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UNEMPLOYED IN THE APOCALYPSE

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You probably suffer from hubris, the same as the American Empire itself.  It is institutionalized.  It isn’t really your fault, and I forgive you, so don’t beat yourself up about it.  As I have detailed before, you are trying to be the survivalist your grand pappy was.  And you can’t.  That world doesn’t exist anymore.  Look at it this way.  You really cannot go back to being a hunter/gatherer.  It is a superior lifestyle in many ways ( health, spiritually, stress wise ), but all the butt boys who threw seeds in the ground to gain a strategic advantage ( all about the food, remember? ) screwed it up for everyone.

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Everywhere you try to go back to for hunting will see your area either too populated, too exploited or too friggin desolate.  The Amazon indigs are in a lush tropical ( cough, cough ) paradise, and suffer from animal protein deficiency.  It is only an area of abundance if you are a rabbit.  And while you can find areas suitable for very small families to survive hunting and gathering, it won’t scale up into tribes.  As soon as the oil age industrialized food system breaks down, your AO will be stripped of edibles within days to weeks.

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So, since it would be foolish to rely on hunting/gathering almost everywhere, you sigh tragically and just accept that it isn’t a viable strategy ( and all of you eventually in a feasible wilderness, if it happens, must militarily face the broccoli brigades invading from elsewhere ).  There is still tons and oodles and gobs of advice out there on living hunter/gatherer as a prep strategy, but this advice is deadly.  What strategy works for them ( trapping, wild edibles ), can indeed work for you, but NOT you and a tribe, and there is its fundamental weakness.   I know you have your steel cable snares ready to go and don’t want to hear this, but there you are.

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Then there are those folks who advised you that you can survive at a 19^th century level of industry.  When this advice was given, it was actually feasible.  As a nation we still had, mostly, an intact culture and a low population and abundant ore and energy.  It would have been easy peasy to devolve back to a cottage industry survival mode.  But then a couple of whores in Congress got together and decided to open up the floodgates of little brown people, and it was all over but the crying.  Asset stripping commenced.

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( this was followed up by delinking to gold on our currency.  It wasn’t a BAD thing, as that was our only choice of kicking the can.  We had limited gold but seemingly unlimited Saudi oil.  Then we followed that up by selling our souls to the central bank, trading a lifetime of debt and servitude for continued abundance.  Or at least the appearance of abundance.  Look back at the 80’s.  What is the one defining cultural characteristic?  I submit it was Form Over Function.  We went Potemkin Village, appearance of action over actual action.  As long as the façade held up, we were happy.  It allowed us to think debt was wealth ).

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Once we quasi-colonized the former Soviet Union, Siberian oil allowed us to move from mining historical ore concentrations to VERY diffuse ores.  Microscopic ores, in which tons more dirt and rock were processed for the same ounce of ore, became normal with the application of ever more cheap ass energy.  Once we started doing that, we could no longer live a coal powered 19^th century lower tech cottage industry lifestyle.  And while we COULD have duplicated that rather well by only smelting already processed ore from industrial scrap, you still have that pesky issue of overpopulation. 

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While I have no hate for Mexicans, a culture I grew up next to ( not to mention the two Mexican wives ), I acknowledge that we have surrendered our culture to them, along with the Blacks and Bitches.  There are simply too many people here now, and in their haste to screw workers out of wages and Whites out of their votes the elite still failed to notice that when you jack up the cost of living through taxes and regulations even fertile Mexicans do not breed enough to pay for seniors feeding at the trough.  Simply, the Baby Boomers are STILL not paid for through immigration.  So now we have two problems, rather than one.  Overpopulation AND not enough taxpayers.

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Although, to be fair, immigration did provide the elite with what they actually wanted which was another two generations of increased wealth.  That is over now, the benefits, and only the price tag remains.  Over population is a two sided coin.  For all the strategic gain and wealth generation, you then get resource depletion.  Now, what does all this have to do with your grand pappy’s survivalism?  Past strategies are negated by changing circumstances.  A simple concept most survivalists are seemingly unaware of, if conventional “wisdom” is any indicator. 

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You cannot return to hunter/gathering, not as a group, due to overpopulation.  You can’t return to a coal powered simple industry economy due to resource depletion and overpopulation.  That seems straightforward enough, once explained.  And yet, folks that might agree with that see nothing wrong with trying to return to a 1950’s Leave It To Beaver Cold War society.  If you think about most survivalism advice, it pretty much mirrors fifty to sixty year old wisdom taught back then. 

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Processed foods ( freeze dried slop ), wiz-bang space age wonder weapons ( the M-16 ).  Resource abundance logistics ( semi-auto ).  And, importantly for our discussion here, instant apocalypse and the ‘Murican Way Of Life.  Most survivalists are seemingly planning on employment until ready, preparedness wise, and a Soviet nuclear strike.  They think unemployment won’t ever really effect them ( there is the hubris part ) and debt won’t matter since one day they’ll wake up and the infrastructure of the debt will have disappeared. 

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Since everyone who trained and worked hard could get a job for the last near eight decades, it must always be so.  And since debt has been good for nearly fifty years, it must always be so.  I would like to throw a dead mouse in your punchbowl and suggest that unemployment should factor into your plans far more importantly than guns or FLIR scopes.  Continued tomorrow.

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