survival hermitage book 5

SURVIVAL HERITAGE BOOK 5

WHY TRIBE? Continued.

Okay, so everyone is a danger, especially potential tribe members.  Why, you innocently ask as I gaze upon your empty skull in amusement, a wise teacher bemused by his students?  Because you are inviting those potential enemies inside your perimeter.  If you think Charlie is dangerous OUTSIDE, wait until you invite him to diner.  The most dangerous people are those you thought you could trust, like that sweet innocent gal teaching your Little Johnny about Butt Pirates, how diversity is our strength and the joys of being a Soy Boy.  But far more dangerous than delayed philosophical confusion.

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Your only alternative to trusting the lazy, greedy No Budgeting Mo-Fo’s to NOT screw you when their pathetic stash runs out is to stock up for them, in such quantities as they don’t see the benefit in killing you off and stealing your supplies.  AND to stock up for all their parasitic worthless camp followers.  Can you afford all that?  If so, go with God.  If not, you have no other alternative than trying to hide out from everyone and going it alone.  Being a hermit.  So, to the means to that end.

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Just being a hermit is going to go a long ways protecting you.  If nobody knows you are there it is hard to decide to attack you for the extra succulent flesh on your ass.  But there is a lot you need to do to substitute for extra people. There is no one to help you fight, no one to help you raise food.  No one to help build or gather firewood.  No one to patrol or guard for you.  You’ll need to do this yourself.  It obviously won’t be easy.  Neither is dealing with spoiled rotten idiots who think you owe them a life of luxury.

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Who said Apocalypses would be easy?  Marketing departments of prepper suppliers and most periodicals covering that field would lead you to believe that with a mere swipe of a credit card all good things are possible after a collapse, but only flaming idiots believe that.  But if not easy, we will at least aim at the situation most lonely preppers will find themselves.  Alone and old.  Like the geriatric rest home, but with better food.  You need to plan on not just being alone, but weak.  Most older preppers assume they need Oil Age tools.

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And you DO, but they really cannot be Fueled Tools.  An easy For Instance is that you cannot store a huge yard full of propane tanks for heat.  But super insulated homes with Oil Age insulation, that is great.  So insulated that solar gain ( cheap and affordable window panes are strictly Oil Age ) will keep you comfortable all day, and then you only need a few scraps of wood for night use ( and solar cookers for most daytime cooking ).  You avoid noisy chainsaws, unaffordable propane tanks of industrial size, and the need for help gathering wood.

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Firearms are a necessary tool, but they are also over rated and planned for inappropriately.  A semi-auto makes you far LESS effective than simply common sense applied tactics.  If you are a skilled woodsman, a bow would be adequate for guerrilla warfare, with at most a sidearm as back-up.  Far better to strike out without warning than having a plan to lay down covering fire in the hundreds of rounds.  If you have little cover, such as in the desert, a single shot ambush and a quick escape is also better than gearing up in Ninja submachinegunner gear.  

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You still need Oil Age tools, but one type of use is consuming and the other is conserving.  Wheat or other grains in storage is far cheaper and smarter than being in a agriculture location that is sure to be a target, and needing both supplies to equip a tribe for farming AND to protect the farm.  In theory you eat up all your stored food then die.  But also in theory you are overrun and killed for that farm that was planned on to feed you forever, anyway.  “Smart plans” must also be affordable and realistic.

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Another objection to not having a tribe is that it will be difficult to join a tribe after the die-off.  If you were twenty years old, I can understand your concern.  Are you?  Most of us are old.  Something like 40% of respondents in an online poll were preppers over age sixty.  Another large percentage were no where near as young as combat effectives would be.  My days of running about without heaving up a lung are about a half decade past, as of this writing.  Oh, you say, best be joining a tribe so you can just be a sedentary guard, right?

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Well, no.  Because not only are people evil and dangerous, they are also stupid.  Seriously.  Even those well read and logical, with education, do really stupid crap all the time.  Like myself, living in town.  I have hermitage property.  I have all the supplies I’d ever need.  I’m self employed from writing.  I KNOW I need to live out there.  And I don’t.  It doesn’t matter what excuse I use ( wanting to live my last year’s happy, with a companion ), the simple fact of the matter is that what I’m doing is really humping stupid.

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People are used to being stupid.  Look at how your pecker led you around for near forty years.  Look what makes you happy-a full belly and mindless entertainment ( you watch football, I watch movies or read ).  Individuals no matter how smart, act stupid.  We almost always run our societies to allow for stupid.  Everyone says, strength in numbers.  But those numbers are a bunch of friggin morons.  No matter what plan you come up with for survival, you are usually better off being on your own.  At least you know how your dumb ass will act.  You want to rely on another idiot for combat?

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Even if nothing else, THAT idiot will prioritize his own survival.  That is just the way it is, with ad hoc groups.  If you weren’t born and raised in a tribe, there is NO infrastructure built up to minimize the stupid and maximize everyone’s chances for survival.  THAT right there is the biggest reason to NOT form a tribe whole cloth.  It is an inferior organization.  BORN to tribe is best, followed by lone wolf.  The least effective is forming a tribe.  Because a tribe of what used to be individuals will always remain individualistic. 

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