collapse camp 1 of 2 ( article 2 of 2 today )

article 2 of 2 today

COLLAPSE CAMP
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COLLAPSE CAMP

I just came across a statement to the effect that roughing it camping is worth it to avoid work and bills.  Granted, if you didn’t stress about work you wouldn’t need to go camping, and if you didn’t have bills you wouldn’t need to work ( as a broad guide-obviously we all need to eat necessitating some work.  I’m speaking of chasing the glittery unicorn lifestyle ), and if you didn’t work you couldn’t afford to go Modern Camping ( primitive camping is open to all, even or especially homeless dudes ), but that is certainly getting WAY too analytical.  Take the statement in the spirit it was intended.

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No one wants to live in dirt and pursue a primitive lifestyle, unless you actually make that your hobby and get so good at it you can both pursue luxury and be an expert that gets paid so you can afford a few modern conveniences such as metal snares and rimfire ammunition, because let’s be realistic.  No one is going to survive unless their very small tribe has a huge territory to hunt and gather in.  Varied by climate.  The Florida Indians certainly had it easier with a bigger population density than the northern Nevada locals, who pretty much were the Digger Indians everyone made fun of, the N-Bombs of their day living in the worst terrain of the continent.  The Apaches had it better.  Of course, they were also raiders instead of raid-ee’s.

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I didn’t call my living off grid “camping”, although I imagine some would think of that as roughing it.  When you have access to fresh meat and produce, and have solid walls to sleep behind, that ain’t camping.  Parking an RV at a camp site, even without utility hook-ups, that ain’t camping.  Hiking in with everything on your back, that is camping, as far as roughing it.  I would even break THAT down into modern ultra-light expensive equipment and/or a short hike as “not roughing it”.  If money is buying everything, including convenience, you can’t pretend to be living a rugged and macho lifestyle.

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Which kind of sounds like what Pretty Pony Princess Preppers do, doesn’t it?  Buying the best money can buy and then thinking that makes them an intrepid survivor/adventurer.  If you want to really impress me, equip like a cowboy and go camping, not like a Navy SEAL.  Hell, I’ll even allow an AR-15 in your kit, being as how it is the lever action of today ( although given the price of ammunition 100 years ago, I don’t believe they ever lost track of how wasteful it was to spray lead ).  Sure, there were more powerful rifles of the day.  Cowpokes weren’t under any illusion they were snipers ( called sharpshooters back then? ) and carbines were better suited for their skill set.  Remember that as you lust after a full powered cartridge battle rifle.

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Anyway, enough beating that dead hobby horse.  When I came across the statement “camping is worth avoiding work and bills”, I immediately thought of the collapse being viewed the same way.  None of us are under any illusions that camping in a roughing it sort of way is glamorous or desirable, certainly not for any length of time.  It is preferable to working, in a vacation capacity, not in a homeless way.  And none of us are really honest injun looking forward to murder and famine and a 99% die-off.  We are looking forward to the death of politicians and lawyers ( that includes you up there in Idaho, Economic Collapse Blog Guy, you flakey Jesus Freak Poser ), bankers and ex-wives.  The price you must pay for that is the very collapse that expatiated their demise.

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Anytime you serious prep, as in prep for the actually collapse of civilization, you are smeared with the crazy survivalist label, even from other preppers.  And they always play the “creepy humper WANTS to see all the death and destruction” card.  As if we shall glory in it.  Now, the very few that have a sense of humor, amongst the Doomer folk ( another smear label ), might come across that way, joking about body counts, God sorting out the casualties, and etcetera, but that is just the same morbid sense of humor that cops and the military use as a coping mechanism.

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( except officers in the military.  They have zero sense of humor.  They also have zero exposure to danger, relatively speaking for the most part.  I imagine the ones exhibiting any humor are certain to get transferred to the front line, an attrition to keep the Corp pure and serious.  Since the entire officiating body in the military is grossly incompetent, they all rely purely on appearances to look competent.  Kind of like a lot of females )

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No one wants to be camping as a homeless person, and no one wants an apocalypse unless they are far removed from its effects.  Kind of like the civilians that set up a picnic to view the glorious victory of their magnanimous Yankee Boys In Blue who would teach those treacherous scoundrels that the Union was no longer a voluntary membership, then had to scamper away in panic, ass over teakettle, when things turned south, you can be a little too close to the conflict if you need a good view.

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Safely removed from any stray shrapnel, the coming battle can be viewed in a more detached and indifferent manner.  Which is the place you want to be if at all possible.  Be the redneck up on the hill laughing at all the rich bitches running away in panic as civilian wagons are blown up by artillery.  THEN you can enjoy the spectacle.  Not because you want to necessarily participate or enjoy a close view of the carnage, but precisely because you don’t have to.  Those not adequately prepared, that don’t have the proper tools for camping, as it were, will be forced to be too close to the battlefield.  The smart ones won’t. 

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With tools and knowledge, camping in the most primitive manner can be enjoyable.  So with the apocalypse.  We aren’t enjoying it because others are dying, we are able to enjoy it because we are not a casualty.  And to be more precise, tools and knowledge for the apocalypse also follow in the same vein as those for camping.  They have to be the right kind of tools and knowledge.  I think we’ll explore that tomorrow.

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