road weary

ROAD WEARY

I was over reading Frank & Fern HERE and the comments section had folks expressing frustration and weariness over the never ending prepping and the always on Voice Of Doom, throwing away old food and etcetera. Just a general malaise over the constant grind. I cannot pretend to understand how they feel, as I am too busy, too focused on More Doom. But I think I can understand how they feel in general. I just have a different target, as do some of you. We are just tired of people who are an obstacle for prepping, and some preppers are just tired of prepping itself.

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But I think everyone is just wore down in general. Change is inherently bad for our species, and there is simply too much change everywhere. It gets discouraging. You have plenty of pieces of two by four lumber laying around, but it is still illegal to hit the idiots upside the head to knock some sense into them. You just want to yell into their faces, coating them with semi-toxic spittle, you are a jag-off! Stop trying to fix wasn't broken until you broke it, by trying to break it more! Humping idiots!

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I never get tired of stockpiling More, nor do I ever get tired of stockpiling Different. But I only maintain my sanity by writing, I suck at fiction, so I embrace prepping more because I love writing about it than I do just prepping. I'm a bit better insulated against burn out because of that. I don't look at thirty buckets of lard disposed of by burial and think, damn, what a waste. I look at all the shortening I replaced it with and say, hmm, there's an article I can write. Sure, the extra money hurts a little, but I have to get rid of it somehow anyway.

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Then, I look at how all the shortening I bought is now double to triple the price and I think, suckers! I TOLD you to stock up while it was on clearance. Something else to write about, AND I feel superior and I start doing a Eddie Murphy dance, “I got some shortening, you don't get none, your mama's on the welfare!” Much too busy to get tired of any of this. But I DO get weary and discouraged almost every day. And for probably the same reason the other folks did. Another day the apocalypse didn't happen, dammit!

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I don't mean it in the sense I want to get killed after eating way too much wheat and freezing in the dark. I just want it to get over with as I'm tired of the anticipation. I'm sure most other people are just tired of the extra work that might not be needed. But those folks don't like history. If they did, there would be absolutely no doubt in their minds that this sucker is going down. And that would get them through each hard day, each bucket of stale food they had to give to the chickens that weren't even laying because of the cold.

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I think there will be a special place in heaven for my father and the teachers in my little Podunk central California town when they pass. They all really instilled a love of history in me. Just for loving it themselves, and being excited about it and NEVER focusing just on dates and kings. I feel I was luckier than most, but then, Baby Jesus has had a plan for me all along. My first love was military history because, duh, guns and other manly objects.

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I didn't even know it at the time, but at six years old I was already studying the subject. My dad, who thankfully doesn't remember the incident, made me a wooden model gun for Halloween. But it was a Garand. Dammit! I threw a fit because it wasn't the NEW gun the military was using. I have no idea where I picked that up from. It could have only been the newspaper or evening news. But at that age, how did I know the difference? Of course, I had second thoughts on that once I had to use one. But just studying military history, once you are old enough to analyze it, you realize that is exactly how you DON'T want to fight. Even that helps planning.

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Of course, I quickly got into more than simple military history. I got interested in conspiracies and their history and had the good fortune of knowing Loompanics from their militant material, turning me on to Robert Anton Wilson. Which got me into more Hippie subjects. And, after discarding crap like UFO's, One World Illuminati, Jewish Overlords, and the like, more behind the scenes manipulations by the elite. History opens up so much more than its direct study would suggest.

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History is of itself beneficial to know, because nothing new is under the sun. Nothing. It was ALL done and thought of before. Now I read that not only Germany circa Hitler but Rome WAY back when, all had hippie movements. But just getting into studying history, you want to know more about everything from engineering to anthropology. It excites the mind. Is that why most folks ignore it? Their mind is numb at the end of the work day and they just want to turn it off?

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Was it just the bad teachers, like the ones that ruined math or sex education for you? I mean, they made drivers education dull as dishwater, and you are still driving, right? I kid. I'm sure it was terrible teachers. And being tired at the end of the day. And disliking social sciences in general. Not having time after sports. Hey, I KNOW people are weird because they aren't just like me. Their loss, not mine. But I can understand the general hatefulness toward the subject for all the reasons. I don't judge. Too much.

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As for the food rotation, that confuses me slightly. What are folks rotating? The only thing I keep that doesn't have a minimum of a decade shelf life is peanut butter. And because that no longer has a three to five year life after its stated expiration date like it used to ( now I don't trust it past about six months-they charged the formula somehow. And you can tell, just from its repulsive smell, that it isn't edible ), I only carry about two cases of it. That is just a BOB's worth and a taste fatigue item for the initial cupboard eating.

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I want to buy more food for longer eating after the apocalypse. Because farming won't be as easy as assumed ( weather, pests, brigands, pollution and denuded soil ). I don't want to buy more because I'm throwing out the old stuff. Taste is for Prepper Princess Pussies. Longevity and calories should be your primary considerations ( then nutrition. Taste is WAY down the list ). You can always take vitamins and eat wild greens. You need to focus on calories. What? You think you deserve it all, because you are a snowflake?

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You are one unit out of seven BILLION. By any metric except your own, you do not count. You are expendable. The odds do NOT favor you. Pick the lesser of evils, in this case more calories that last longer, before nutrients or taste. The whole point is to survive, not to thrive. Calories first. And more calories. Then, more calories. $25 will get you a year of Vitamin C and a multivitamin and wheat will get you sprouts for the micro- nutrients. You'll survive longer with inferior calories than with less calories.

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Tomorrow, let's discuss exactly how little you really need to survive. Just to make this whole endeavor less stressful.

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