Thursday, October 5, 2017

looking for doom


LOOKING FOR DOOM
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Are you looking for doom in all the wrong places?  Obviously, few of us care about the charge that we are wrong in looking for doom at all.  We fought that demon with spouse and family and friends long ago, and we either won and have prepped or we lost and are just fulfilling our doomer dreams by reading about it vicariously.  I imagine very few of you who haven’t paid the entry price of an expensive divorce are stocked up enough, or live in an acceptable location, but at least you can somewhat stockpile.  Mainly you just needed to stop caring about how other people thought of you. 

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I know, it’s hard as we are conditioned from birth to follow the acceptable tribal norms.  But hard isn’t an excuse that is going to keep you alive.  The main survivors of the coming die-off are going to be drawn from the pool of people who were able to display at least a modicum of social dysfunction.  Remember our talks about evolution?  Please don’t ignore that even if you are a creationist.  Because even if you are, evolution has one thing to teach you.  And that is, when conditions are suddenly changed abruptly, misfits and those with abnormal traits are the only ones who have the now needed survival peculiarities.

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An over-population, resource contraction die-off is going to be a relatively quick event.  One day there is enough global currency paradigm, central banker credit financed trade flow and energy availability and then after enough shocks to the system knock off a critical component, the next day the whole system fails to function and then, even with available resources, those resources can’t be utilized and the system fails.  Look at Puerto Rico.  The economy gets worse, slowly the companies defer maintenance and cut back positions and rot sets in, suddenly a hurricane hits and there is little hope reconstructing the grid there. 

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If you are busy with your Oil Age lifestyle, trying to fit in by avoiding cantankerousness or contrariness, please rationally evaluate your true odds of survival in a real catastrophic event.  Not pretty, is it?  So you cling desperately to denial and optimism.  Which means you prep for pussy problems and worry about Big Event Catastrophes that have few odds of happening.  Now, please note, I’m NOT trying to embarrass or mock anyone.  Not all of us share the same worries, and I understand that.  I can’t agree with it, because there is only one logical end to now, but I understand it.  All I am trying to do here is get you to challenge your assumptions.  If you think I’m mistaken, fine.  But hopefully I can introduce you to the dark side of paranoia. 

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Prepping for a hurricane is smart.  ONLY prepping for a hurricane is head in the sand denial.  In what universe does overpopulation fed by oil as oil runs out not end badly ( sorry, you can’t use fracking as a snake oil preventive )?  How is being in debt for two mortgages and three cars being prepared?  Sure, you get a mountain top concrete bunker out of one mortgage and a bug out vehicle from one car loan, but to make that work you need to ignore all other problems.  I mean, really, if you think you have thirty years, you can ONLY be prepping for really long odd events like Yellowstone, CME or asteroid impact.  Eventually, they do happen.  But eventually could be in a millennia.

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Let’s take North Korea.  Talk about a non-issue.  Did we go to war over Soviet Russia getting the bomb?  How about when Communist China did?  Hell, that was good for the military industrial economy.  If you apply the rhetoric of NoKo to those other countries, where is anything different?  Both were a “threat” to our hegemony.  Both could have easily been defeated by us, as long as we didn’t mind a few more clouds of death from fallout.  Not that there were any shortages of that at the time, our tests killing off our own citizens even as we feared non existent similar poisons from Russia. 

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Are we about to be nuked from Pakistan or Iran?  Supposedly, they are also Terror States ( terrorists, the false flag operators best friend ).  All DC has to do to stop the threat from NoKo is to do…nothing.  Just as it did before.  Let them have their defensive weapons.  Didn’t MAD run our foreign policy for decades?  I’m not saying a Geiger counter is a bad idea, just that if you focus on the improbable doom events at the expense of the probable, what good are you to yourself?  Why are you all worried about Gore Warming?  You should, up to the point of deciding where to relocate, but certainly not after that.

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Because Gore Warming might not even be a thing.  I really could give two craps that 99% of scientists agree on anthropological warming .  The same ones live in societies where 99% agree that women’s lib was a good idea, that a PC military can defend us and that central bank debt is a good thing.  What in the hell do they really know?  If you can fall for the later fairy tales, you can fall for the former.  If you can’t look at all things rationally, how can we trust your judgment on anything?  You can use Gore Warming as ONE aspect to consider, but certainly not all.

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I choose to live outside The South, even as I love the region.  Malaria and Chorea being reintroduced soon has little to do with it.  The far more reasonable threats are Carpetbaggers, an already overpopulated area and racial warfare.  Those are already threats, whereas climate change isn’t ( at least so far-I’m not outright rejecting Gore Warming, I’m placing it in Possible rather than Probable categories ).  Only preparing for minor emergencies, and ignoring the probable-economic collapse, famine-for the possible ( almost anything screeched about by the doomer porn people, if it requires AR’s and MRE’s, generators and Important Paper Copies ), is looking for problems you WISH for, because they are easier.  Bad move, bucko.

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11 comments:

  1. About the first half of the article : it is indeed extremely important to get rid of the way people view the world, develop one's own sense of observation and build up your own conclusions with it.

    I don't even have problems with the "a REAL survivalist is this and that" attitude. All I really want is to be left in piece (somewhat) and still somehow enjoy being alive while it lasts. I have no plans proving how badass I really am not, or building a new civlisation or whatever.

    Those whose aim in life is to become somebody, or prove badass, or build up a new civilization, are people that nobody is going to follow once things get serious. These are narcisstic personalities, they will prey on the feeble minded and the weak willed for some time, but it will lead nowhere.

    Me, I'm okay with the idea of having to eat a bullet if the situation commands it. Because I don't like the idea, I'll try to avoid getting there in the firt place, but what I do with my own life is nobody else's business. I believe I cannot truly survive without thinking that my life is my own business.

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  2. At my school we see enough used-up people (teachers, parents, sometimes teenagers) to see that present society is nefarious. It is destroying us.

    Wishing for its destruction is very logical. Anticipating that it will is also very logical. The thing is that people will shed a lot of the good stuff when getting rid of the bad. Those who have "winner" attitude or values might very well be despised and even killed in the new society.

    It is possible that the die-off will drive us crazy (George Clahoun's Mice Utopia comes to mind), but in the long term those who are somewhat functional will remain, and will not tolerate bullshit.

    Money, Hierarchy and Religion are typically bullshit elements that come only with an elaborate society.
    Several scenarios are possible. We can say that as long as we have to grow our food there will be masters and cities, but my bet would be much more like those tiny Maya settlements living in the jungle next to the huge ruins of the Maya cities.

    Your father might have been a super duper mathematician, but you yourself have to plow the earth to grow some corn, or your bloodline ceases to exist. You won't learn any math nor will your people ever again for thousand years. Same goes for the Rank Xerox employee of the year etc. : what we are in the world is not who we will be in the next one.

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    1. Right, I say I'm either going to learn On The Job training as a warrior, or die. I'm not being macho-I know odds are I'll die. It has nothing to do with who I am now. Just what I'll be forced to be.

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    2. I'm struggling through a book written by an ex-SAS cum-prepper for the citizen warrior. It's a tough slog. If I get anything from the book it's an appreciation of how tough it is in the infantry. I don't fancy my chances in the new world but to be fair I have zero interest in militia-esque retake dingoland fantasies. One thing I ask myself a lot when reading the doomer porn books is "where'd you get your food from bro?". "One second after" scared the beejeezus out of me. I raced out and bought wheat berries the very first chance I got. Since then my preps have gone away from Gats and whats the best Gat if I need to pop a cap in a maurauders ar53 from 100 meters on a moonlit night in febuary (didn't follow? best firearm / ammo combination for every single possible scenario)

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    3. Dingoland does sound better than Oz. Gotta try to remember it. One Second After was insanely motivational. It never worked on me as my preps were already squared away, but no one can forget losing the kid-it was masterfully written. Actual heart went into it. The rest of the book...meh.

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  3. “I really could give two craps that 99% of scientists agree on anthropological warming .  The same ones live in societies where 99% agree that women’s lib was a good idea, that a PC military can defend us and that central bank debt is a good thing.”


    This is why I will always be a follower of this site as long as it exists. No one else is willing to utter these politically incorrect truths, even the so called “right wingers” over at the faux news channel.

    I was listening to late night radio the other evening; coast to coast am to be specific. The first guest discussed the frailty of our power grid. The second guest was a former CIA Operative.

    The former, when questioned about the inevitable destruction of our civilization in a long term, grid down, situation, refused to believe that any mayhem could result, and that we could only beat the odds, because after all, “he had faith in his god and in his country”. The latter when questioned about the events surrounding 911, insisted that it all went down as specified by our betters. In both cases, I thought of this site, and how we’re spared the “pretty lies” here.

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    1. The Pretty Pony Prepper Pussy Lies. I should trade mark that. I wonder if the CIA guy just pushed papers. Certainly not an analyst. Remember Dan Ackroyd in Spies Like Us? God, he did those roles to perfection.

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  4. That was an excellent article you linked to. I'm not left wing, but I see where he's coming from. FWIW the LEFT and the RIGHT are speaking different languages

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    1. He's one I can usually stand to read. Mostly I think because he actually cares about regular folks instead of an agenda for controlling them.

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  5. I think freezing out in the North is more dangerous than sweating it out in the South. Too many months of snow cover and a requirement to store food for living in those conditions (neat built it refrigerator though). But to each their own.

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    1. Right, to each their own. To me, hot means crowds, way more disease, way more pests and poisonous stuff, all that plus the heat.

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