Wednesday, May 8, 2019

YOYOF


YOYOF
Yes, another idea rip-off from Survival Prepping For Normal People.  His video was “yo-yo”, which is You’re On Your Own.  The question was, how much/for how long should I prep for?  His answer was, as long as you think you’ll be on your own.  My addendum to that is, forever.  SPFNP Dude is way too optimistic.  He has far too cheery and happy of an outlook on life.  Wallow in your happiness, you bastard!  No, seriously, I’m glad he has such a positive outlook.  Me, I don’t see it.  But that doesn’t make him wrong.  Yet, you don’t come here for glittery unicorns.
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I didn’t want to do this article just yet, having just completed a SPFNP inspired write-up, but I was unable to see anything else that was an adequate idea out there.  Everyone is so busy celebrating Crony Capitalism, wishing a horrible and elongated death on all Venezuelans for having the audacity to embrace populism or socialism over Yankee beneficiary corporate rapine, all I’m seeing is yet again more Socialism Bad memes.  I get it.  I’m not a socialist.  And perhaps it is just communism light.  But if an indigenous population wants that over being colonized, it isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
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For them.  For us, it just might be.  But forget the US being embarrassed by yet another demonstration it has become a limp dingus empire trying to convince itself how great it is.  How about focusing on how embarrassing it is that YOU believe it.  I just read something I absolutely loved.  I believe it was Mountain Guerrilla.  He was saying that on his Southern Mountain, most houses flew the Confederate flag.  And they all also flew the American flag.   Thus was the power and effectiveness of Reconstruction demonstrated.  Only Kool-Aid drinkers celebrate their oppression.
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Regardless of the benefits of empire, the costs have been many.  Foremost, the end of the Bill Of Rights and the subjugation of the individual and once sovereign states by the federal government ( occupied and poorly run by the east coast blue blood Puritans, a seriously unfunny bunch of uptight arseholes ).  I love America, yes, but I don’t love the government that took over the country by force.  It is hard to wave the flag and excuse the empire.  Just as Soviet citizens could love Mother Russia but by no means the communists holding her hostage.
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Granted, as I’ve said, if we hadn’t become imperialists we might have been occupied by a foreign power.  The age of Industrialism was no friend to decentralized power.  But there was also no need to continue on trying to colonize the world for the profit of the very few.  Perhaps it is MORE patriotic to be an isolationist and an anti-colonialist than it is to support world domination.  We need to tend to our own knitting.  Let the rest of the world take care of itself, which includes rotting it its own mess and us cutting off ALL immigration.
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I’ll just stop right there on that subject.  Getting back to YOYOF.  If all we ever had to worry about was nature disaster disruptions, a small generator with a few five gallon containers of gas ( just running the freezer about four hours a day, then wrapped up in insulation ), a propane grill with a burner attachment and several tanks of gas, a few water containers and a break open shotgun to keep the wandering ghetto residents honest would be all there was to this preparedness business.  We should be so damn lucky.  Instead, we have system failures.
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Systems in place for 150 years are failing.  It certainly is NOT because of socialism.  Global Capitalism is responsible for most of Europe’s woes right now, with Politically Correct Diversity Open Borders and the sickening Muzzy Lovefest.  Socialism has little to do with it.  Socialism is not behind Internet censorship and the death of the First Amendment.  That is all crony capitalism.  This is all just survival inspired panic and greed, dismissing any long term consequences as irrelevant to immediate need of continuance.  The Deep State is seeing its Propaganda Arm endangered by Internet Independents, and Das Ist Verboten! 
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Look, I know, you know and Ross Perot, bless his little pea-picken heart, knows, that the Chicken Little “sky is falling” has been done to death and it is wearying beyond comprehension.  Fear Porn alone is worthless, just an advertising orgasm to enrich the few best able to throw as many graphics on a web page as possible to dazzle the simple minds ( looking at you, The Economic Collapse Blog lawyer puke ).  You all want solutions instead of problems.  Well, the problems are really just dilemmas so you don’t get Hump All in the solution department.
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Except to retreat and stock your lifeboat.  That is the only partial solution.  The only reason for identifying all the Fear is to get a bigger fire lit under your ass to complete that ark before it starts raining.  We all know the floods are on the way.  That is a given.  To continue on with well-worn tropes,  the USS Titanic has already hit the iceberg.  We are just arguing about how fast the water is pouring in.  Talking about how bad it will get not only moves you faster, it colors the amount of preparations you need.
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Fifteen years later, how much of New Orleans is still wet moldy piles of rubble?  Coming up on twenty years now, how much of Afghanistan do we control?  Bueller, Bueller?  What my millions of words and years of writing come down to is that things are far worse than you think, and you are not adequately prepared to be on your own.  Certainly not forever.  Even those that are sufficiently frightened still have the mistaken notion that the guys in white hats will ride to your rescue.  Balderdash.  Not even your beloved tribe will save you, let alone a benevolent government.
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The Constitution won’t save you ( it did, however, nicely enslave you all these generations ).  The Free Market won’t save you ( let me know if you find one, please ).  White Nationalism won’t save you.  Empire isn’t going to save you.  Empire has already failed you ( immigration, jobs to China or robots, culture Politically Corrected ).  I’m going to continue tomorrow, and I need you to keep in mind that all this fear porn serves the purpose of describing the “forever” part in YOYOF.  I’m not convincing you you need to prep.  You know that.  You need to revise How Much.
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24 comments:

  1. An analysis. I prep for a 6 month minimum period of time for a full grid down scenario to a +12 months period of time. I would speculate that if there is no renewal of systems or upward improvements after a one year period then it may be time for "you" to be the migrant and get out afar away. It is way too rare to be full self sufficient hermitage, less than one percent rare.

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    1. How can the system improve or recover with an energy/resource contraction? That is why I say FOREVER. Entropy doesn't change course.

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    2. At a certain point , system collapse will stablize when population falls back to the point where resources become abundent once again. I'm a firm believer that mankind has been down this road many times.
      In ten thousand years the aquifers will refill, soil regenerate and oil will squeeze out of the Earth's pores till it too is discovered once again by our ancestors.
      Yeeah we are all YOYO's , life expectancy is variable of course. Game on

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    3. Correct. The "forever" is in relation to our own lifetimes. My concern/question then becomes, how quick before the NEXT die-off from over-exploitation? In other words, given a 99.999% die-off, are we stabilized or is there too little resources to breed even one more generation after the .001%. Will survivors place too many demands on the soil, even with so few numbers? It needs to regenerate ( yes, understood that can be helped along ). Will we be able to do so, or is it just a continuation of mining the soil? Not sure if I can faithfully analyze that, but I sure would like to try.

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    4. In places like Elko that normally cannot support humans without importation of almost everything...it will be a very rapid decline into mad Max. If you have a hidden hole with all provision's accessable yoyo for how long you gonna survive. For Elko I'd imagine at least two months below ground , sight unseen to fetch water or anything else.
      Meth heads gonna be at war with the yuppie scum within a week and the winners will be pillaging for the next month or two till nothing is left.
      First winter kills 80% at least without power. Some in that area with wood stoves buy a winter's worth ahead. Which is fine for themselves , but try hanging onto that wood supply when the neighborhood folks are freezing their asses off. Hard to hide a heated house. Plus all water sources freeze solid at times there.
      I recommend outfitting your remote lot with a bpod x multiples for a cistern and provision's.
      Otherwise a couple months food water and bullets oughta be enuff till the hordes mows ya down lol...

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    5. Yeah, if I don't go out to the 15 miles away lot, I know I'm hosed. Burying food and shelter and water tank-it isn't impossible yet I wonder if I can even do it. I know I've just been a poser. Up until recently I hadn't done much more than economic collapse preps. The question is if I can go beyond that, realistically. Not "best case scenario". It is all well and good to be fatalistic about my death, but that doesn't mean I can avoid doing the hard work postponing it. I can do the minimum, caching sites. Need to start doing instead of worrying.

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    6. Best case scenario for you and Elko would be the mines all shut down and everyone but old fart retirees leave the area.

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    7. Reading SRS Rocco leaves me warm and fuzzy as this might be exactly the case. And I keep looking fondly at my trip here to Nevada. Driving through old mining areas in New Mexico, barely a half dozen shops line business districts highway roads, and that seemed to be on the better towns. Like someone rolled up the sidewalks. I know I'm not just blowing smoke up my own ass, Elko has boomed and busted multiple times. And since we all know Baby Jesus holds a special place in his heart for me, I'm optimistic. Hell, it's just Yuppie Scum and Mexicans that live here-won't hurt my feeling when they are all screwed to my benefit. Nothing personal, now get the hell out!

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    8. That's the problem. You find an acceptable area to live in. Sure, you made a lot of compromises but it's acceptable. Then more people move to the area. Before you know it the "it's hot and there's a host of other things against here but you know what? There's not many people to annoy me" justification disappears.

      I bet I could move to the middle of the desert in Antarctica and make myself an igloo and before I know it, drongo's move in next door :-(

      Long story short. My area's filling up with drongo's. Sheesh.

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    9. Yet another reason to hate people, as if the list wasn't long enough. Sad Panda :(

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  2. Back in the late 1970's while in one of the Sears stores in Dallas I saw Ross Perot buying some roebuck jeans. He was already VERY wealthy and quite well known buy then but he was there just doing some shopping with no one with him and just buying some jeans. I was tempted to go up to him and say hello but thought that he deserved to be left alone so I did. I was amazed that he had no bodyguard or other security with him.

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    1. And the lack of bodyguards hurt him in the end, didn't it? That was how the North Koreans were able to kidnap his daughter and force him to withdraw from the election.

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  3. “and I need you to keep in mind that all this fear porn serves the purpose of describing the “forever” part in YOYOF”


    Glad you clarified that. I’ll admit that initially, I thought that the F stood for something much different :D

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  4. It seems like it always comes back to the need to learn primitive bushcraft skills. Obviously you would start off being being prepped, but long term, it would be impossible for most people to stock everything that they would need over the course of a lifetime (Unless they were very wealthy, or older to start). I read a book some years back that dealt with such skills in detail. It was pretty complete, from tanning hides for clothing, to making primitive bows and arrows.

    Yes, I get that it’s not that easy. But you would certainly be ahead of the curve if you could acquire such skills, and eventually, society will have to rely on these very skills again at some point.

    https://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Survival-Skills-Larry-Olsen/dp/1556523238

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    1. The problem is going to be that those using salvaged items have the tech and military advantage. Stone Age skills are only good out in the middle of the boonies, on ground that holds little strategic value. If the location brings you in contact with others, you are like a bunch of Bush Bitches against Maxin machineguns ( figuratively speaking ).

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    2. I was talking long term. Just like you would start off well prepped, with modern equipment, and firearms, but over time, you would be using that flintlock or low tech bow, that I’m always banging on about. And then eventually, you will be down using entirely primitive weapons or gear. Unless of course, you are suggesting that we will not suffer a total and complete collapse, sending us back to the stone age. But I’ve always gotten the impression that you do believe that it will come down to that at some point.

      Certain items are things that should be heavily stocked, such as medicines, fire or shelter making items, clothing, or spools of Dacron. I’ve never tried to make a primitive bow string from vegetable fiber, or sinew, but it sounds like it would be a real bitch to do so.

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    3. Making your own bow strings and such WILL be a pain in the ass. But look at it this way. That counts towards your weekly hours worked ( when they claim hunter/gatherers worked about twenty hours a week ). In some ways repetitive tasks will be welcomed to fill in the time. Yeah, I have no doubts it is massive die-off, Dark Ages with salvage and then back to Stone Age, once the salvage metal is gone ( as there are no more surface metal salvageable by hand labor-not enough to matter to rebuild Ag Empires ). Sorry, I was understanding you were thinking to go Stone Age right away. If you cached wheat as insurance against hunting failure, and had a single shot rimfire as a back-up to your bow, in a desolate area you COULD go Stone Age immediately. Its those other damn people that concern me.

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  5. As usual, spot on.

    But in the end, nothing will save you. It's what you do with your minutes between now and then that counts.

    I'm thinking Hawaiian shirts and margaritas?

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    1. Hawaiian shirts, black socks and sandals. On the golf course.

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  6. Lights Out, Sacramento!

    I left Eugene Oregon on Monday.
    I'm in the Sacramento California area to face-to-face with distant family to evaluate them for evacuating to the farm.

    Nothing I say over the telephone seems to convince them YABEL == You Are Behind Enemy Lines.

    Monday in Eugene, I paid us$2.59.99 a gallon for fuel.
    In Sacramento, fuel is us$4.35.99 a gallon.

    At the GoldenCorral buffet in Boise Idaho and Vancouver Washington (the state), lunch is us$8.76.

    The same meal at the Sacramento GoldenCorral is us$10.25. The difference is taxes plus A Living Minimum Wage™.

    Cellular service is Armageddon bad. I daren't start a telephone call because it would be immediately dropped. I get the impression AT&T and Sprint and the gang quit maintaining the cellular towers. Good money after bad, that kind of thing.

    On the plus side, the speed limit was raised to 65mph in most areas, with occasional bursts to a legal 70. 'Legal 70' is a different number from 'California 70'.

    An Oregon us$60 hotel room including breakfast is us$135 in Sacramento.

    And their notorious interconnected series of potholes they call 'roads' are bouncier than usual.

    The other plus side? The sidewalk hookers are expanding their clientele to include hollering companionship offers to geezer farmers from far-away lands. Or, at least, that's their claim. Would they willingly follow-through for the paltry shekels I could spare? That's a story for another day.

    The downside? Sacramento county sheriff's deputies travel in packs of two or three. California highway patrol travel in two-packs. Every stop I see requires at least three vehicles containing government agents.

    Until I bail Thursday afternoon, my fuel tank is topped-off anytime I drive more than fifteen minutes.

    The state capitol of California, Sacramento is an example of cancers devouring their host.

    I know I could present a rosy picture of The Golden State™ and its residents as the successful refugees from The Dust Bowl™ disaster of The Great Depression™, but you deserve The Truth™.

    Show of hands... how many of us are behind enemy lines?

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    1. I had no idea the LEO were doubled up-especially Troopers which I've never seen. My daughter was getting desperate to put her $60k sociology degree to work and thought about the Sac PD. I think she said they started out around $50k a year salary. Or perhaps it was even more. Crazy Town. Well, perhaps the levees will break after a good rain.

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    2. the salary for police in California is higher than that. Santa Maria, near where the great Bison grew up starts the officers at $72,000 a year. Santa Barbra start at $78,000 plus extra for specialty stuff. San Francisco starts at over $80,000.

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    3. Okay, I was first thinking $70k, then second guessed myself ( "no way! Much too high" ). I guess I shouldn't have.

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