macro plan

MACRO PLAN

Most survivalism focuses primarily on the micro.  It is family and family domicile centric.  Not to suggest that you are ignoring the Big Picture.  That is the whole reason you are prepping ( global economic collapse, global overpopulation, severe weather returns and Peak Oil ).  But I think far too many of us see all this commotion and danger and simply pull into our shell and try to shrink our world view down to a sane and manageable level. The Hermitage Strategy is an extreme form of this.  I’ve been Turtle Shelling for ten years and it was glorious.

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I’m not sure how much of my peace and tranquility was achieved as for the first time in my life I’m sheltered from the evil universe with  supplies and experience, or how much was simple isolation.  It is nice that I’m rent and debt free, nice I’m as prepped as possible, but good Lord is it nice to have a huge buffer zone around me where most of the rest of humanity who has little interest in intruding.  I love how most people dismiss the desert, “mer, no trees, blech!”.  Thank you!  You and the other 99%, go hug your tree.

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The problem for me, and I’d image others, is that as prepared and nicely isolated as we are, Something Wicked Cometh.  The rest of the country has not been satisfied that we surrendered like a bunch of pussies.  They went from leaving us alone to actively pursuing us where we had retreated to.  They weren’t content with ruining the last civilized enclaves of colonized resource extraction areas by encouraging the internal rot from crack cocaine ( you know an organized official somebody is getting hookers and blow from the Chinese raw material importation racket ).

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They weren’t satisfied with knocking the 45-65 age group out of the work force.  Or eliminating almost all college positions.  Or making all new hires Diversity Only.  They had to destroy the last self-employment opportunity we had, and to send in Diversity Troops to take over the cities in our rural areas.  I would have added, “ramped up the cultural war against us”, but that ship left port fifty years ago.  Well, so did the urban takeover, but the current push for gun control was about shoving out the Deplorables who wanted to stay for the few jobs left.

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It was one thing to be economically persecuted.  That is nothing new.  That has been the lot of the non-elite for a very long time.  Yes, I’m grateful that we eliminated chattel slavery so as to spare the capital intense machinery.  I’d much rather be a wage slave.  The hours are better, and if the economy had done better just a little bit longer we would have seen bacon flavored everything.  I like that trend!  So what the meat is toxic.  It was BACON.  I accept that in exchange for the illusion of wealth sharing and freedom lite, I’ll be a happy slave. 

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Think about it.  In exchange for your cooperation you got 24/7 entertainment, a belly ALWAYS bloated from excess ( cheaply ) and although isolated and unsatisfied, in the main left undisturbed.  You THINK the alternative is true freedom, but that isn’t how the system works.  The system has NEVER been about freedom.  It has always been about those in control of the food allowing you to eat.  We lost that control as individual tribes at least seven or eight thousand years ago.  The Agricultural Revolution gave birth to elite controlled food production.  Libertarians will never be invited to that table.

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Gunpowder NEVER made all men equal.  Gunpowder production is an Industrial Age process, as are the armies that use it.  Industrial production is just as centralized as Agricultural production ever was.  Just because a peasant can grow their own food or their own gunpowder doesn’t mean they are outside the control system of the central government.  There are a few places more free, such as Afghanistan, and pre-petroleum the Appalachia’s, sort-of Switzerland, to an extent Mongolia, where there isn’t enough geology suitable for centralized farming.  But these are the exceptions to the rule, aren’t they?

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I’m not surprised that the surplus is running out that allowed the wage slaves to be so well bribed.  I’m not surprised that the AmComParty is eliminating one perk after another for the Deplorables.  That is to be expected as they eliminate our wealth.  But taking our jobs is one thing, and eliminating our replacement is quite another.  We moved into Internet Commerce, and it simply doesn’t pay all that much.  Yes, there are a few Stephen King’s and James Patterson’s of YouTube and Patreon, but that is the 1/10^th of a percent actual contemporary success there always is for rock stars.

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99.9% percent of the online alt-economy are the weekend Bar Mitzvah bands, just making van gas and food money.  Few are the bands putting out platinum records.  So, of course, the low hanging fruit are the high earners.  How long before the little guys making chump change are targeted?  And that is what I mean by Them coming after our new jobs.  Not to take them over like they did our gigs in the regular economy, to take over a “real” paycheck, but just to destroy them out of spite and hate.  This is how we are losing the economic war.

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I heartily applaud the strategy, as an outside observer.  You want to marginalize a potentially rebellious population, you take away their ability to participate in the regular economy.  As one of the targeted, I’m not too fond of this age old practice, of course.  It isn’t TOO bad, yet.  Right now, a glorious opportunity is still available to us, to guerrilla economics the situation.  Sure, YouTube stiffed a lot of us.  So, you move into another revenue stream.  Gillette just went full retard AmComParty on us.  Everyone is boycotting them.  Smell an opportunity?

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How about “The Deplorable Razor Company”?  It will take a smidge of start-up capital, but not an obscene amount.  Just buy bulk amounts of single edge safety razors and replacement blades on E-Bay and get the Internet to do most of your marketing.  I didn’t even think this up myself.  Black Rifle Coffee Company is a great model ( but you can’t just be successful with the name-you have to be new and original and spunky-entertaining, even.  THEN some folks will put their money where their politics are ).  And hey, if you do the razors, don’t forget your favorite author here.

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The point isn’t that we can shuck and jive and survive the economic assault.  We can, but that is no cause of celebration.  Because the undeniable fact is, we are still forced to constantly retreat, both physically and economically.  You can call it a Soviet Model Of Strategic Retreat, but all we have for a Scorched Earth tool is our boycotts.  And as great as that is, I don’t think it is working anymore.  Dick’s is still selling sporting goods.  Disney is still making movies.  And Procter & Gamble is still selling HBA.  Oh, and Patreon is still in business.

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I’ll continue tomorrow.  The macro aspect of the economic and territorial war against the Deplorables and how to react going forward.  Just beware, it might be a predicament rather than a problem.

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