early, disciplined, winning

EARLY, DISCIPLINED, WINNING

I was watching a Viking Preparedness video on Patreon ( because while Pastor Joe doesn't deliver a winner every day, when he nails it he is brilliant-and worth more than a buck a month ) which was titled something like “special forces selection process”, posted the beginning of July. In it he was talking about the mantra they were taught there, of “Don't Be Late, Don't Be Light, Don't Be Last”. He describes how that pertained to the course and how it carries over to life and even prepping. I re-titled it, so use whichever sticks in your head.

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The “Late” part was pretty simple. Late for formation, you washed out immediately. Only “Early” is On Time. The “Light” part was that you were showing up to formation with the requested amount of ruck weight ( under and you were cheating ). The “Last” part was, you keep showing up last and they dump you. Note that this wasn't even SF School, but just the weeks long process of being picked to go to school. His descriptions were fascinating- a much more involved process than I had imagined ( I guess I thought there was lots of sleepless nights during land nav and jumping from planes, to be picked ).

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This is easily transferred over to a Well Lived Life. Always early is a great job trait. Never cheating makes and keeps you friends. And striving to not be last in anything opens opportunities and makes good habits. It is also a good guide to prepping for and living after the apocalypse. I'm not sure I'll add anything not already covered in the video, but I was rather enamored with the information, and worse case I'm shilling for a master who deserves your support.

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Don't be late. Early is mandatory for the apocalypse, I hope we can all agree on that. There is no “on time” as you are either early or too late. As the old global thermonuclear war survivalists said, “better two years too early than two seconds too late”. Once the mushroom clouds were presenting a once in a lifetime photo opportunity, you were already hosed. Once the balloon went up, you only had minutes before detonation. You had to be early, and it wasn't an option. Sure, for dramatic purposes the entertainment vehicles portrayed last minute preps. Not realistic though.

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Then, once the Soviet Union REALLY screwed over the military industrial complex by having the ill grace to implode and leave us without an enemy ( it was too early to believe Our Benevolent Sino Overlords were yet a military or economic threat, as they never had more nukes than Bare Minimum Defensive ), a new and unimproved lot of “preppers” decided that Slow Survivalism was okay. As in, we have all the time in the world for a thirty year mortgage and incremental preparations. Bosh, I say, and Humbug. Poppycock AND bovine excrement! I won't point fingers, being the cultured gentleman.

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Worst. Idea. Ever. If you recall even your Hollywood History, neither Rome or the Mayans had to worry about nuclear war. Yet somehow their civilizations collapsed. And I maintain they collapsed rather quickly. In a long slow stairstep collapse, there is time and inclination to document events. Only in a much quicker collapse are no records left. It wasn't over in a millisecond, but it certainly didn't last generations. As an aside, look at how little recorded information our current collapse has generated.

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There is a lot of dead trees that copy the mainstream “news” organizations views that only peddle fear porn, selling an agenda. How many books representing new desertification yelled from the rooftops that the sky was falling, which never came to pass. Nostradamus, New World Order, the state of Israel fulfilling Biblical prophesy that Armageddon was nigh, an imminent Ice Age, then Gore Warming, now Ice Age again. But how many books have documented actual collapse as it has ALREADY happened? Not as “proof” of all the above scares but just as documentary to date? I'm at a loss to list any. Systemic analysis suffers from Specialist narrow viewed competition.

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So, why believe that the ancients were any better documenting their collapse? Weren't they just as invested in the status quo, just as blinded by hubris, just as confused by blinders? Could they just have been too busy surviving, as minions have speculated? I know this smacks on my own hubris, but couldn't their documentation have been as fragile as our own? I like to think hobbyists such as myself documented events, but the collapse destroyed all that.

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Just as the grid going down will destroy my works, so looting and pillaging saw all books used for ass wipe or starting fires. In a stairstep collapse, with each generation living their perceived normalcy, a whole civilization doesn't lose all records. That only happens when they are being utterly destroyed. Something like Rome destroying Carthage isn't civilization collapse, only one side losing a war. Other societies at the time recorded. No one recorded the demise of Rome. Nor did any records survive the following Dark Ages.

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Anyway, nuclear war might be far down the list of probables right now, and Yellowstone or an asteroid are still lower risks. Cyber-attacks are already reality now, with a few system outages and a LOT of “save your data for a bribe” attacks. So we probably don't even have to worry about an EMP. Whether that is an overnight collapse worry or not is debatable. But you don't prep early for all that, but more so because as soon as you lose your job-a proven daily risk-YOUR ability to prep is the same as an overnight collapse.

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And assuming you'll stay employed or find other employment is asinine. As far as prepping is concerned, early and done is the only smart strategy. You need to be ready, now, with all future activity a bonus rather than a necessity. Next up, we have Discipline. This is another obvious one. Without discipline you are a worthless Marshmallow Man. You are a fat, wheezing blob of girly-man ( for my very few female readers, I guess that makes you a fickle bitch ). It is another persons job to force discipline on to you so that you develop it yourself, from fear. But you can't wait for the apocalypse for that.

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That is where those having served in the military have an advantage. Discipline was already forced upon us, and we enjoyed the feeling of not getting screwed when we utilized it ourselves, hence making it a habit. Not to say you need the military for that, just that it got you in the habit early. You already experienced the trauma forcing the practice on you and got the benefits in plenty of time to help you. A messy divorce is a great way to start the discipline habit. Instead of slopping your dingus into any willing partner, you had to learn how to say “No” to the really expensive stuff.

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Discipline as it pertains to almost anything is easy. If you had to force yourself to do something unpleasant, you're exercising discipline. Are you disciplined as a prepper? No, squeezing out a budget for shopping doesn't REALLY count. Shopping is fun, like you are a girl piling up more shoes. Don't deny it. Every case of ammo staked on top of the pile sends an electric jolt of ecstasy through your nipples down to your sphincter. Hey, no judgment here. I've been known to sport wood after acquisition of another few hundred rounds of 303 British.

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But shopping is to too much to a degree entertainment or wallowing in decadence. Treating yourself. It was in itself enjoyable. You should be enjoying the overcoming of pain associated with forcing yourself to perform something unpleasant, not the task itself. Most of us only experience a tiny bit of pain changing some of the budget over to preps. Is that REALLY discipline? Running long enough to get a Joggers High is not so much a discipline as it is seeking a drug hit. Running enough for a good cardio workout, but never enough for the chemical high-that is discipline.

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Okay, enough for one day. We continue tomorrow.

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