tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post6063433325259302721..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: black apache 1 of 4James M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-6493202769186325442015-12-09T16:38:18.049-08:002015-12-09T16:38:18.049-08:00Just look at the still functioning book industry. ...Just look at the still functioning book industry. Fluffy light weight paper going for more than the old heavy paper volumes. Of course, the book industry consolidated ton the point of no profit, but I still think you can see paper already becoming dear ( look at TP doubling in price ).James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-65217586697314272922015-12-09T11:42:24.289-08:002015-12-09T11:42:24.289-08:00Yes the dark ages had a serious decline in trade, ...Yes the dark ages had a serious decline in trade, though it is hard to say which was cause and which was effect - political and military collapse vs. economic and trade.<br />Here is an article that illustrates my point about trade/industrialization failure hurting the poor:<br />http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2015/12/surviving-poverty-part-2-staying-warm-on-the-streets-2595566.html<br />Every single bit of their advice is for the homeless where plastic and paper is in such vast supply that the homeless can get it for free as trash. But as energy and other resources contract paper and plastic are going to be reused and recycled and made more expensive to the point it is no longer treated like trash. Then what are the poor supposed to use? I guarantee the poor of today will look like the middle class of the future. How long before the trash of today is looked upon with envy is the only question - I bet it is a shorter time than most of us expect.JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-85531147218317206242015-12-09T05:26:13.856-08:002015-12-09T05:26:13.856-08:00The devil is indeed in the details, so of course w...The devil is indeed in the details, so of course we try anyway.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-16553981989163406862015-12-09T05:24:26.629-08:002015-12-09T05:24:26.629-08:00Yankee- sorry, your comment was deleted for droppi...Yankee- sorry, your comment was deleted for dropping The N Bomb. Sure, comments are not as free and colorful as before, but I can't waste all of my time running down and deleting offensive comments months after they were made, under threat of site cancelation. And I can't waste all my time playing around trying to manage non-point and click hosting sites. If I posted daily at my web site I'd need to pay more as traffic increased and I don't get paid enough to have overhead. Besides, I'm a writer, not a programmer or editor. We all had fun with free ranging comments, but I had to pay the price.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-72703720236555576462015-12-08T17:32:53.362-08:002015-12-08T17:32:53.362-08:00While no one can speculate what a collapsed future...While no one can speculate what a collapsed future will look like in detail we have a general idea that it will be overall. Knowledge will survive even if its books found in a pit of a deranged hermit in the Nevada. We will never have luxuries as we have today but we will have trade and low cost technology alternatives' to what we have today. Collapse will be followed by die off which will change the number of rich and poor but it will not change the percentage's much. We should all remember the difference between a slow collapse and sudden event is huge. In a sudden event we all become animals its a survival trait.Gary in Bamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00095999376990912465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-60378304246738921922015-12-08T16:01:01.391-08:002015-12-08T16:01:01.391-08:00Wasn't the Dark Ages primarily due to lack of ...Wasn't the Dark Ages primarily due to lack of trade? Fantasies of Sunday Go To Town Barter might be misplaced. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-75118708297688163112015-12-08T14:58:50.441-08:002015-12-08T14:58:50.441-08:00BTW - because this is a global civilization and at...BTW - because this is a global civilization and at the highest ever apex of technology (energy use) this time is different than any other collapse. <br />most of our historical collapses had outside entities/empires to trade with to some small extent to make up the lack of the little essentials (think sewing needles and salt). This time there might not be an outside entity intact enough to trade with. trade might not just whither but actually die out completely for an extended (generational) time when it finally fails. <br />Which means that there wont even be castoffs like the poor blacks, Indians, and others who lived outside the empires of old still get today (Nike T-shirts on the refugees of the Sudan, etc....)JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-50777005435263326672015-12-08T12:50:25.416-08:002015-12-08T12:50:25.416-08:00Excellent!
Psychology, I love this shit. Bring it...Excellent!<br /><br />Psychology, I love this shit. Bring it!ghostsniperhttp://www.deadcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-89451649033579016452015-12-08T09:12:46.614-08:002015-12-08T09:12:46.614-08:00Find a homeless person - now picture their lives w...Find a homeless person - now picture their lives without soup kitchens, shelters, or donated clothes. That is the best option for urban dwellers.<br />Find a subsistence farmer - now picture their lives without any outside support at all; no fuel, no electric, no water purifiers, no tp, no food stamps for the drought years, etc. That is the best option for rural inhabitants.<br />JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.com