tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post897637384150859722..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: slow, fast, instantJames M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-27354999428890156462019-11-27T11:41:17.713-08:002019-11-27T11:41:17.713-08:00From my reading I was under the impression that th...From my reading I was under the impression that the Emancipation only formally ended the practice, but it drug on for some time. However, that would be the same as me saying American slavery actually continued until Jim Crow laws were abolished, so I concede the point. Now, why is it Confirmation Bias to locate the initial policy that changed the law/culture? We could point to NYC in the 1890's, or the gun control in the 1920's ( or was it the 30's? Little matter ) or the Gun Control Act of 68 as the death of the Second Amendment ( or, even, Western cowtowns prohibiting firearms ). Why is that wrong, from a historian point of view?James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-24841906901752886302019-11-27T10:32:06.351-08:002019-11-27T10:32:06.351-08:00I did see Woodpile Rpt. It's easy to make thos...I did see Woodpile Rpt. It's easy to make those claims decades afterwards. It's called confirmation bias.<br />His '65 comment was just silly. Hell, I could say "America" not European since that wayward Dutch ship dropped off slaves in 1619.<br /><br />But my initial response to you was not calendar issue but rather an economic/political rejoinder. <br />Destabilizing events overturn social structures. Plague 650 Y/O and now computer tech. Maybe your vision of Hubert's Peak Oil will be another.<br /><br />Russian serfdom formally ended in 1871. <br />It was an all at once kinda of thing. Really no footdragging on that.<br /><br />HOWEVER restriction of Jews to "Settlement of Pale" had a start-stop action. Some areas held Jews to restrictions longer than other areas. I personally think the on again/off again nature of lifting restrictions of Jews led to their very outsized role in late 19th C Anarchism and Bolshevik activities. They had an axe to grind against czars (and boy did they ever go to chopping!)<br /><br /><br />FROM WIKI:"The 1861 Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the domestic (household) serfs. By this edict more than 23 million people received their liberty"<br /><br />https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861Anon()()noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-27215550254814963502019-11-27T09:37:00.753-08:002019-11-27T09:37:00.753-08:00Damn, my teaching was that decent? Never read all...Damn, my teaching was that decent? Never read all the above. I avoid philosophy as if it were the plague, and rightly or not identified the above as such. Even Nietzsche, I only read some biography ( need to finish that one. Left at the B-POD, need to remember to grab it. Five years of dust might be hiding it ) James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-5752461029265642442019-11-27T08:43:02.159-08:002019-11-27T08:43:02.159-08:00I read that book Walden. It was pretty good, but h...I read that book Walden. It was pretty good, but he drones on a good deal, philosophizing about a bunch of nonsense, that had nothing to do with building the damn cabin, which was the only reason I got the book in the first place. I wouldn’t describe Thoreau as a survivalist, but rather a minimalist. At one point in the book, he actually pondered using a railroad workers tool box as a basic shelter (It was described as looking like a large wooden casket). <br /><br />Thoreau kinda strikes me as a poser. Kind of like one of these modern, global warming religious fanatics, that flies a 747 to the latest global warming summit. While not mentioned in the book, he spent a lot of time in town, taking supper with such notables as Louisa May Alcott (Little bitches author. Okay, so I modified the title a little on that one :D ) and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In fact, it was Emerson’s property that he was squatting on. It was rumored that Emerson was a turd burglar. Now that I think about it, it was also rumored that Thoreau was a turd burglar. Perhaps they were “turd burglaring” each other? :D <br /><br />All in all, a good book though. He gives the breakdown of the costs, and he does it on the cheap, much the way that you might go about building a cheap house yourself. As I recall, he purchased an existing shed from someone cheaply, and tore it down and hauled it to the site, and more or less built another one with the materials.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-74114044782855359122019-11-27T07:23:30.900-08:002019-11-27T07:23:30.900-08:00When I was in college reading Hobbes, Locke, and R...When I was in college reading Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, the Internet was not in existence, so when I came across "the state of nature," I could only think of primitive cave men, and professors did not stop to paint a picture of it. Using today's teaching methods, a good high school teacher would have students read this blog, "hookers and blow" and all else. Then role play life without energy, food, water, and law. Then teach about the founding of government, etc. <br /><br />Jim's writing has made me understand what Hobbes was talking about. <br /><br />There's my two cents. Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04141804481453083170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-22599339625418283022019-11-27T07:20:37.608-08:002019-11-27T07:20:37.608-08:00Thanks, checking it out nowThanks, checking it out nowJames M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-47012043265437050252019-11-27T07:17:41.353-08:002019-11-27T07:17:41.353-08:00I don't think Trump on his best day can hold b...I don't think Trump on his best day can hold back Big Spicy, not even for one more year. How quick do we lose 1/3 of our oil supply? It could go, quick. Not that I haven't been really wrong on timing, before. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-75000692164799531252019-11-27T07:14:54.989-08:002019-11-27T07:14:54.989-08:00Most excellent boots on the ground first hand expe...Most excellent boots on the ground first hand experience. Thank you. Minions, take note, read twice.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-43472636456203689062019-11-27T07:11:18.563-08:002019-11-27T07:11:18.563-08:00I think that is a reach, because by that definitio...I think that is a reach, because by that definition you could go back to the Romans and the formation of religious orders ( think, monks-I'm not sure what order it was off hand ) that called for groups to flee and be self sufficient in monasteries, to survive the chaos and decline. For all we know, there were similar movements of Black Plague or AmerIndian Smallpox die-off that proposed fleeing to the wilderness. To me, survivalism is a philosophy of prepparing for the end of civilization, and communicating with others to do the same on their own. And I think you almost need to make that end global, or it just becomes a question of travelling out of the danger zone-which is a very different preparation. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-2732183580171876412019-11-27T07:04:02.533-08:002019-11-27T07:04:02.533-08:00I think I saw that too, on the bathroom wall :)I think I saw that too, on the bathroom wall :)James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-46329065231433688302019-11-27T07:02:02.128-08:002019-11-27T07:02:02.128-08:00Did you see the link in yesterday's Woodpile R...Did you see the link in yesterday's Woodpile Report to the article quoting the one guy? I think it said, "America has not been a Constitution since 1865, a Republic since 1913, or been European since 1965" ( I might have butchered it a bit ). All that did was trace the beginning of each modern condition to its birth. My comment was similar, about the end of serfdom. It didn't happen instantly. Hell, the plague latest for some time. It was the beginning of the end, as the nobles lost money and control slowly at first, which then ballooned. You could say, "we had serfs until 1917, in Russia", but that was an outlier and you could make a point it ended far before that ( just as, technically, slavery ended with Brazil a few decades after the American Civil War, but if you call serfs slaves, then you are off by two decades more ). James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-45341816246178996152019-11-27T06:53:41.793-08:002019-11-27T06:53:41.793-08:00You know how Bill Gates hates us all ( bullying ep...You know how Bill Gates hates us all ( bullying episodes from youth? ) and wants us dead and makes Windows a living Hell? I 'm typing the comment, hit an unknown key, and then I get all that blank space. I don't think it happened in the last 14 years, with all the comments answered.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-1538580515301120842019-11-27T06:49:35.899-08:002019-11-27T06:49:35.899-08:00Darwin at work, againDarwin at work, againJames M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-48605156850368896872019-11-27T05:16:43.144-08:002019-11-27T05:16:43.144-08:00I agree with jl. Bison's writing is the best o...I agree with jl. Bison's writing is the best out there about the future and how to prepare for it.<br /><br />Most people are scared off by the brutal truth about collapse. People reading this blog have a higher chance of survival than any others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-56560551159942227302019-11-27T04:49:44.410-08:002019-11-27T04:49:44.410-08:00Nicus,
Besides potatoes what roots and tubers did...Nicus,<br /><br />Besides potatoes what roots and tubers did you plant for foraging later?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-27494551182898732812019-11-27T00:35:38.219-08:002019-11-27T00:35:38.219-08:00Thanks, bookmarked for reading later when I'm ...Thanks, bookmarked for reading later when I'm not earning an honest living. ;) Something strange happened below that in this site, I see a foot-long empty gray window.daniel_dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18399665251275194585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-66302131560637017532019-11-26T22:31:22.526-08:002019-11-26T22:31:22.526-08:00The lack of serfs in post plague Europe did NOT le...The lack of serfs in post plague Europe did NOT lead to downfall of feudal aristocracy or pose threat to Papacy...<br />After plague the remaining serfs became more VALUABLE. You know that thing we call equilibrium between supply and demand.<br /><br />Post plague people were able to wrest concessions from feudal aristocracy. Land tenure, rents, service requirements etc. These things freed people from onerous economic and social restrictions. <br />Only those feudal aristo types who were too stupid or hidebound were unable to adjust to new reality.<br />Agriculture, at least in England, began to include far more pastoral activities (marginal land reverted to pasturage). Tending sheep exploded in later 15th C. Sheep equals wool, wool means clothe, excess clothe means export which means trade and primitive currency arbitrage. Expanded trade and wool productio lead to importation of Flemish weavers. <br /><br />Read Barbara Tuchman's classic "A Distant Mirror". It is THE source of all things 14th-15th centuryAnon()()noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-67738120664811905062019-11-26T22:20:27.136-08:002019-11-26T22:20:27.136-08:00Mike - I think your forecast is sound and it does ...Mike - I think your forecast is sound and it does not bode well for white Americans because there is no less united group on the planet this side of the Iks or maybe the more psychotic members of ISIS. <br /><br />alex carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458022111793552536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-79907484580037903212019-11-26T22:16:35.820-08:002019-11-26T22:16:35.820-08:00Someone, on Reddit or a bathroom wall or somewhere...Someone, on Reddit or a bathroom wall or somewhere, wrote that for the bottom 90%, the economy has been in Depression mode, shrinking, for the past 50 years. That makes sense as things probably really started going to shit when I was 8, although I was 11 just turning 12 when we got foreclosed out of our house for the first time. <br /><br />So yeah, listen to those old Great Depression writers. alex carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458022111793552536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-17340891284655980082019-11-26T22:14:25.983-08:002019-11-26T22:14:25.983-08:00I believe survivalism goes back to Thoreau, and ce...I believe survivalism goes back to Thoreau, and certainly to the 1930s Depression, where there were a lot of people starving and a back to the land (and away from money!!) movement. <br /><br />"<br />Some things, of course, have changed since 1940 when M. G. Kains revised Five Acres and Independence. But the basic down-to-earth advice of one of the most prominent men in American agriculture and the methods of farming the small-scale, pre-DDT farm are still essentially the same." - from an Amazon review. Note the book was *revised* in 1940, making it certain it was one of the 1930s books. alex carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458022111793552536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-7803182798092968312019-11-26T21:59:53.747-08:002019-11-26T21:59:53.747-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Demented guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17071191996716087797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-52119281882748597312019-11-26T19:26:51.179-08:002019-11-26T19:26:51.179-08:00A good reply, Nicus. I think of a house as a secu...A good reply, Nicus. I think of a house as a secured loan since the house is the collateral. He is thinking of buying PM's, like I am, because "squirreling away" money in cash accounts and equites are sitting ducks for seizure in crunch time, right? Supposedly the loan officer is thinking similarly about a total collapse and he told him that there would not be enough enforcers to collect, or wouldn't target the smaller debtors right away. It's better to pay it off as soon as possible before spicy times. If Trump gets reelected, we all have an extra four years, possibly. Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04141804481453083170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-55131682473406832262019-11-26T19:09:20.849-08:002019-11-26T19:09:20.849-08:00The 1929 to WWII depression got worse for 4 years ...The 1929 to WWII depression got worse for 4 years to the bottom in 1933. Lots of suicides in 32-33, and starvation deaths called pneumonia. Being hounded by creditors makes working difficult, as employers hate dealing with calls and garnishments. Employers also know that you will have to quit, because you can't live on a $5 check every two weeks, if you don't get decent tips that allow you to live. <br /><br />Pdxr13Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-71221382574761544082019-11-26T19:00:56.855-08:002019-11-26T19:00:56.855-08:00Survey of doom writers
https://keithhuddleston.blo...Survey of doom writers<br />https://keithhuddleston.blogspot.com/2017/02/how-to-go-to-work-when-collapse-in-near.html<br /><br />Pdxr13Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-44967229868819224812019-11-26T18:09:17.438-08:002019-11-26T18:09:17.438-08:00Great minds think alike. The article I wrote this...Great minds think alike. The article I wrote this morning mirrored your thoughts on the need for storage food for when hunting and gathering failed. Agriculture IS food security ( as long as one always has seven lean years stored, rather than the king selling the surplus for hookers and blow ), but it is also the cost of that security that is so bad. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.com