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LESS FAST COLLAPSE 2
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Most survivalists are prepped for total and complete system collapse.  And that makes sense.  Because the system is so vulnerable and it is a miracle it has lasted this long.  You can prep and not understand WHY, or know the details, you will do just fine by understanding that This Suckers Going Down.  Only the timing is subject to question, so if you are smarter than a box of rocks you are already prepared for the total collapse.  Since my whole shtick is frugal preparedness, and I prepped working minimum wage supporting two wives, I have no sympathy for anyone who cannot be prepared for total collapse, yesterday.

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Oh, boo humping hoo, you have to give up your car to do so.  The car is toast anyway, BEFORE the complete collapse.  If you were alive and sentient during the 1970’s, you should have already realized this.  It is going to be difficult enough to keep your bicycle in tires ( they are not rubber but made of petroleum ), and think an auto has a viable future?  Posh!  Anyway, I won’t dwell on that.  If you can’t accept that your obsession with an automobile borders on sexual perversion and cannot make that sacrifice now, I don’t see you surviving the collapse.  YOUR decisions make an auto essential, but they were never more than a luxury and a want rather than a need.

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So, congratulations, you are now ready for the complete collapse of civilization.  You might not be able to survive a nuclear war of historically epic proportions, or an asteroid strike that ushers in a five year long “nuclear winter” event, but you are otherwise pretty well set [ as an aside, I read one of my favorite new post-apoc books, “Cannibal Reign” by Thomas Kolonair, for the third time and it finally clicked why this plot sucked-but not the story!-the nuclear winter not only ended too soon but the Oil Age was allowed to continue unhampered.  Sorry, I can’t remember if I shared that before in an article or if it was in the comments section ).

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Well, after I harassed you and vilified you for years, yes, you eventually got some wheat and more ammo and you are good for multiple years of collapse living.  And then you assumed the old prepping trope “prepare for the worst and all the little things are prepared for”.  And then I started telling you that all that hard work and sacrifice?  It wasn’t enough.  You needed to survive the extended economic collapse.  Total collapse preps weren’t going to pay your property taxes, nor would they buy gasoline or feed you enough to go to your ten hour a week underpaid job.  What a killjoy!  First I say get rid of the car ( which you didn’t, of course ) and now I’m all, like, dude, where’s the junk land and silver and ability to live in genteel poverty?

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But really, living out the extended less fast collapse on your total collapse preps isn’t completely impossible.  You cannot live out of your stockpile, but you can and should try to live off of a comparable duplicate one.  You aren’t eating your stockpiled wheat, but you are going to the feed store and buying more and eating THAT.  You aren’t hunting with stored ammo but ammo you bought now ( rotation if needed on other items-wheat and ammo will outlast you ).  You aren’t endangering your supplies for the apocalypse, because that IS coming, but you are living closer to those supplies.

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If you homestead, often there is little in the way of total collapse preps.  If you went all in on total collapse preps, you are generally not in a position to decrease your living costs by homesteading more.  I don’t really mean growing your own food.  Few homesteaders get past the garden vegetables which are vitamins rather than calories ( except potatoes which are both ).  And I’m not claiming homesteading is cheaper than grid living because it certainly is not.  Building new infrastructure can quickly get expensive if you let it.  I’m speaking of insuring against all but the worst systems disruptions, which homesteading does to a degree but on grid corporate job expensive prepping does not very well.

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On grid prepping only insulates you during a total collapse, somewhat.  Homesteading insulates you from partial systems collapse, somewhat.  The two can overlap, but even a generator to keep freezer items cold isn’t going to work well in systems collapse as you run out of fuel.  Solar power off grid will keep that system going far longer, even if at a higher price.  What I am suggesting is that you merge the two systems to gain resiliency against slow system collapse.  To supplement your Total Collapse Preps with less fast collapse preps.  Of course, the trick is to do this now voluntarily rather than wait until everyone is forced to do so against their will, because then you won’t have the resources.

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If you are only ready for complete collapse, think about what you need for less fast collapse.  If you are only ready for long slow collapse, you need to focus on total collapse preps.  Six months food supply for the apocalypse is completely nonviable.  Start at three years and go up.  Wheat only ( remember, you can mix in white flour if buying whole grain kernels in your area is expensive ) with some shortening and vitamin pills thrown in will suck as a diet, but it will keep you alive ( much better than freeze dried, I’d wager-and yes, I wager on that by my own preps ).

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In essence what you are looking at is not JUST surviving half a decade after the apocalypse, but also five years without a job or Food Stamps or Social Security mostly wiped out by hyperinflation.  Still think you can own and operate that car with $20 a gallon gas and all loans indexed to inflation, with true unemployment at 60%?  Sorry, it had to be said.  The question isn’t if the collapse will arrive.  It will.  The question is, how long must we suffer through huge declines before the collapse, and are you ready for that?

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I trust you already have that six months everyday grocery stockpile, to reduce your shopping to Sale Items ONLY.  Expand that to two years for dry goods and then can another six months of meat ( to go along with your six months frozen ).  That costs about $300 for all the jars and lids plus the pressure canner.  About the same cost as buying another freezer.  You know the brown-outs will start sometime during the Less Fast Collapse, so you might as well prep for that.  You’ll need to cash out the 401k and pay off the house ( that money would be Bail-In’ed anyway ), or get junk land or have an RV squat or something, to plan for your job going away.

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You know what needs to be done.  You may not want to, but you can’t stock the shed full of wheat buckets and buy another Spam Can full of Mosin-Nagant ammo and call your preps good.  You know that.  Here was just a friendly reminder.  You are welcome.

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