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LIVING IN A CAVE

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I’m at The Burning Platform today, simply amazed that my morning Internet reading has actually been very productive two whole days in a row ( it is rare to get one day that there is so much good read material it stretches out into three or four hours rather than half that ), and I’m reading something by Straight Line Logic ( I believe it was “declining and falling” ) with one reader posting that while the article was good, he wanted to know what he could do about the information besides just hiding out in a cave.

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I know where the poster was coming from.  You can forever read all these doom and gloom articles, either identifying the problem with no solution, or with one that is simply stupid ( if we all change our basic biology, we can save the world! ), and it gets frustrating.  And I’m not implying that people are lazy and should have figured out what to do on their own.  When you first encounter this kind of stuff, you really have zero idea how anyone can respond to it.  Look at the Cold War nuclear threat.  No one had really thought about how to react to the threat of near decimation, globally, and so in our confusion we blindly accepted what in hindsight seems silly.

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Despite it seemingly being a communist plot to get the Western powers to de-arm, the movie “Threads” is one of my favorites in dispelling some of these Feel Good Nonsense strategies.  Those government instructions on expedient fallout shelters were savaged rather well.  As were the underground bunkers.  Not that the depictions are necessarily completely correct-they just highlight how far too optimistic official coping strategies were.  That being the point.  When you cannot think about the unthinkable, you latch on to what seems at first to be a great coping strategy.

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Then, later, if you even take the time to think deeply about it, you realize what putrid swill you willingly quaffed.  The Cold War delivered our salvation in the form of too small underground shelters with inadequate rations ( not that you wanted much more in the way of sewage than what 500 calories a day in hard candy and Saltine crackers would deliver ) and far too optimistic recovery times ( seemingly calculated on affordable supplies on hand rather than the actual properties of radiation ).  The Gore Warming threat offered up mass pleading and prayer as a solution to industry pollutants ( but by gum, don’t you DARE think about giving up driving your SUV! ), as if we were still a bunch of dirty Hippies hoping to levitate the Pentagon through meditation.

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And the threat of civilization collapse?  It’s just Business As Usual because, well, by golly, in the past they took 300 years to happen.  We are all still good, dawg!  Plenty of time to profit off of warning about the Gore Warming, prescribing

permaculture and a solar panel with a CFL.  So, to demand any other solution besides living in a cave, you just want to hear the same historical balm to sooth your anxieties.  But, guess what?  Literally living in a cave is exactly your only solution.

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Yes, I understand this and don’t practice it.  I have the means to do so.  I own land far enough away to be safe, and I have the finances to rent a U-Haul to stock it, as well as rent power equipment to dig a new B-POD.  I could start today and be ready in a few months, if not sooner.  Fully aware of the danger of NOT doing so, I choose to have the first fulfilling relationship in my life, finally with a woman whose company I enjoy and who I can actually communicate with.  I choose a spouse over a safe harbor.  I just don’t have any illusions I’ve made the correct choice for survival.  I prep just in case I survive against all odds.

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Logically, how does being around any people you have not personally vetted, armed and provisioned for ( all the while having your benign version of a secret police in case of insurrection ) NOT dramatically decrease your life expectancy?  I understand most preppers subconsciously minimize the actual danger so as to cope with their poor decisions such as still living in the cities, but if you are actually honest with yourself, tabling all that BS you usually fine dine on, you know there is only one way to survive the Seneca Cliff die-off.  Hermitage ( I wonder if this will be my inspiration to re-try to write that book again?  I was actually sad when I had to stop writing it out of mental blockage-I think it is a necessary addition to strategy ).

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Living in a small town is a great economic collapse strategy, and a great Quality Of Life decision.  But it STILL blows as a die-off event plan.  It takes one bullet to kill you, and while four million bullets have a better chance of killing you, even if it is only four HUNDRED bullets your odds are still close to zero ( just not negative zero! ).  Until you get those odds down to one on one, and that only works since you have the home town advantage on any interlopers, you cannot hope to realistically survive.  The only other realistic alternative to hermitage is to bug out, and that is only viable if you have a butt load of supplies cached, AND can actually leave in time.

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Both of which are problematic.  Not impossible, but highly suspect viability wise.  We’ve talked of bug out time lines before.  If you are so weak and lazy you need all the luxuries a city home provides, there is NO friggin way you’ll be honest with yourself as to when to pull the cord on bugging out.  You’ll keep justifying putting that moment off.  I’m not judging-it is just human nature.  It doesn’t necessarily mean you have a character flaw.  We are all like that, fearing change.  It is an actual species survival mechanism ( not that it helps the individual survive ).  You must force yourself to change before it is needed.  As far as pre-supplied cache locations, and more, that will have to wait for tomorrow.

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