nonstranger danger

NONSTRANGER DANGER

I’m going to sum up all the necessary survivalist advice in one paragraph and then you never have to bother with me again ( if you keep reading, its just details ).  One, food first.  Nothing is simpler than that.  Everything else is just about eating.  No one has an excuse to not store food.  Two liter bottles are free and everywhere, trash looking for a home.  Number two, everyone wants your food and everything else not food related is about safeguarding your food.  That includes “stay away from crowds”, living off grid, the arguments over the best arsenal, etc.  Number three, nothing is worth spit if it isn’t a food accessory.  There are your three rules of survival.  The only reason I cover anything more is, simply, because the devil is in the details ( plus, this is like my job, and stuff ).

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Today I’ll cover non-stranger danger.  The danger of family, to include the wife.  Look, this isn’t all that complicated.  In societies that have almost no access to money, family matters.  It is the security blanket everyone needs which supplements tribal organization.  But in a money society, family doesn’t matter a thimbleful of warm spit.  It isn’t worth the dingle ball hanging from the pimple on your ass.  Only money matters because money is everyone’s security blanket.  Anything you think or hear to the contrary is wishful thinking, denial and propaganda.  I’m NOT trying to diminish anyone’s feelings or contributions here.

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I’m stating that when the times get hard, where the rubber meets the road, in complex civilizations money trumps personal connections.  Not what people say but what they do.  Allow me to demonstrate, yes?  Off the top of your head, name two demographics that still retain strong family values.  Anyone?  Bueller?  I’d say Blacks and Hillbillies.  Now, obviously that isn’t so simple as that.  Black families are tight knit, but only in a matriarchal sense, not as a nuclear family. 

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What the two have in common are extreme poverty that has no outlet.  Poor urban Whites can ( or could ) work their way up and out, but the backwoods South and the Black communities are dead ends culturally for the most part.  Don’t point out Oprah or a redneck author living in New York City.  I’m talking about the economically oppressed generally.  The groups the ruling Yankee Scum exploit by default.  Just because they pimp out the exception doesn’t disprove the rule.  What I’m getting at here is that everywhere else, family has been supplanted by money.

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But, ohh, Mr. Carter, Mister Carter, what about the Leave It To Beaver happy little families way back when the economy was wonderful?  Yes, exactly.  Functioning economies allowed for functional families as there were the needed energy surplus to do so.  I can’t understand how so many of us still think the economy is going to crash in the future.  It ALREADY did, way in the past.  I know you think the world revolves around YOU ( it doesn’t, dumb ass, it revolves around ME ), but just because you still have a job doesn’t mean little brown people aren’t starving overseas or that we aren’t yet in collapse. 

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Dysfunctional families became the norm the same time our economy went to crap as our per capita energy availability started declining ( don’t look at the barrel of oils pumped, look at the net energy they delivered, now sprinkle on population growth ).  It was about money back before then-there is enough for everyone to have a surplus-and it has been about money ever since, and as we became as crowded as some bubonic plague infested Indian city, family and clan and tribe has lost all importance and money has gained in that. 

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I know you are resisting me right now.  Luke, come to the Dark Side!  You either were raised in a family of the persecuted class, the 9% straw boss class, were extremely lucky or sheltered, or are just being stubborn and don’t like reality ( ooohhh!  That’s a good trait for a prepper! ).  If you’ve ever been through a divorce or a fight over inheritance, you’ve seen monetary prioritization.  I’m not saying there wasn’t love or obligation, I’m saying they might have survived in spite of money, not because they were paramount themselves.

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Latch key kids?  Cha-ching!  Parents left to their fate in a retirement state?  Show me da money!  Kids used as bargaining chips or trophies in a divorce?  Payday!  Family disowned over money matters?  Loyal employee of nineteen years discarded for a 10% salary savings?  College tuition used as leverage?  It used to be you disowned family over clan/tribe/loyalty issues.  Marrying another religion or race, teenage pregnancy, etc.  Now, squabbles over money.  For the simple reason the pie is shrinking.

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It isn’t greed or idiocy as much as it is security and desperation.  But by now, it is also institutionally engrained.  An infrastructure has been built for family disloyalty.  Any family you have which has not demonstrated loyalty and suffering over money is your potential enemy.  You cannot slather lipstick on that pig.  Obviously, money isn’t worth spit after the apocalypse, but if they were money hungry and disloyal prior, they are parasites and dangerous afterwards.  Because there never was loyalty, only a recon for wealth.  They might not actually in fact murder you in your sleep, but they might as well with their otherwise life threatening actions or inactions.

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And they will be the first ones to cry “family” in defense.  As I’ve said before, they offer no fealty but demand yours.  They are users and haters.  The wife might not stab you in your sleep, but she can open the door for her lover to do so.  Your daughter might let or encourage her husband to depose you as the leader of the retreat, and then as none have any balls they will do you the “favor” of letting you leave alive, with nothing.  And yes, I know most of you are doubting me.  After all, this isn’t supposed to be how family acts. 

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Just do yourself a favor.  Be wary, and make a back-up plan only you know about, if you have the slightest doubt.  A $150 shotgun and a hundred bucks in food ( 300 pounds of wheat and a grinder ) is a pretty cheap insurance policy to safeguard yourself as you test family loyalty after the collapse.  If you don’t need it for that, there are other uses for that stash.

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