit’s the fan, they join you, eat your food, then try to tell you what to do for their convenience.  Only successful tribes form from unquestioned loyalty in return for resources, caloric and strategic, and the dynamic of bribing another to join your group dooms you from the start ( that will be a separate article ).

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So, since we can afford neither hell and gone boonie retreats nor buying our way into a group, we do the best we can with what we’ve got and remain content with our “other life ( non-prepper” )” friends and family.  They offer NO chance of a survival group, they are nothing expect your normal life support group.  Your clan or tribe.  We are Monkey Men and we all need a support group.  And if that means sacrificing a safer place, that is what most folks do.  I’m a bit less needy of groups, content with mere casual contact with other humans, but I still can’t function properly in my preferred role of hermit.

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So, let’s follow that thread.  We can all agree that THE safest way to prepare would be to assume a location of a hermit.  So far out past the electric grid or paved road that only the most dedicated hiker would even come close.  Twenty years of supplies ferried out by gasoline ATV in one orgasmic investment period, then disposed of to slash that civilization resupply link ( foot or bike transport after that, no more than monthly ).  Damn, just talking about it makes me fantasize.  Now, how realistic is that?  For 99.99% of us, not very, at all.  Why?  We need to live with other humans.

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So, right off the bat, you have compromised your survival plans by NOT following the best advice on prepping.  Let’s face it, all this blather and On High advice is bullspit just from that alone.  If the experts are so expert, the ONLY advice they would give you would be to disappear and Go Hermit.  That is really the only surefire way to survive.  Well, survive your fellow men.  No guarantees with bears.  So, by compromising and allowing you to get much closer to danger ( even most Redoubt Retreats are merely one gravel driveway away from a paved road, so all those Super Ninja Hidden Retreats are still on the map and easily accessible ), just how good is the rest of their advice?

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Again, I’m NOT saying they are giving you unrealistic advice ( except financially ), I’m saying their nearly impossible practical advice isn’t really as safe as they or you assume.  By the very nature of being near enough people to socialize with, you are in danger.  Not from city dwellers far away, but from the locals themselves.  Not everyone.  Some folks have like minded neighbors.  But the majority.  So, the situation as it stands for The Best It Gets is that you are out of the city but still either On Grid or real darn close with neighbors you can trust. 

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Which, I might remind you, can happen anywhere in rural agricultural areas, not just Idaho ( the prepper ideal which is not very far removed from Spokane Washington, I might remind you ).  And, I must also remind you, is JUST the ideal.  It isn’t the NORM.  Most folks have suck ass neighbors.  Our culture has disintegrated for so long ( fifty years, two generations ) that the odds of having mannered prepared neighbors approaches Lottery Odds.  So, you can’t be truly safe, except as a hermit.  You can’t be all that safe in the boonies Near Grid.  As in, realistically for most people.

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So most folks are probably going to be suburban preppers.  Even the “two acres of woods” is right next door to the neighbors two acres within comfortable walking distance of a town which is just outside of a city.  Damn overpopulation.  Thanks, Trump, let in another fifty thousand Muslims next year just to rub salt in our wounds ( hey, we must deserve it-we are poor ).  Now, that sucks, being a suburban prepper.  It is in fact too close to other people.  But, really, how bad off are you?  If the Prepper Ideal as preached isn’t as safe as alleged, because it isn’t Hermit Survivalism, how much worse are you as a suburban prepper?  You have more neighbors, granted.  So what?  It takes about three guys to kill you.  If thirty thousand, three hundred thousand or three million other neighbors are right behind them, you are still dead.

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Yes, it is true that the less people who are around the better your odds are.  Does that make you more safe or does that just mean we don’t understand probability well enough?  If your county has three people per square mile, instead of three hundred, does it matter?  You aren’t living in the square mile that has zero folks, you are living in the one with dozens per.  Darn that stinking “average”. 

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I’m NOT telling you that the conventional advice is wrong.  Less people is ALWAYS better.  Get away from as many as you can.  I’m telling you that LESS might still be a false sense of security.  Hell, you might have the Judas sleeping in your same bed ( trophy wives are only loyal to your wallet, not you.  That poor gal who sticks with you through poverty, that’s the keeper.  So what if her boobs sag?  They are easier to grab that way when you jam her up against the wall ).  If you have ANY people around you ( the current non-loyalty type ), that is more dangerous than being in a more populated area with your loyal clan to fall back on in times of trouble.

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