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Okay, so the ability to change is blocked by our natural programming.  The same programming that makes males predisposed towards violence.  The violence isn’t good or evil, despite all the gnashing of teeth to the contrary ( because all they are doing is making OUR violence good and YOUR violence evil-it is subjective, not absolute ).  It just IS.  That is how it is.  Women are predisposed towards adoptive group loyalty-that doesn’t make them disloyal or indecisive.  It just IS.  They are all survival traits.  Resisting change lowers risk.  Violence protects the tribe.  And imprinting women protect their spawn regardless of power struggles.

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We can easily change, and do, as either individuals or groups, but only after pain.  Pain changes programming.  Robert Anton Wilson, the hippie that dropped a railcar full of LSD and wrote all those cool parodies on conspiracy theories ( Schrödinger’s Cat, etc. ), was great at mind reprogramming.  One example that stuck with me thirty five years after reading it was that whenever he used vocabulary that reinforced a behavior he was trying to change, he would grab a big ass rubber band he always wore and zapped himself.  The negative reinforcement, the pain, brought mental change.

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Now, that is how programming is EASY.  There is a much harder way, which of course is the way we all try to change, which is by utilizing willpower.  Now, to be clear, I’m talking about change that goes AGAINST prior programming.  If, say, you were really poor growing up, changing your habits to begin stockpiling food is easy.  You are already programmed to fear going without food.  What would really be hard would be to NOT insure against inadequate calories.  So the habits we attempt to change, either eliminating one or adding one, are hard only if it goes against core programming.  You can change superficially all the time, just by practicing not being lazy.

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A slob who goes into the military and comes out an OCD clean freak didn’t change out of discipline or instruction.  He changed after an application of pain.  THEN the discipline or instruction became his new programming.  This is why willpower alone is not sufficient.  If you had a painful experience that demanded change, THEN you add willpower to reprogram.  The best example I can think of is the Two Movies In One, Where The First Was Great And The Second Blew Rabid Monkey Testicles, “Full Metal Jacket”.  The fat guy couldn’t adapt to being a Jarhead until he got a Blanket Party.  That severe trauma refocused and reprogrammed him into suddenly having the focus and will to retain his training.

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He had a block against change.  Then he didn’t.  So I am the last person that would tell you that all this change we talk about is easy.  It isn’t.  Rejecting the Oil Age and all it entails isn’t easy.  Not because the WAY to do it is hard.  It is as simple as can be.  The hard part is DECIDING to change.  IF you can flick the switch, wonderful things ensue.  But that switch isn’t meant to flip, without pain and trauma.  That alone explains Pretty Pony Preppers.  They are Oil Age Preppers not because of all the mean things I call them ( morons, lazy bastards, pussies ), but because they cannot change.  I should be all like sympathetic and such, but of course I’m not.  That is human nature too.  I’m mocking another culture.

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All the money in the world, and all the will, will NOT change your basic programming ( for the most part-exceptions prove rules ).  If you don’t truly fear NOT having that food stockpile, not having those weapons, not having the mortgage free hovel, you won’t REALLY be a survivalist.  As an example, I of all people know the extreme danger we are in and the obvious no doubt end we are facing.  Die-off, and soon.  And yet, I’m not out of total danger in my lifestyle choice because I really only ever experienced pain and trauma financially and so I only really ever planned for economic collapse.

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Now, I’m so fearful of once again being poor and hungry that I take economic collapse planning to extreme lengths, true.  And THAT will be very helpful during a full blown die-off.  But helpful isn’t the same as fully prepared, is it?  I should be living in the boonies, as a hermit, NOT in town ready to go live in my rural suburb BPOD with neighbors nearby.  I have all the spaceship/lifeboat stockpile needed to survive on my own but I don’t have ENOUGH protection against the fools out there.  I can justify it.  “Oh, I won’t live much longer.  I’m making every day count, living as I’ve always wanted to but never could, with a loving spouse for companionship”.

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But that is how we roll avoiding change.  We ALWAYS justify it somehow or another.  But if we can change, one small reprogramming can reap rewards ( at this time, I’m fresh out of answers on HOW ).  If all we start fearing is, say, debt.  I mean, so fearful of you on owing anyone anything that it is more painful for you to live in a McMansion than a RV.  Think on how everything would change on just that one fear.  You would have savings that enabled the whole prepper lifestyle.  You would WANT to move out of the city, away from crowds, away from a good paying job.  ONE fear, and your whole life changes. 

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Fear enables reprogramming.  Reprogramming makes all those previously difficult and impossible changes not just easier, but turns them into actual compulsions.  All your compulsions now are cultural programming incapable of EASY change.  The trick is to change on your own, before you are forced to by changing circumstances.  Because by then, it is too late.  The only thing I can think to recommend is that you find that one fear that changes everything else. Fear other people?  Fear imprisonment?  Fear the government?  I’m talking about a fear that is far stronger than any fear of change.  Then, perhaps, you can build and channel that fear, and then actually change.  Good luck-you’ll need it!

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