another titanic analogy-article 1 of 2 today

ANOTHER TITANIC ANALOGY
( article 1 of 2 today )

I know, I’m overdue for another chapter in the Hermitage book.  I’m actually kind of glad now that my old computer had a Windows brain fart and swept away the first edition, which I was rather unhappy with. Starting over completely has been far more rewarding.  I’m enjoying working on it now.  If I don’t enjoy the writing you soon begin to dread the reading.  Anyway, that will probably be tomorrow.  And while I could have conceivable made this a chapter, I’ve chosen not to. The thing will be big enough as it is.  This was from a comment I answered.

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We are at a point where the Titanic crew is arguing over who gets to use the lifeboats ( one imagines the transgenders and Blacks should go first, if one of the crew were a progressive female diversity hire ).  But everyone is locked down below in steerage.  And nobody knows where the key is.  Nobody gets to use the lifeboats except the crew, but they will argue amongst themselves who has so little rank they must row.  Leaving no one rowing.  It is a comforting image, since at least the bastards in charge go down with us.

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But me and you, we are locked downstairs and will drown.  No way out, either.  Moving to a foreign country is just moving from one steerage room to another.  Moving out to a hermitage SHOULD work, but all it really means is that you found a steerage broom closet to hide in and you are betting no one will find you to steal your warm clothes ( the ship has not sunk, and everyone is fighting each other for food and clothing, assuming a rescue ship is on the way and they will be saved-after all, the ad was for an “unsinkable ship” ).

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Isn’t that what all the fuss by the elites is?  Between lying to us so we convince ourselves that ‘Murica is THE exception to the collapsing empire rule, and lying to us to force us to pretend that our loss of wealth to another approved class is our own fault, we lie to ourselves that if we can’t be saved ( despite all the evidence, we are still in denial about timing and severity ) at least we can get lucky and die of natural causes before the collapse die-off.  We think of rescue when only drowning is on the menu.

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As said better by Greer ( were you a bit pompous and far too opinionated to listen to others?  Sure.  But you were brilliant about certain things and your voice will always be treasured for your contribution ), we face a predicament which you think of as a problem.  A problem by definition can have a solution.  A predicament is unsolvable, a condition that can only be endured.  No one wants to hear that luxury and regular meals will soon be a thing of the past. 

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When someone actually is willing to listen, they temper that with arguing that timing will save them ( “sure, we are screwed, but not on MY watch!” ).  Not to say that they are wrong, just to argue that they can’t guarantee they are right.  It is like an old guy, refusing to believe he is no longer strong or virile.  He leases a trophy wife and acts tough.  Dude! Stop embarrassing yourself.  But don’t we do the same?  And then I write about it as if even our reactions to the predicament have correct solutions.  Which is just a tiny bit deliciously ironic, don’t you think?

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The predicament is overpopulation meets resource depletion.  Preppers think it is a problem solved by shopping.  They screwed up the definition thinking there was a problem, then used the wrong solution to that incorrect definition.  Shopping doesn’t do anything other than band-aid over the amputation.  We do it anyway, because what other choice do we have?  It is utterly worthless and futile.  But then, so was the band playing as the ship sunk.  It just made the predicament easier to endure.  A lot of folks self-medicate on drugs or booze, to make enduring the predicament easier ( so try not to judge ).

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What do we do?  We go shopping, like some Fifties housewife shopping for shoes to forget the fact she is bored now that the kids are in college ( she faces the predicament of infertility but pretends it is a problem fixed by substitution ).  Of course, since I preach frugal shopping, I’m OHHhhhh so much better than those pointing towards the direction of Nordstrum’s with its BMW or Prius parking.  This is my narrative, dammit! J I know shopping is not the answer.  But knowing no other answer ( NOT solution, just my answer to a predicament ) I double down.

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I want to be clear that I am NOT advocating McPhersonism.  “Oh, the human race is doomed from Gore Warming!  We are all going to die!”.  This isn’t an ELE ( extinction level event ). It is a mere bottleneck, if that.  Only MOST of us will die, not all.  You do understand that an AR and a few cases of freeze dried foods still leave you in the MOST category, right?  My bolt guns and tons of wheat still leave me in the same category.  I’ll just be the last one in the stewpot.

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Which makes ME the winner!  Suck on that, fellow doomed prepper.  I’m a better shoe shopper than you.  My quantity is better than your quality.  And that is how I’m dealing with the predicament.  I don’t have a solution, but my ideas just might push the predicament back long enough I die after most others.  I’ll have the strength and equipment to defend my broom closet and be one of the last ones to drown.  Essentially, I’ll be right.  And that is enough for me to face the predicament in good cheer. 

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