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NOVEMBER ARTICLE

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PEAK OIL AND THE 100^th MERIDIAN

The infamous 100^th meridian is where life ends in an agricultural economy, the rain too poor to the west to rely on year in and year out. The line is easy to see, as the Texas border shoots up directly on that line west of Amarillo, going up to hit the panhandle of Oklahoma. That is not to say you are safe right up to that line. San Antonio is east of the 100^th and is no lush paradise. The line is more a Point Of No Return. The War Of Northern Aggression points of contention ( when the South tried

to move north from east Texas ) were more on the eastern borders of Kansas, more around the 96^th meridian.

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Life is precarious for farmers up to the 100^th, and impossible long term past it to the west. Primitive farmers, obviously. As if watermelon should have ever been grown in Arizona. With irrigation, the earth can support even seven billion, although the plight of those extra mouths now makes obvious the lies of an even greater population in any future not written by science fiction copy writers selling a utopia of some sort. They actually had those in the 1920's, selling Los Angeles real estate. Of course, back then L.A. had oodles of oil and far less population, and it still turned out badly. I fail to see any reason to support any optimism for moving there now.

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Or thinking that irrigation has a profitable future in most places in the US. A 300 foot well that needs to be sunk further is NOT testimony to mans technological progress, but rather an exercise in delusion. Living west of the 100^th will soon be far more of an apparent issue than most believe now ( don't worry, Rawlesian converts, as long as you are getting Rocky Mountain snow melt you should be okay. The less-Yuppie of you settling on the margins of that cults area? Where you need irrigation? Hosed ).

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Now, we've talked of West Versus East as a prepper, previously. I don't view the West as a great solution, because the vast majority of land is empty because there are only a few water sources and the population clusters there. I'm here because these are my people, culturally ( THE most important consideration at the end of the day ), I love the desert-the cold ones, where fewer live- and because I think herding is as viable as farming as a strategy and perhaps even superior. And to me, lack of water is a strategic advantage. But I'm not a farmer, am I?

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The East is NOT as bad as made out, from those with their own agenda, and while not an easy row to hoe, at the end of the day if you cannot count on the rain, you will NEVER be a successful farmer, without oil inputs. I would avoid the Washington DC to Boston ( or even just NYC-do a little population density research ) Death Corridor, but other than that most of the East is far less of a non-starter for the apocalypse than popular literature suggests. Yes, there are issues. There are issues EVERYWHERE. No one spot on this entire globe is free of survivalist issues.

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Canada would be great for someone who thrives in the cold, from a meat animal and isolation standpoint. It is also full of rabid socialists who never met a gun ban or tax hike or immigrant group they didn't want to snuggle up to and French kiss ( sorry, northern neighbor dudes-no offense. Hell, some US states are far worse than you, and it isn't your fault God only acknowledges our natural rights in America. Well, half of there, anyway ). Alaska might have been great at one time, for the same reasons as Canada, but is mostly over populated ( so is Nevada, but our cold is a bit more reasonable ), probably because of that oil tax profit share. That is now endangered, but the useless eaters are already living there.

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I could list every country in the world and tell you why you are an idiot for living there. Face facts, there are no more good prepper places left. We must ALL compromise. But enough of that. It is time to start looking at East v West w/Peak Oil in mind. I know, it is forbidden that I talk of Peak Oil. Peak Oil gets as much enthusiasm here as my fiction writing does ( no word back yet on last issues attempt ), mostly because despite my hair some of you have yet to grasp my true magnificence and if you accept Peak Oil in its entirety and its immediacy you would freak out, do the Funky Chicken and crap an internal organ.

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Well, we certainly cannot have THAT, now can we? Mercy sake alive. So, I sneak Peak Oil into other subjects and I'm no longer subject to 50% subscription renewal rate failures. In theory. Right now, I can hear your eager anticipation, will Jim tell me I'm a stud for living in the East? Will I be vindicated? The short answer is of course, yes, which was kinda sorta the same answer as before, just more so. Living in the West is fine, don't get me wrong. It is fine for a VERY select few survivalists. It most certainly is NOT the answer for the bulk of people.

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Water is not THE only answer, because as history has shown, there is always a group of people who can live without farming. But we also know people can live in the Arctic, and that is NOT the answer for anyone else. The only way to live in the desert is as a nomad herder, and it is only feasible otherwise if you have a river carrying regenerative silt in the middle of that desert. If you need ANY other input from afar, you have no business farming. Period.

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And this is where the West become problematic. It isn't just the water, because drip irrigation and other tricks, but the lack of water ( and to whatever degree the soil long term ) making for a lack of outside inputs. The soil must constantly be regenerated. In the East, you will find a LOT of soil that has been damaged far in the past, and hence still damaged today from oil inputs. But if you have neighboring land NOT being farmed, you can get organic plants to compost for your farm soil. In other words, it isn't enough to have water for your crops. You must have water to grow the plants that are used as fertilizer for your crop soil.

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Rotation ONLY slows degradation to the point it isn't dangerously noticeable. Nitrogen fixers, crop, fallow, is a good enough system as far as it goes, but it is still robbing the soil. You don't have to be a scientist to under the law of entropy. You must feed MORE into the soil than you take out. Don't forget, the microbes and bugs, insects and etcetera, all need to be fed as they are improving your soil. You aren't JUST feeding in the nutrients the plant gets that you eat, you are providing energy for all of the plants infrastructure. Civilizations fall on depleted soil. So can your grocery supply.

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If you want to understand violence, you only need to look at how many times ANY group, farming or herding, man or animal, over populates, draws down past replacement levels the soil, then dies off, and add in how many units would have been eating WITHOUT the deaths from fighting. Violence is necessary to keep species healthy. Just look at the increase in partial vegetarianism from China losing most of its swine, plus a bit of that in the US from shortages ( although mainly seen as Fake Meat from processed meals ), and we are STILL seeing food issues at our population levels. Violence WILL be the end answer.

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Anyway, just know that for any group to survive long term, you need far more than a farm. You need other land only harvested for its biomass. You can have that in the East, but not in the West unless you are talking about extreme depopulation first. Even free range cows out here don't work, not long term, because of the marginal soil and water simply never being enough to replace the range use. Manure does not replenish outside a managed system, and even then you need outside inputs.

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I can guaran-damn-tee you that anywhere in the West outside a few areas, and those few are easily disrupted with any regular use, soil inputs come from very far away. Each “independent” homestead needs oil to go to a centralized location to pick up inputs that come from even further away. Even with the natural gas fertilizer and hundreds of miles away hydroelectric generated electricity to pump local water, even with carbon fuels, the most energy dense form of fuel ever, STILL the soil is NOT being replenished.

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Fertilizer added to dead soil is just a hydroponics system. To get healthy plants you need organic, alive soil. If we were still eating healthy food grown in healthy soil, you can bet we wouldn't be dropping like flies from Corona and every geriatric disease out there ( and even as it is, we STILL have a pretty darn low death rate. The human body can survive some time eating literal garbage ). Yes, we can eat crap food drawn from crap soil. We've been doing it for centuries here. You'll STILL be able to survive a short time out West with no added soil inputs. JUST stockpiling bags of fertilizer could keep you fed in the driest areas.

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But isn't focusing JUST on short term survival a Gott Damn Fools Game? Don't we mock the jerk with a backpack full of three days of food and a fishing hook on a foot of line for ignoring his long term food supply? Isn't that why you know you need to grow your own food? Okay, so if that is the case, why should you ignore the long term viability of your soil? Because in all but a very few cases, your soil is ALREADY nasty crap. You are starting from less than zero. How easy would it be for a plague of pests to eat all your crop, because it was fake food in ill health to begin with?

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If we entered the apocalypse with healthy soil, we could mistreat it, draw down its nutrients, use less inputs than needed, and still eat for some time. But we are entering the collapse with crap soil, used and abused for a minimum of a century. In some cases, for almost FOUR centuries. I'm NOT claiming preppers must be Hippie soil hugging Green weenie Gaia worshipers, feeding the soil before themselves. I expect soil abuse, because in a survival situation that is what you do to avoid starvation. What I am saying is that the soil we have may not have any more draw down to it.

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Let me repeat that. The soil we have has no more extra resources to give, and rather than reduced output you might just get none. MIGHT. I'm not saying All Ye Abandon Hope. I'm saying, you MUST start rebuilding that soil immediately, or you might just not make it past a couple/three harvests. Because you won't have oil inputs. That is the Peak Oil part, where not only are inputs out of stock, if available the transportation for them is lacking. Which means you are suddenly local. And East, local just might be a heck of a lot easier, even with increased population. There is a LOT more unused land containing biomass that you can gather with human labor, transport with human labor and get that four century dead soil right back up to snuff.

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Then you can take all your enemies body parts, not for cannibalizing, but to feed the plants that will become your compost to rebuild your soil. I don't speak with any authority on that, but I would imagine that process to be pretty safe. You are using one plant removed PLUS the heat of composting to avoid any pathogens. In the West, not only do the bodies not decompose ( they mummify if the soil is dry enough, and so add nothing to the soil. With bodies and human waste in the desert, best to desiccate on the surface first before burying ), you are dealing with worthless soil anyway.

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In the West, you have no extra biomass. That is it. That is as simple as can be. And where there is extra, you have a very long distance to go to get it. Meaning you probably use far more calories than it can deliver going to go get it. The West had indigenous populations, but on the same scale as the Arctic inhabitants. Living on the edge of existence because they had been forced out of far better land by stronger tribes. Which, while we are at it, were NOT great care takers of the land either, despite what Dances With Wolves might have taught you.

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Don't believe me? What did they use for fuel out on the tree-less prairie? Buffalo chips. Now, what replenished the soil, if that was the case? They were STILL drawing down the fertility of the soil, even if it would have taken some time to notice. All people, through all times, any where and any when, eventually draw down the soil. If it takes a century for an undisturbed patch of soil to rebuild, do you think maybe a human farming that, or an animal eating MORE in times of lean would perhaps use up that soil just a tiny bit quicker?

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Species ALL over populate and die off, that is their control mechanism. Humans, with violence, actually INCREASE our survival odds by regulating the end demand of depleting resources. Otherwise we would be akin to a herd of deer stripping a land area of vegetation when the group got too large ( which is why we hunt, to keep the survivors healthier, right? ). I am NOT telling you to be in balance with nature, to only take the surplus.

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I'm saying that you WILL once again overpopulate. And you can either get ready for that by taking better care of the soil, to increase the health of the plants adding to your survivability, or you can plan on the Violence or the Population equation to counter the consequences of worse soil. You can use violence to take from better soil elsewhere, or you can go the infanticide or geriatricide route. These are your options, because right now, you SHOULD be viewing the negative consequences of relying on oil to mask our bad soil.

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You are a retard if you think Corona will ever end. It cannot end, because it is the camouflage for violence counterbalancing our depleting oil no longer replacing our depleted soil. Right now, the triage is slight and barely noticeable. We started out Opium Killing the seniors, right about after the Baby Boomers started retiring. Now we are Corona Killing them. And if you think Governor Grandma Killer is a bug and not a feature, you have no clue what we are in for. Of COURSE the government is Baby Stepping the genocide. But triage it is. Of COURSE they are Baby Stepping the race war. But triage it is. Of COURSE they are Baby Stepping the total end of imports, by merely ending the useless plastic trinket supply, but that WILL soon include all energy and food imports. A triage.

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Banana shortage due to a hurricane? I thought hurricane season was over a few months ago? When you see shortage after shortage after shortage, do you not see anything but shortages in your future? You shouldn't. Institutional system shortages, a form of benign violence ( like the over a year and a half old drug supply shortage, killing by neglect ), is the START of violence direct to flash flood depopulation. A triage. If you need any more detail than that, just stay in the suburbs next to the ghetto. A revolver should have enough ammo to put the whole family out of their misery before they are burned alive inside.

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Get your head out of your flag draped ass. Hubris kills. Not to say, head East, young man. This is only to say, despite more enemies to kill, the East is most of our long term better bet. But you are where you are. Make the best of it. Realistically assess your area, and make hard choices. I make no secret of the fact I might be successful as a herder, if the breeders survive, but even then, I'll also have to be a raider. That is the geological imperative. If you are East, you'll have to depopulate your area of operation.

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In the West, you'll need to genocide. The area does NOT support those already there, the resources too fragile to accommodate any others. In the East, you just need to persuade them to move on. In the West, because water is too far apart without oil transportation, if you let anyone live they have no choice but to double back and attack you. In the East, even with more people, they are not forced to go far to survive, so you will have less conflict even so ( except that coastal corridor ). And no, all the Yankees will NOT move south to survive. Cutting wood for winter is safer than attacking those living in the South.

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A reprint from issue number ten of my magazine ( subscription information at the end of this article ) from last Spring.

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WOMEN FIGHTING

Today we talk about if women should be allowed to fight come the apocalypse. And yes, I phrased it that way to get you gals all fired up ( “I'm a strong independent woman!” ). Sue me, I'm easily amused slipping into the sacred cow stockade at night and spooking the bovines. And yes, I actually have a very good reason besides that to bring up the subject. It will take tactics and apply them to tribal structure and the necessity of redesigning culture to the historic norm, as a survival mechanism.

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I've been looking forward for some time to writing this, as it is a challenge digging into this deeper than normal, and I also love starting each new issue off with a metaphorical bang. Plus, I woke up in the middle of last night to urinate and my brain suddenly started charting this article in intricate detail and I couldn't get back to sleep. I went to the dining room where we have a pretty strong night light ( so as to help in the kitchen and living room ) and wrote a bunch of quick notes, just so I could tell my brain to stop trying to remember its sudden brilliance and go back to sleep. And its been the only thing on my mind this morning.

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First, of course, as if any sane person of sound mind would think differently, I must veer off into the weeds and discuss a seemingly unrelated topic which is actually pertinent. Which are popular culture movies. It has been said that movies reflect the culture of the time in which they were made. I only agree with this partially. Of COURSE a movie reflects its era, because unless you are tripping balls on LSD, everything that goes into the film is obviously going to reflect your current reality and perceptions. All your actors will, mostly, have current fashions, current slang, idioms, your views of normalcy and etcetera.

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I think movies are more a reflection of current concerns, a celluloid version of a dream. Dreams are great, to deflect stress and model out concerns, as the human brain hates uncertainty above almost everything else. Dreams bring order and answer to worries and anxieties, and I think movies have a parallel function. Just like a song is a marker the brain uses to reflect upon an era, so too do movies reflect a solution to a conflict the brain needs resolved for survival/safe functioning. If you are brutally frank with yourself, you cherish, love, memorize and dwell on a LOT of music and movies that are by themselves not all that great.

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The music/movie isn't the reason for the warm and fuzzy memories, it is just indicative of something else. With movies, I believe they are our Aesop's fable of the modern Oil Age. Movies are our problem solvers, just like our dreams. And I would think that, as well, movies are of a highly personal nature. You could rave about a movie, quote it, and all I really remember is, “sucky movie”. But it isn't about the quality of the film. It is about your individual brain. There was a stoner movie around fifteen years ago, maybe twenty, that a lot of folks raved about. I thought the acting was terrible and the script more laughable than the jokes ( was that the one with McConnahay doing his “all right, all right, all right”? ).

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But most folks would say the same thing about the stoner movies I enjoyed ( well, the stand up routines more than the movies ) as a kid, Cheech & Chong. So, please bear with me as I bring up those movies that imprinted far more than normal with me. It is going to be a personalized selection, but you should be able to relate as I bring them up to make my point. With books, I don't think there is so much time or culture specificity. I think it would be hard to argue that the one best non-fiction book for collapse, ever, would be Catton's “Overshoot”. Even in apocalypse fiction, it is hard to beat the sixty something year old “No Blade Of Grass”.

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But movies are subjective. Even if you can generalize some eras. I think most 90's on up movies are more corporate culture than anything else. The 70's and 80's mostly a Rage Against The Machine ( or, Betrayal Of The Machine ). And prior to that, I'd broadly categorize as “conflict FOR tribe”. By Corporate Culture I mean to a large degree Political Correctness, but you can't just label that “communism” and move on. I think it is more closely tied to One World US Led Government, which is globalism, on the economic side and Corporate/Imperial Apologist on the cultural or political side.

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“Betrayal” would be my best guess label in general for the movies of the 1970's and Eighties. Of course not all movies can be labeled the same, so I'm just looking at a “flavor” if you will. An overarching theme that can be VERY subtle or Hit You Over The Head obvious. You can be looking at the betrayal from the Oil Age itself in The Road Warrior. Betrayal of ones loyalty or morality in The Godfather. Betrayal by those you are fighting under or fighting for in Apocalypse Now.

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Were “Animal House” or “Stripes” or similar a tale of rebels or non-conformists, or a tale of the system itself forsaking its participants? Yes, I know, a bit of Freshman college student midnight philosophizing, but I actually DO have a point to all this. If we can look at the general message of the tale, know where it was inspired from culturally, we can see the type of messaging that is either useful or harmful. We can judge its usefulness as belonging solidly in the past, or applicable to the future. I would say that collectively, most films of these fables deal with the collapse of the old age. And that is useful. We can discount misplaced loyalty. But we must also discount the new era message that was on top of the desired fable.

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One of my favorite little movies was “Taps” with Timothy Hutton and George C Scott. Viewing it at a young age, as with most movies, you are entertained by the superficial aspect of the action or comedy or whatever. Taps was a drama/suspense/action film, the kind we had a lot of prior to straight special effects driven action. Before it was Year Round, the Summer Blockbusters from the Lucas/Spielberg era on were mostly just action. But the rest of the year, budgetary realities called for a lot more talking than explosions.

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You got a LOT of really good movies that really stuck with you, multi-layered and multi-faceted that invited repeat views to unwrap that onion. “Taps” had a lot of layers. On its face its premise was unrealistic, but that made it both exciting for its uniqueness and acceptable because of its fable. You had a passing of an era, the end of Nation State Tribe, and the fight against that. An unwillingness to let it go without a fight. These two decades of movies, almost a generations worth, was both lamentation and hostility to the end of our nation. After that, it was just messaging to accept the new order.

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Then there was “The Terminator”. Obviously ONLY the first one as all others were both Political Correctness and Summer Blockbuster Action Only. I've always viewed it as post-apocalypse because of its doom and gloom flavor ( and for the same reason, why “Beyond Thunderdome” was NOT a post-apocalypse movie ). And I was begrudgingly acceptable of its near Feminist message. Just like Cameron's other perfect film, Aliens, the Strong Female Lead was strongly female. She wasn't secondary to the male lead as much as a partner that was biologically true. She was Cub Mother Protective. She was half of the team. Only after that did females turn to Xena Princess Warrior Lesbian Super Hero, the goal to replace males.

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The message should have been, Pro Motherhood. That women have a predominant role in the family, where males are more Outward focused, protectors on the offensive and providers. The message was perverted into Females Don't Need Males. And NEVER explored is the role of firearms and other carbon fuel mechanization allowing this “miracle”. You don't see bitches disadvantaged WITHOUT a gun. On the other end of the spectrum, you see TOO MUCH gun causing miracles. Returning to “Taps”, focus on one of the best scenes of the movie, at least as far as gratuitous violence.

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Tom Cruise, acting as he always would forever more as a short little egomaniac over compensating for his stature, was on the M-60 at the window overlooking the forces aligned against the cadets, burning off a belt of ammunition and pausing to look at his observer, “it's beautiful, man!” ( no, I haven't watched the movie for decades, but I'm pretty such I got that one right. As I said, some movies really stick with you. Perhaps because of my perception the military was a betrayal of expectations? Yes, I over analyze myself as well, in case you didn't pick up on that ).

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Well, yes, truthfully it was a very beautiful thing. But I don't think most of us took the view after watching it that fully automatic fire was not the greatest idea. I think most of us just stopped at “firepower rocks”. Or, perhaps, the answer to most problems is a sufficiently delivered amount of firepower? We can all relate. Most answers to most problems ARE just killing the problem. Basic male programming. Unfortunately, it doesn't pass muster with Guerrilla Warfare solutions, does it? We've all been running around arming up and buying more ammo, rather than retiring to a hermitage which is a metric butt ton more logical and effective but which none of us do, including myself.

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Similarly, arming up females is NOT the easy answer either. You'll note, I hope, that females were not combat armed for centuries AFTER gunpowder became dominant. Now, why wouldn't that be the case? If muscle weapons precluded female combat, from lack of body strength AND endurance of a Quick Energy Dump nature ( for the majority of females. The minority does NOT make your case of physical equality ), yet gunpowder weapons allowed it, why were there centuries of traditional Female Exclusion on the battlefield?

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No, Karen, it was NOT because we are suddenly smarter or more progressive in our thinking. Most Moderns are friggin retarded using logic. Just look at the gender segregated sports being integrated under Equality Of Invented Genders if you are in any doubt. Females themselves declined to make a profession of arms long after they were allowed to vote, although long before some of them idiotically voted to disarm themselves and make themselves victims, they had enough sense to use firearms for defense.

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Defense with weapons was never anything new. That is not the question. The confusion lies in participating in actual combat. Just because a rapist or attacker after killing the husband MIGHT be armed against does not make a woman a combat participant. Now, tactically, you can argue whether a female should even arm herself or not. Yes, the weapon equalizes the genders. But what happens when she is defeated? THAT is the problem.

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If a female fights, a firearm gives her as much of a chance of prevailing as it would a male. But a male will be killed regardless ( granted, there is the economic issue of slavery, but let's focus on straight combat and then prisoners for immediate assimilation ). A female, of breeding age, usually will be spared, all things being equal. If she is armed WITHOUT a combat firearm, and can offer only token resistance, easily overpowered, she will not be killed. But whereas a defensive firearm is acceptable, a combat gun is not. I believe that lays with the proviso that rape avoidance is acceptable, that she is STILL a non-combatant.

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Remember why rape was so bad, from societies viewpoint. It brought into question the problem of identifying the father. When divorce was traditionally outlawed, for the protection of both the wife and children going without support and protection, it would be an economic disadvantage to raise a child NOT of your genes. Yes, step-parents were a very normal thing, but you paid an economic price for secondary optimal offspring. The less affluent, hence less Food Secure, bid on stepchildren. The stronger genetic stock bid on their own genes being passed on.

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So a woman was expected to try to prevent herself from being raped ( it might seem ridiculous to accuse a women of “asking for it, by the way you were dressed”, but that fell under the old conviction that rape avoidance and if necessary male supervision/protection was normal ). A personal defensive weapon was allowed and even expected. HOWEVER! Once she Armed Up, went Tammy Tactical, she went from defense to offense and she stepped out of the allowed firearm usage. Obviously, a tiny .32 derringer was great for popping a cap into a rapists ballsack. The first idiot in the door after killing a settler was dumb enough to invite a dagger or a pistol shot if he tried to force himself on the wife.

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His fellow combatants both laughed at his lack of intelligence and approved of such an equalizer, as females were obviously physically weaker. A true warrior would be able to disarm said female, and give her credit for trying to defend herself. But if she were in the cabin, with a rifle or shotgun, helping to defend the family by engaging in long distance shooting, well then, she was now a combatant and treated as such, NOT just a defender of her virtue and her family. Do you see the distinction? Even armed with a long arm, if she stayed in the cabin and only fired at intruders already inside, she went back to defending only.

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Old Time combatants were most likely very un-Politically Correct. They treated women better, by virtue of them being women. You might hate the reason for that, because they were valuable breeders, but the fact remains. By STAYING breeders, and NOT combatants, they gained a survival advantage. Survival was NOT guaranteed by being unarmed offensively, but it sure as heck increased the odds. So, it wasn't the issue of females having guns or not, it was an issue of what they did with those guns.

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Now, of course, I have to acknowledge my tendency to plan for AFTER the collapse. I tend to view proper behavior through the lens of what is going to work long term, after the die-off. But you are probably asking, well, what about DURING the die-off? Isn't it kind of important that All Hands Are On Deck, combat ready wise? If there is usually a common thread throughout modern ( post-JFK assassination, just for a defining demarcation. I understand we had a strong resistance at least at first with giving up the tradition gender roles, so Strong Single Mothers while a tsunami, was at least a decade long switch ) post-apocalypse fiction, it is Linda Hamilton.

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Or perhaps, the Road Warrior gals in the compound, Big Hair and crossbows. I'm not sure which came first. But everyone equates the Terminator with the female warrior stereotypical character. And she did a kick-ass job and its a shame she had a bit of a dead cat bounce in her career. But, even though it is unjustified-see previous comment on the character-Sara Conner did unfortunately set in motion all the PC Bitches. Sara might even have been inspired by Patty Hearst, but it took popular fiction to start the trend of Bad Bitches With Bullets.

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If the character only had limited influence in the early 80's ( beyond pimply teenager fantasy material ) from Terminator, she REALLY dropped the bombshell in the sequel where she pretty much replaced a Marine Squadron in firepower and machismo. From then on, bitches with Poodle Shooters were cemented in our culture as sexy to guys and inspirational to women. I even wonder, as the 80's had different influences, how much T2 inspired the vastly inflated interest in the M16. Did Linda sell more AR's than Clinton? :)

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It seems, at least in said modern era, that new trends take just one generation to become normal ( the paycheck attached to that probably helps, right, Captain Obvious? ). Divorce took one generation to become all the rage the cool kids were doing. Immigration became New Normal in about the same time frame. And suddenly, within one generation, it became okay to be a female princess warrior. I of course weep, but I want you to understand that this is JUST a unsustainable trend that was recently introduced and it is NOT normal, rational, biology based behavior.

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Females evolved to switch allegiance to the superior warrior, for her protection and her children's, and that did not mean fighting back against a change in management. Do you know what I really, REALLY hate with 99% of all the survivalist guru advice out there? Come on! This should be an easy one. All the pussy footing around denying reality. I cannot think of one who doesn't suck on the Hopium glass dingus, if for no other reason than to increase his bottom line profits. Sure, they are honest. They don't lie. But nobody gets paid if they don't hold the same mindset of their audience, that of Guarded Optimism for the future.

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I hold out GREAT hope for the future, that we revert to traditional historical cultural norms, and get rid of all the surplus population, that we return to tribal organization and that we eliminate all the polluted genetic material from our species. I know, I've been accused of Social Darwinism before. I'm not saying they are wrong. I'm just disavowing myself from any comparisons with the Nazi's. But you have to admit, surely, that the existence of Soy Boys, Gender Reassigning PC Pukes, Cat Ladies, and devoting hundreds of thousands of dollars into keeping Shriner's Kids alive is NOT the best allotment of resources. Not because I lack compassion for those kids ( I have ZERO for the others listed, and wish them a swift death-which is all the compassion I can generate ) but because I know resources ARE shrinking.

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All these other ass faces think resources are infinite and our economy is an infinite growth model. And have even one of them read “Overshoot”? Or did they all just read Howard Ruff for his business plan for shearing the rubes? I've hinted before at denying women and children firearms, just as an ammunition saving practice. Now, how do I look on that stance among $2 shotgun shells and $1 9mm? Do you Honest Injun think that we will return to Ammo Normal prior to Corona Collapse?

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I'll veer off on one detail, to make my point, and then return. The CDC just magically “discovered” that an elementary school in Atlanta has teachers passing on Corona to students. Yeah, just when the hue and cry to open up schools got the loudest. Look, I'm not smart. This thing is easy. Look at a news report. Now, ask yourself, who gets paid? That is all there is to spotting Fake News. Every government body benefits from keeping schools closed ( at the same property tax levels, of course ). And yet, didn't the CDC opine for open schools this last year? Corona Will NEVER, Ever Never Die. No return to normal for you.

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So, that is number one for the reasons during a die-off to NOT arm your females. If your family is all your tribe, and you need your wife to Arm Up, you need to change your plan, but more on that later. For now, just consider my oft repeated warning against spraying and praying. Again we return to “Taps”. “It's Beautiful, Man!” is not a very good treatise on tactics. Why am I always repeating myself? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Am I insane? The last time I looked, all you mother humpers were the insane ones and I was a one eyed king in the valley of the blind. So, I'll just keep repeating myself, hoping the sticker shock of $1.68 a round 38 Special forces you to listen.

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ALL other armed forces in WWII used bolt action rifles. They might have saved a buck or two not modernizing, but they had the resources. They were replacing all aircraft, all tanks, most ships and etcetera. Why would long arms strain the even limited budget? Do you know why Germany invented the assault rifle ( besides being exponentially better at warfare than everyone else combined )? Because the carbines were cheaper to assemble. NOT cheaper to save money, cheaper to churn out millions more compared to bolt actions.

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They could churn out the extra ammunition for the carbines which were horrendous in accuracy ( I was wrong previously on that issue, thinking ammunition supply dictated rifle choice. It is true, but not in the scarcity way I envisioned ). They needed way more firearms and stamped verses milled was the way to go. That had always been the case, but the gunpowder/steel was modernized to allow a step up from pistol caliber only to better intermediate power carbines. Because prior, you had the weight and engineering issue ( say, the BAR ) to allow traditional ammunition to step up in power.

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Semi-auto was important. You can't argue with the experience on the Eastern Front. But first and foremost, you needed MORE long arms to be employed. Ammunition expenditure COULD have been by bolt action, because the extensive training was marksmanship, NOT mass firepower. They just didn't have the manpower left, and semi-auto multiplied the trained marksman's ammo use to replace limited manpower. They certainly DID NOT pray and spray. That was an American tactic that did NOTHING to lower the body count, but it saved on training because Cannon Fodder was the primary means to win our war. Plus, it was Defense Industry profitable.

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Remember how WWII was nothing more than a resource binge to save our industrial economy? Well, that “tradition” has pretty much been in decline the last decade. We are running out of Industry Quantities of ammunition. Wrap your thick skull around that. The New Normal is LESS ammunition. If you had Cased Up as I implored you the few years before Corona, you were only able to do so, and probably at BELOW cost, because there were no other buyers. NOT because so much was made.

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I'll just stop there. Odds are good you do NOT have enough ammo, so just consider halving your expenditure on the battlefield. More volume doesn't mean more hits. Not unless you have a Maxim water cooled tripod mounted heavy machinegun and an ammunition factory right next door. Semi-auto only helps if you are a marksman. All others just waste ammo. Like your wife. Who should be running your household, NOT your patrols or defense. Now, if the bitch be infertile, you MIGHT make a case that she can be cannon fodder.

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So, let's tackle that, shall we? Why, oh dear lord Baby Jesus, WHY, why would you think you can return to a traditional culture by postponing a return to traditional culture? Kindly riddle me this, Bat Boob. Traditional culture performs in a certain way not because ancient dudes were ignorant, unenlightened or insufficiently progressive. The culture was the way it was because it worked, for tens of thousands of years. If being a pillow biting taking it up the ass faggot was a practice that helped the species survive, we would have been doing that regularly.

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Rather, like rats in an experiment, homosexuality is only seen regularly under periods of over crowding and resource scarcity. If wanting to identify as a female rewarded a society, there would have been less warriors and more pseudo bitches contributing nothing to society since they could neither breed or fight. THAT surely was a winning strategy! If females were meant to risk themselves and not breed or not take care of their families, and if that had been a survival strategy, it would have been a traditional cultural norm.

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The Oil Age is a One Off, once in a species infinity limited single serving event. It allows robots to both replace warriors and to supplement child rearing. It is artificial food allowing surplus population. This is NEVER normal. So in an abnormal Age you get abnormal behavior like 99% non-contribution of the population, no need to breed, the ability to anally insert diseases and have them cured, bitches able to fight. Without oil, and for humps sake we ARE moving towards No Oil, you cannot subsidize non-survival behavior.

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You are told, you must grow food now, to practice, because it takes trial and error. You are told, you must practice your firearm skills. You are told, practice lowering your dependence on the electric grid. But, somehow, it is okay to ignore anthropology? To ignore NORMAL culture rather than the abnormal we now have? I do NOT want to hear any of you whiny bitches talking about Male Privilege. The traditional role of the male is to die defending tribe and family. That is OUR honor, and we gladly accept the sacrifice. Now, you females, you must sacrifice yourself to child rearing. That is YOUR burden. NOT to play at Sara Conner fantasy combat.

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Biologically, we are hard wired to perform our traditional gender based roles, and to derive pleasure and contentment from it. The worst thing a male can do is go Soy Boy Pussy, and the worst thing a female can do is deny themselves a family. Yet both genders were forced into those abnormal behaviors and both are miserable because of it. And you want to POSTPONE a return to real culture, because why? Because females not in combat halve your defense force? Who Humping Cares?!?! You are endangering your replacement units, and if your tribe survives by cannon fodder'ing females, the tribe doesn't survive anyway.

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Has the last century taught us nothing? At the very least, can't we agree that short term emotionally satisfying actions lead to terrible long term consequences? That should be the very least we have learned from this “great” experiment with progressiveness. Your daily actions MUST incorporate long term survival trends. Breeders do not belong on the battlefield, for the very simple long term replacement they represent. How hard is it to understand that sperm is cheap but eggs are dear? One guy can service the whole village of breeders. Not enough breeders and the larger sperm supply is wasted. It takes several seconds to ejaculate and nine months to gestate.

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You kill ten men and the women stay pregnant. You kill one female and you cannot replace her womb. Why does the bitch have a weapon in her hand making her a target? Now, under primitive medical conditions, a female can safely ( all things being equal ) procreate from about age 15 to 30. Up to ten offspring. She won't live too far past first grandchild age at that rate, dangerously depleting her bodies stored nutrients. But it can be done. A male has about the same lifespan as far as fighting ability. Do the math.

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That is five fighters and five mothers producing fifty children in a smidge over one generation. You can kill five males and still get twenty-five females as well as five times the fighter replacement rate, from that ONE female you didn't kill in battle, in thirty years time. Of course, death in childbirth and etcetera, and it doesn't work out that well, but it shows the math. Which is only hard past addition and that is ALL you need to understand. This ain't calculus or some crap. It is taking off your shoes and counting digits simple.

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But, Jim, you cannot get ANY offspring if the males die and the females are defenseless. No, you can't get offspring from your tribes males, but you can get them from the males that killed your tribes males. THAT, my fine feathered minions, is called species survival, NOT individual survival. Look, we all want to be the universes extra special snowflake meant to be framed and admired. But none of us are. Not Cathy Cat Lady, not Mr. Sports Ball, not El Presidente For Life. We are just meat sacks here to do the species bidding.

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What you want and desire means dingus all. If you choose to ignore your base programming, hard won after a couple hundred thousand years ( but Jim! Mankind sprung forth whole formed as farming peasants. Okay, perhaps. Evolution or design by deity, the programming is still the pinnacle of perfection ), you WILL be replaced by those who were not so pig headed stupid. You will, very simply, die. Your polluted genetic material will cease to stain a cervix. Lucky is needed WITH smart. Stupid never gets the chance to see lucky, not in a resource scarce environment.

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If you fail to flip the switch to smarter cultural programming, you will cease to exist in the long run ( even with carefully preserved Oil Age Artifacts, because culture is the ultimate tool, NOT any Industrial Age tool you care to name ). Not caring about the long run, means you hate your grandchildren. It is about as simple as that. You can layer all the lipstick you want on that pig, she's still a pig. Excuses and “Ought A Be's” are trying to turn a pig into your prom date. You either reprogram or you perish.

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You can do the math all day long on the EROI of firearms verses manual muscle powered weapons, but it doesn't matter. Chemical energy replaced muscle energy for conflicts. But while its easy to stockpile chemical energy, it ain't anywhere close to as easy to store the metric butt tons of all the other energy needed to enable our cultural change we “enjoyed” the last hundred years. Females only were able to match male muscle power through electronic or gasoline powered machinery. Absent those two Equalizers, having chemical energy firearms means little to nothing.

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If you cannot raise excess calories with oil, you cannot kill off your breeding stock in battle and replace your offspring with imported Little Brown Babies. Do you have any clue what decentralization through energy contraction leading to a Dark Ages means? It means you get to do it all on your own, a future anarchists will NOT be very happy about. So your breeders become JUST breeders, or you won't replace casualties. Meaning your tribe cannot feed or defend itself and your tribe is extinct, beyond the minor genetic contribution the cream of your surviving females will make to the new tribe.

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Now, if the die-off is rapid, because it has to be, because your surplus food is not available to your surplus population, that means you don't have time to hump around. You do NOT have the luxury of time, or of mistakes. To me, that means your females need to be females again. Immediately. And that entails not just popping out kids but of raising them. If you are not able to birth them, you sure can raise them and provide home economics for both them and the fighters. Infertile doesn't mean useless. It can simply mean a decentralized production system, logistics support for the fighters. He is on patrol or guard most of the time. He still needs meals, clothing and footwear, and etcetera.

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No one is going to be idle, as far as basic tasks. Our Oil Age materials WILL allow more luxury and idleness, as not everything must be Cottage Industried right away, but the males will still largely use most of their time expanding the defensive perimeter and females most of the time providing their logistics ( be that food and clothing or the biological replacement unit ). Old bitches will still provide home duties, and old dudes still will be able to train the young males and provide immediate defense inside the wire.

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Yes, things will be far from ideal at the very beginning. A lot of homesteads will be living off stores, with far less people than what a self sustaining village needs. You will all be both living off stores and pulling double or triple duties. And at first if you have all old females, even with orphans the temptation will be to incorporate the surplus females into your defense force ( because while young soldiers with guns will mostly defeat old guys with guns, anyone with a gun is still something of a formidable force ). But you are still ignoring the culture and focusing on the tactical.

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Only the idiots today think talk trumps action. That is because you can only talk when action is impossible, because you ignored biology. ACTION is what is teaching the next generation. ACTION is what cements the tribe together, NOT talk. You cannot have grandma fighting the tribes battle, while at the same time telling young girls they can only be breeders and homemakers. The young girls might want to grow up to be fighters. THAT endangers the tribes future. See the above math . Because most people ARE dumber than dirt and can only be programmed, not taught.

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I don't mean to sound like an elite excusing mistreating the poor. Most rich or powerful people are also idiots, because they act out of greed at the expense of social stability. They are ANTI-tribal. Which translates to species endangerment because their tribe cannot survive on its own, being mere parasites. But most people are dumb asses. Which is why traditional culture is superior. The bloodshed has already been spilled in proof of concept. All they must do is blindly follow their training as children and they will have increased survival chances.

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Under traditional cultural training, you MUST brainwash these dumb asses into unquestioning compliance. So training is everything. And training is SHOWING. It is not telling one thing and doing another. Even smart people are better off NOT questioning almost anything. They get too smart for their own good that way. And they trick themselves into believing self interest is the same as tribal interest. Do you think otherwise smart people would actually think, say, race determined intelligence?

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No, but programmed people who were otherwise intelligent, freely abused different races under that theory, which strengthened their tribe who was colonizing the other race. Make sense? Of course it does. Racism is a survival mechanism in many different ways. Meaning ALL races who survived are full of racists. Racism is not just a White Thing. Those who tell you so want to colonize you. Ignore that at your own risk. But, the point is, tribal behavior is irrational behavior, and needs programming, NOT teaching. The smartest naked ape in the room does better under programming than pure logic, species survival wise.

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Flip the switch on programming, and get those gals back in the kitchen chained to the stove with babies hanging from their teats, and get guys back in the field as targets, NOT hiding behind a woman's skirt. Biology doesn't have to be fun, just followed.

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Bleed In Training

September Article-Bleed In Training

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BLEED IN TRAINING

The retired Army officer who wrote “On Killing” has largely been recognized as somewhat of a fraud, or at least with some bizarre programming disguised as education. Well, I KNEW this, and have put off reading that book for the longest time. It is little more than a dust catcher. But I accidentally started reading his other book. To my regret. I didn't make the connection between On Combat and On Killing, when I bought the second book.

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For the last five years, I've been buying and stockpiling books, not reading them. All my reading was on the Internet, making up for many lost years. Then, I added YouTube to that. I've had to learn how NOT to read from a screen. Part of the problem was that I bought a lot of very good books, in huge numbers, prior to moving back in town. Peak Oil, anthropology, economics and others, buying every best rated book on a subject until whatever I read was simply repeating itself. Derivative works. By the time I got into town, the good books were largely gone and I was left with mediocre ones to buy.

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I had reached the point of diminishing returns. So most of the “new” books I go to read are simply not very good. I have to force myself. I'm not generating articles from Internet reading, or minion comments, and hence only have my books for inspiration. Don't get me wrong, this is very much a White People Problem. Even struggling to come up with article ideas, I'm STILL retired ten years early. We should all have it so rough. But as a lover of the written word, mediocre books are still painful to encounter.

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And this dude, he is a certifiable moron. He presents other peoples ideas well. When it comes time for him to step up to the bat, however, he hits all foul balls. What an unoriginal thinker, a spouter of propaganda, an imperial and politically correct apologist. His contention in On Killing that males are reluctant to kill was ludicrous enough, but he just doubles down on the idiocy in On Combat. His pet theories on video game violence are particularly difficult to encounter.

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But, again, he at least does give you a solid 30% decent ideas. Not his own conclusions, but of others in the field of the physical and mental aspects of combat. You just have to be able to ignore all his BS. I can only handle a chapter once a week or so. Nothing earth shattering, if you've read up on the subject on the Internet. But I did like his reminder on Bleeding In Training. He covers all the groovy new training techniques such as paint filled bullets ( not paint ball guns ) and such, but his useful tip was that other types of training are still useful. Because they were Stress Inoculation.

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His example were two Rangers seeing combat in Vietnam, and one joking that this was easy, after Ranger School ( in other words, they were still better rested and better fed, in combat, than what they had suffered through in school. They were inoculated against a lesser stress through a greater one ). The training itself didn't increase their chances of survival, per se, but just training to suck up the stress, THAT was the prize. We've all experienced this in life. After Boot Camp, military life was easy. After the military, civilian jobs were a breeze. After football training, most “hard” chores were no sweat.

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And this is key, for us, because there is no actual training for the apocalypse. Not living in Bosnia, or Argentina, even, because no one was living through the end of supply, or the end of quasi-civilized rules of engagement. In a war, you have medical help and you have international oversight to somewhat, to some degree, hold down the number of excesses in behavior. In the apocalypse, there is ZERO hope. No hope of medical supplies saving you, no hope of a reigning in on sociopath levels of behavior. No hope of outside intervention or supply. War is NOT the apocalypse.

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Living through a war DOES inoculate you to later panic or unhealthy levels of stress, however. Military training does almost nothing to prepare you for combat, but does teach you to handle that stress that would otherwise be crippling. In other words, training for stress hardens you up, so you can survive whatever life throws at you. After losing my kids, living off grid in primitive conditions was a walk in the park, for me. After living on almost no money, for a long time, and I easily view a very small income as nothing to worry about.

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So, you must harden yourself. THAT is the training you need to survive the apocalypse. Rucking a heavy pack for hours trains you for NOTHING, because only a moron packs more than ten percent of his body weight ( above normal shoes and clothing ). But it does train you to suck up pain and discomfort. Running for an hour or more doesn't train you to be a better runner. If you can run that fifty minutes needed to get to an endorphin jolt, it is just trading future joint damage for an immediate cheap high. But it does train your brain to push physical limits.

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Actually, it is quite amazing how well your body reacts to combat. Not just the chemicals needed to Fight Or Flight. Actual physical reactions such as an auto switch turning off your hearing to drown out your ( YOUR, but unfortunately not the THIER of close comrades ) gunshots, tunnel vision for better aim, time distortion for better reactions, etc. Your body is, naturally, a warrior. You just need to help it along with the training. Your body is also a natural runner, from our evolved skill in the ability to sweat to dissipate our heat as we are able to run down ANY game. Trust your body. It is designed for this crap. But help it along.

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We are natural runners, just not on concrete. That is the fly in the soup. Otherwise, hours long training to run would be ideal. Just as we cannot train for combat. Mostly because of the nation state and the Agricultural Age we live in. Warriors used to train through childhood to stalk and kill. Now, we train to labor under unnatural conditions. You could even argue school is NOT for the education, obviously, but also, not really about the propaganda. More so than anything, it teaches us to live and work unnaturally.

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Training kids in obviously false paradigms trains them to ignore ones own natural inclinations. Train against biology, really. No matter how much the commies teach butt pirating, carpet munching or child murder as natural, MOST normal people won't take a dingus up the ass or get an abortion. The propaganda wasn't direct like that. It did, however, normalize the teaching/training of other unnatural activities. Like getting carpal tunnel or irradiated eyeballs or ruining normal health with graveyard shifts.

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But I shan't diverge into a rant against our befouled corporate overlords, themselves mere slaves to the bankers. Time enough for that in the next hundred articles, or more. Back to indirect training. Hunter and gatherer boys didn't directly train for combat. They trained for hardship and endurance and camaraderie. Hardship through remaining outside the comforts of village life, endurance by stretching that out in time. Stress inoculation. And learning to rely on ones fellows to both help you take life and protect you. Hunting dangerous animals both removed a competitor apex predator and bonded/trained the band as a combat team.

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None of that was DIRECT combat training. It was indirect training. Now, you are old. I am old. Ross Perot would be older than God or dirt, if he wasn't already dead. You lost the chance to train as a warrior in your childhood, born far too early. You lost the chance to live the life of a warrior, because no matter how close some might come, such as cops, the activity is still muted and queered by the necessity of training soldiers rather than warriors, in our current society. The best you can do is to stress inoculate.

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Going through the military, having periods of extreme poverty, these help greatly. But if it has been too long in the happening, I postulate that the helpful effects have worn away. You need booster shots. Just five years living in town, I would have a period of readjustment going back off grid. I TRY to give myself stress boosters, but just forcing myself to do unpleasant things such as exercise or eating healthy ( nothing healthy tastes good ) I don't believe to be enough. Just sticking to a routine to maximize health isn't really Stress Inoculation.

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Perhaps the regular stress of flaying about trying to find article topics keeps me from relaxing too much, but I don't know. I think I'm too close, inside looking in. I know I haven't relaxed in retirement, just achieved more contentment. Perhaps the continued threat/stress of an unfurling collapse helps me somewhat. I do know the harder I am on myself, the more stress I overcome, the easier it will be to accept and roll with the apocalypse. If you Cowboy Up now, it won't be as difficult to do so when the globe goes dark and the Warriors Come Out To Play.

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You MUST stay in shape. That is Rule One of the Zombie Apocalypse, Cardio. You can't jog at your age, but you can still walk. Walk for your fitness, and to toughen up in the extreme weather. Don't worry about carrying weight. You can't shoot nor scoot, so it is guerrilla warfare or nothing. Stay in shape, eat better, and try to stay off Dumbass Doctor pill prescriptions as possible. And start living harder than you would like. Embrace The Suck.

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Living off grid on junk land teaches you very little. Instead of paying utility bills, you just buy utilities up front. Living off grid is still just shopping, really. That isn't the value of the activity. It is toughening up through giving up luxuries that is the valuable training. Find your own ways, age appropriate ways, of stress inoculation. Push yourself physically. Bicycle instead of car in bad weather, as training. Lowering the heat to discomfort levels. Visiting in-laws you despise. Get out of that rut commuting to work, forcing yourself to seek alternate routes ( just not through the ghetto, not nowadays ).

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Deprive yourself, an example making your own coffee instead of drinking out. Force yourself to give up alcohol for a week ( or cut back on smokes, or sweets, for X period of time ). Keep dealing with stress. It can be small. Inoculations are NOT full strength, if they are just booster shots. Ideally, the initial inoculation is harder than projected future stresses. Then the boosters need not be too bad. But even if life's crapstorms are no where near Civilization Collapse Event levels, hopefully that initial stress did teach you confidence in overcoming bad things happening to your beautiful self.

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I used to be The World's Worst Handyman. I had zero mechanical abilities. I could take the worlds strongest nail and drive it in more sideways than downward. Only being forced to work through the stress of ignorance could I start to learn how to accomplish anything. After a time, I could at least try new repair tasks with unfamiliar materials with some hope of success. Experience is an exponential reward. Combat is the exact same way. You know it will suck at first, but if you train the brain, it will be far less of an intense stress.

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Stress inoculation, AND, an idea of what to expect. Forget Hollywood. The calm ability to react correctly will ONLY come with experience. At first, you will be a hot mess. Crapping yourself is probably going to be assured. Afterwards, the adrenaline surge will do strange things to you, from shakes to sudden naps. Expect it and it isn't so bad. Just trust your body. Everything it is doing to you has a purpose to help you survive. Another way to prepare, besides understanding physical reactions, is to mentally prep yourself.

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The trope “man is reluctant to kill his own kind” is complete horse crap. We were designed to kill our own kind, as far as a species. It can be no other way, because we have no predators effective enough to thin our ranks as our food supply would dictate. Now, if you say, “man is reluctant to kill anyone in his own tribe”, then you would be correct. Just as the idiots misinterpreted “thou shall not kill” from the more correct “thou shall not murder”, people assume you should treat all humans as your tribe. And that is SO friggin wrong. The author of On Killing is nothing more than a Kool-Aid drinking Politically Correct class conscience tool of the elite banker scum. Die, you whore, David Grossman, and may the gold you received from indoctrinating a generation in Marxist swill be melted down and poured down your throat, after a copy of your books are shoved up your ass and soaked in kerosene then lit.

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Oops! Did I get a little carried away? Meh. Who cares. The great thing about hyperinflation is that retired military officer idiots are no longer paid the big bucks out of my taxes, but just off the printing presses, so at least he is not further insulting me with salt in the wounds of my book purchases. And I do believe both copies were used, so the hump didn't get any loyalties from me. But seriously, NEVER buy any of his books. Just Internet search “physiology of combat”. The Internet doesn't actually punish authors.

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Nor does the library. A good enough book, I'll peruse in the library then buy my own copy. Information on the Web that interests me, I'll purchase the books because you must have source copies. Both to get more source material and to have a non-electronic source. E-paper is great to trial run, or for disposable reading such as newspapers or periodicals ( which usually only superficially cover subjects ). But my point is, worthless authors such as Grossman NEED to be replaced by free material. And great authors will see the Internet simply as advertising.

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Whole religious cults ( definition of a religion-they killed enough people to instill wide acceptance. Definition of a cult-failed religion. Yes, the LDS is still a cult. Once they kill off all gentiles in Deseret, then they will become a religion. I wish them luck, as long as they stay out of northern Nevada ) have been founded on the poor translation of “thou shall not kill”. No, you cannot MURDER. The difference is that not all killing is murder, but all murder is killing. In other words, Obtuse Ollie, you can kill plenty of folks, as approved by god and the king, but you cannot murder anyone ( on the No Kill List ). I would think even a retard like a liberal could understand that.

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And if killing is okay with God, why would man be programmed to naturally despise killing? Logically, that makes no sense. God looks down at his chosen people, likes what he sees, gets wood over bosomy babes and studly warriors, and tells them to go smite the heathens. Because, Lord knows, there are a metric butt ton of heathens out there that need smiting. Why would he handicap that by making man hate killing? He wouldn't, now would he? And looking at it from an atheist viewpoint, why would man evolve ( yes, I know, evolution was part of God's plan, according to many smart people. I'm keeping the argument simple ) unable to efficiently protect his people?

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Hesitation in combat due to morality is deadly. You MUST have your head right to go a killing. Why else does the military dehumanize those needing killing? Kill a commie for mommy, indeed! Hell, I STILL want to go kill commies, and I like to think I was only partially brainwashed by the military. Do you think I would be bothered if those commies are Americans? No. I only fear being caught and martyred. Which is why I'm willing to wait for the apocalypse, even if that means I might miss most deserving targets.

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Politically Correct asswipes are the ones pushing for Universal Brotherhood. They want you to think of rampaging Muzzies or Ebola laden Deep Africa Imports as one of your brethren. They tell you it is racist to want to keep your job. They tell you to leave your child in the capable hands of drag queens for story hour. What the hell do kids know, except what you tell them? Never trust commies to teach your spawn. If it means mommy who thinks she wants to be independent and a career women has to stay home to raise kids, well, hump her dreams. She bred 'em, she can support 'em, just like we males must do.

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All those PC pukes with their double standards can kiss my unwashed leaking ass. If you are a commie ( hint, they do not like the original Ten Amendments, as written rather than as changed, so it isn't rocket science ID'ing them ), you deserve to be killed. I WANT to kill you. I will have no hesitation. As long as I am authorized, meaning it is no longer against the law of a country that no longer exists, I will gladly shoot your ass. YOU are indeed Bullet Worthy. If I steal the wealth and I can afford it, I will buy you after you have been turned into slaves, just so I can make you suffer greatly before death.

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And, yes, I'm aware, anyone who disagrees with my hatred for commies will use this as an excuse to demonize me and call me a psychopath. Hey, I actually can exhibit SOCIAL behavior. I'm only antisocial with other tribes. That is xenophobic, not psychopathic. I am only deranged if you deny tribalism. And if you deny tribalism, you are by definition a communist and NOT of my tribe, hence proving tribalism. So, ipso facto, I cannot be a psycho. Take that, Marxist vermin.

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See how easy it is to embrace killing? Oh, I know, you'll say I cannot prove my assertion without actually acting on it. But why would I be repulsed by killing, yet at the same time fantasize about it on a regular basis? And “fantasizing” is not even proper. I merely wargame in my mind who I am going to kill, gladly, with pleasure and aforethought, once it is LEGALLY permissible, so that once the balloon goes up, my mind has zero doubts. No doubt, no hesitation. No hesitation, I am tuning brain to body to become more combat effective.

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( P.S.-you understand, this is ONE wargame, not all of them. In many, I need to kill those I'd rather not, but must, just from necessity. For instance, as much as I admire those Tip Of The Spear guys such as LEO's, if they move to protect an enemy tribe, say once the force becomes the mayors bodyguards after he becomes king, and they are trying to starve me, they need to be killed. You can admire an enemy warrior. He still needs to be killed. There are many I'd rather not kill, such as defensive only groups. But they endanger my food supply by needing it themselves, meaning it is kill or be killed by starvation )

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Is it enough to be defensive? HELL NO! Let me add emphasis so as to dispel any confusion. As the great Mogumbo has taught us, using caps and MULTIPLE explanation points means you must take what you read far more seriously. HELL. NO!!!!!!! By making up your mind now to only protect yourself, you are setting yourself up for failure. What idiot decides to ONLY shoot back in an ambush, when it is far safer and more effective to go hunt that enemy down in their festering lairs and eliminate them as a threat?

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By trying to take some high moral ground, you allow yourself to be shot at first? How is that going to help your tribe and your family? Your wife depends on you for defending her, as do your children, and you are going to even the odds for your attacker? Do you WANT to lose your minion club card? Because THAT is how you lose your minion club card. That attitude right there. Playing the victim. You must be perceived in your own mind as being a victim before you shoot back. Manly men, who Baby Jesus AND bodacious bosomy babes approve mightily of, take the fight to the enemy, and suck up doing the Hard things. Part of training, to achieve excellence, to increase your odds of surviving to live to fight another day to protect your people.

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