urban cattle 2

URBAN CATTLE 2

I didn't mean to leave you scratching your head yesterday, trying to appear smarter than I am by throwing up a conundrum. It was just another way of saying, “confirmation bias”. We “creatively interpret” reality to fit into our world view. And really, I think this is natural. We can't be a steely eyed unthinking robot sentinel, always alert for danger. Nor can we ignore the day to day living reality of feeding and protecting family and tribe by filling our heads with mental masturbation trying to answer all of life's unanswerable questions. We rely on others in both cases.

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What good is society if it cannot protect you, both physically and by providing a solid worldview? I think that is the main reason I now detest both my government and half the people in this country benefiting from that government. The job of our government, ANY government, any nation, is to protect you and your family in exchange for your work and sacrifice. A half million dead veterans are tossing in their graves, their sacrifices made so that the ruling class can screw us through Political Correctness. It isn't about race or gender, but about tribe, and the government is no longer part of that.

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Anyway, by sacrificing for the tribe, the tribe protects you, a sum greater than its parts. By finding what works for the group, and turning that into a culture, a person is protected without needing to always figure things out for themselves. They just blindly follow group dictates, and then it does NOT matter if you are blinded by confirmation bias or any other mental illness that matter today only because we have no unified tribe or culture right now. The city is one kind of tribe, and all their very bizarre behavior is tribal, as is the Rurals.

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We aren't just asking urban dwellers to give up their tribe, to move to our perception of safety, we are assuming they COULD do so. What we see as dysfunctional behavior is normal for them ( and the other way around, obviously ). We point fingers at urbans and laugh uproariously, mocking all their behavior, but they aren't OF our tribe, are they? We think they are misinformed Americans, but they are a different tribe living in America. And those tribes self segregated. One has to wonder if preppers in the city even could move.

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A city prepper has more excuses than Carter has liver pills ( which, obviously, pretty much kept him alive forever ). Could the real reason be that he feels more comfortable in the city, in that culture? Instead, they make up excuses. Well, I do declare, that them thar fracking oil is set to last purt near forever, I tell you what! Or, family is here. Or, money. Please understand, I'm not judging. I'm not declaring my voice the only correct one. I'm saying, giving our propensity AWAY from logic, the collapse danger is NOT looked at in anything other than an emotional lens.

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As anyone who has read me for any amount of time knows, I am ALL about justifying my doom and gloom. I have a hundred and one reasons to panic, and I want you along for that entertaining ride. Now, how much of that is sound logical thinking, and how much of that is self justification, excusing past decisions? If I didn't think the collapse was eminent, I couldn't be excused for not living near family. If I wasn't preparing, if I didn't have an EMOTIONAL reason for prepping ( fear, which is rarely logical ), I couldn't excuse abusing former spouses.

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All that is just to underline that when I point out the illogical reason of city dwellers for staying, I also recognize my own illogical decisions. And, in my defense, most spouses gave as good as they got, so there is that. All I'm doing here is trying to understand, not place blame or mock others. I think a huge issue in a lot of preparedness plans is the inability to judge ones own blind spots. Not to blame ones self but to work around the issue. If you are city folk, you might just need to forget a hermitage in the middle of nowhere and move to a small town.

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When the Social Engineers had so much success pulling their levers to control people ( the Wizard Of Oz was NOT a child's book as much as it was social commentary ), taking away gold, guns and God, taking away Demon Rum, taking away free speech, taking away states control, banning isolationism, they obviously had good reason to suspect they would always be successful at it. They had stole most family farms, making a profit on it as a bonus, why not also kill the very family, shades of Stalinism.

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FDR might not have been Uber-Evil, just “quasi-evil” ( thank you, Dr. Evil, some of the funniest comedy since Animal House, THE gold standard, and sadly, about the funniest since ), but he had a lot of like minded evil dudes behind him helping a brother out. The death of the family farm was the first shot against the people, and next up was Social Security. I'm really surprised they never got into state run nurseries as the next step. Without a farm to run, after the necessity of the Great Depression requiring doubling and tripling up on living arrangements in the factory towns, the three generation household had little reason to endure.

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But now that grandpa was free to rot in his own mobile home in Florida, the giant engineering feat of draining the entire state of swamps and paving it over a giant retirement home manufactured from whole cloth ( look at a US map. NO other state has that kind of coastal mega-city urban zone build up. Not California, not Jersey, not Long Island ), that only left two generation homes. Which were under assault from Industrial Age economics anyway. Just to be sure, Bitches Lib cut the nuclear family off at its knees, eliminating traditional marriage and child rearing and any family unity.

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Now folks had to look at other groups for family. And tribe, since the government was clearly the enemy now ( except to those who made it theirs, in exchange for victim money bribery ). People quickly took advantage of the Supreme Court taking away representation from rurals at the voting booth, and even formed a tribal unity with their city, both as a reward mechanism and as a defense against the hatred and resentment against them from the disenfranchised rurals. To call Las Vegas a part of Nevada, for instance, is ludicrous. They are merely a wealth pump using the rest of the state, not of the state.

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I laugh at the Libertardians living in Las Vegas, authors who come to mind being Vin Suprynowicz ( Shotgun News columnist and 90's militia porn writer. Black Arrow being a brilliant contribution ) and J Neil Schulman ( Rainbow Cadenza-he just died, to no reports. I had no idea until just now ). They are living in the least free area of the state, a state which has a sordid history of coasting on prior achievements, one being that they were ONCE Libertarian ( a few RINO governors killed off that past ), and the area is blessed economically by rural rapine.

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Sorry, but yeah, don't get me started on ex-wives or most voters in cities. Let's just cut it off here and continue tomorrow.

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