wishing for another Y2K

WISHING FOR ANOTHER Y2K

It frustrates me when I see the amount of people holding their dinguses, looking around in confusion and exclaiming, “What, Me Worry?”. And when I say “people” I do not mean the clueless mouth breathing oxygen wasting short bus riders that comprise the general population, but rather the supposed preppers out there who should know better. And when I say preppers, I don't mean the Hurricane Doomers who think a case of MRE's, a generator and an AR ( with, naturally, a FLIR scope because if you can't have an AR mounted with FLIR scope you will surely die a horrible and gruesome death seconds after the balloon goes up ) comprise your readiness supplies.

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Hell, I'm talking about serious preppers, as in survivalists. I use the terms interchangeably but in general one are Pretty Princess Pony Pretend Preppers and the others are getting ready for actual civilization collapse. A prepper thinks it is okay to bug in to a suburban home, a survivalist buries his rural retreat RV, buys ammo by the case only and stores grain by the industrial tote instead of the bucket. But I'm NOT talking about supplies. Yes, needed but no, not the true scorecard. The true mark is attitude, discipline and fortitude.

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It is unfair and unwise to judge people at your own level of preparedness. After all, I took ten years to get my complete arsenal and twenty to get enough ammunition ( to be fair, I did keep moving my target as events proved how bad things were getting-I was actually fully prepared for Y2K before it happened. I just hadn't realized yet there would be a prolonged economic collapse, Peak Oil and a civil war prior to grid down ), so who am I to judge others?

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However, I do judge by attitude and actions. Who cares if you are just starting? If you can make the willing sacrifices and dedicate yourself to a course of action, even a beginner working minimum wage is mere months away from being adequately prepared. No, it is those aware of the need dragging their feet and dicking around that sadden me. And frankly, piss me off. Here I am, doing my best to lead you in the search for frugal prepping, and you act like I'm a Yuppie Scum Survivalist Guru.

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No one is saying, buy 40 acres in the country and build a cement castle. No one is saying, buy a years worth of freeze dried food for ten grand. No one is saying, you need three AR-15's from a retired Sandbox vet that are custom and deliver one half MOA and cost two grand each. And yet, no one is acting as if time is very limited and the end is nigh ( if you ARE acting as such, you won't mind if I make that generalization. If you are guilty as charged, you resemble that generalization ). I really Honest Injun wish we WERE facing another Y2K.

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At least that one had a Pull By Date. You weren't given an excuse to dally. There was a time limit. Now, I say, hey, look at global Peak Oil in 2005. Look at all the chaos that followed. Now look at 2030 as the very latest date no more oil is pumped ( the Olduvai Theory HERE ). And...crickets. You all treat that on par with the seriousness attributed to far crazier theories such as Mayan Prophesies ( actually, I think more folks were worried about 2012 than any other date ), or pole flipping or the Hidden Planet striking Earth or Gore Warming.

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Well, okay, we MIGHT be warming. I'd give it a ten percent chance of being correct. But I'd wager a 90% odds on the government hiding the New Ice Age to forestall panic. Lord knows the government tells 99 lies and one Half truth, as a matter of policy. Just like with the weatherman, if you believe in the exact opposite of what the government tells you, you'll almost always be right. See, forecasting made simple. You are welcome. Anyone can do what I do, just without the nice hair. But it doesn't matter, warming or cooling. Crops will be effected either way.

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It seems that no matter what I say, everybody's Comfort Level is endangered. If I say, hey, no need to go live out on junk land, I realize the wife needs friends and a curling iron. Just move to a small town close to your junk land. You still get a job and a car and a family that hates you less. Winning, right? No, still excuses and timing the collapse very optimistically. I'm really not sure what the point of being a survivalist is, if you think the collapse happens after you die. Why would you view a house as an investment rather than rent, if it was endangered by the ghetto?

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I know everyone is different. I know some of you will die happy if you just take a few of the bastards with you. I know some of you have preps that make me look like the retard. I just can't see how so many stay calm and don't panic, otherwise. Am I the only one awed that we haven't already crashed? Is everyone else saying, “see, we didn't collapse, again”? I don't see lack of collapse as proof we won't do so in the future. I look at each miracle of non-collapse, see how much worse we are in the best of times today compared to yesterdays worst times, and wonder how we are all still alive.

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Look at the 1987 stock market 25% correction. Now look at the stock market today ( ignore the Plunge Protection Team and central bank derivatives manipulations. Pretend it is the same stock market ). How much worse are things today? How many folks seem to worry about that? Look at that time, and now, with a third higher population. Yet, we are still supposed to have such great food security? Hint: we are producing one third less wheat. 1980 oil EROI was 20:1. The same amount of oil today is half 10:1 and half 5:1, or roughly ONE THIRD. I'm not sure about you, but since I started worrying, I now have one third the strength and stamina to deal with things three times worse. Even my elementary math skills equates that to trouble.

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Am I the only one who sees an economic meltdown in 2000 ( corrected by pumping up a housing bubble ), followed by 2008 ( from that bubble, corrected by Infinity Inflation pumping $20 trillion with a “T” into the worlds central bank and tripling the derivatives market ), being a big flashing signal that 2019/2020 is Year Zero? That's, “when the economy reverts to nothing”. Let me put it this way. I'm not worried about my Social Security, seven and a half years away. I'm starting to wonder if I'll even have the opportunity to visit my parents in ten months. I'm now starting to think I should buy everyone silver jewelry for this Christmas, with a 50/50 expectation I'll be keeping it rather than having the opportunity to mail it off.

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I know, this isn't the first time I've panicked early to avoid the rush. Hopefully, it won't be my last. I don't actually expect anyone to panic with me, just because I started it. But I wonder how many of you really do share my feelings. Might it not be past time to do the really hard preps, like moving out of the bigger cities, or cashing in retirement funds before the banks Lehman? Might this be far less riskier than ever before?

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