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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

black apache 2 of 4

BLACK APACHE 2
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Most of us not living in a grass hut being bitten by malarial mosquitoes and hurling chunks of rebar at the heads of chimps to try to score some bush meat don’t have to worry about basic survival. We might not eat nutritiously or intelligently, but we have no clue what real hunger is, as evidenced by the common phrase “I’m starving!”. No one does it in jest or mockery, they do it because it is the closest they have ever come to being hungry ( short periods of Top Ramen only diets do not count, due to the surplus body fat being digested to compliment your noodles ). It is not really possible to relate to actual starvation when you have never experienced it. It is like reading about how to do something as opposed to actually carrying out the task. Different realities. Nor can we really relate to a truly violent life. Outside combat veterans, and even then that experience must be tempered with the reality that it was a contrived event that could be exited from ( I’m not trying to detract from the experience, merely saying it was an experience of limited duration ).

All we can do is attempt to break out of our self-defense self-imposed view of life. It isn’t easy because, again, we are learning how to live a foreign life by reading a book, as it were. The best we can do is to try to cast off our blinders. We can try to visualize the new reality, but only by practicing as clear of thinking as possible. Most people won’t do that because not only does it hurt mentally, sometimes you can’t picture colors when you are blind ( to continue to pile on the metaphors ). For instance, even the most rabid III%er Libertarian still wastes their time with the NRA trying to oppose further gun control. Some small part of them won’t admit voting doesn’t count ( that would mean we aren’t a Republic OR a democracy, which leaves just unimaginable alternatives ) or that they can’t even buy Congress ( not quite as bad of a rubber stamp as the Soviet version [ Duma? ] but getting closer all the time ). This is the kind of reality avoidance you must beware of. Same as with the notion of a One World Jew Controlled Illuminati. First off, even if Jews were so evil, there simply aren’t enough of them ( needing loyal minions rather than mercenaries, as it were ). Sure, Jews might have been bankers. But bankers are evil irregardless of religion or nationality. Jewish-ness was just a hat fashion choice ( I’m kidding! ), not an occupation. Second, small factions ruling humanity is silly. We don’t centralize well, being tribal. But here is my point. By thinking One World Government is a threat, we avoid the far more real danger of nation state collapse and the anarchy energy starvation is going to usher in. We hold on to the hope that while it will suck to be enslaved, at least we won’t enter into a true collapse. Sorry, you get the worst of both worlds. Local, decentralized autocracy with starvation and disease and war and etcetera.

More Next Article ( be patient, I’m working towards helping you visualize your real suck-ass future ).

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

black apache 1 of 4

BLACK APACHE

Today we talk not about a cool looking attack helicopter but about placing yourself in another’s shoes so you might envision what the Apocalypse has in store for you. As Americans we have a really hard time even defining reality, let alone agreeing we should accept its existence. Imagine if you were born in the northeast to educated parents who while no longer Rockefeller rich certainly are never going to have any troubles paying the heating bill. They went to Ivy League schools and are in the upper percentile earners, and you will be doing the same. Your primary schools were structured to keep out the riffraff, as is your property tax supported well funded police force. It isn’t as if you have a butler or maid, and it isn’t as if you will be doing anything else but working like an sixty-five hour a week dog, but just from your surroundings and inherent opportunities there is a certain disconnect between your life and a bigger reality surrounding you but kept at arms length. You are a bit clueless about how the other 90% lives. You might play at being ghetto with the lingo and music, but all White Bread kids do that as a rebellious statement to their parents, too ignorant in their short time on earth to recognize that their guardians might be displaying a survival trait rather than a lazy ignorance.

You will probably be listening to Rush Limbaugh, the darling of the working moneyed class who advocated starving the poor if they can’t find a job so that your already low tax rate is reduced further. After all, if you didn’t work, how will America stay great? The poor can serve in the military to safeguard your corporation who will use the subsidized commodities from around the world, and the poor can pay the taxes for that military because they were too lazy to go to school to be as smart as you and so your superior social class was earned by you. If the poor want to avoid being cannon fodder ( contrary to the propaganda that the all volunteer army is so well trained they can’t ever die, the military is not something you turn down in flyover country if you ever want a career or even a first job, and low mortality rates are mainly achieved by selective engagement and air strike achieved civilian famine and disease, not by training on par with college educations or corporation retreats ) or paying too many taxes, they merely need to be as smart as both Rush and your average 10%er offspring.

Or so they tell themselves. And any of us who will listen ( going by the average Limbaugh advertisement, most listeners are old and frail and on the verge of dying before they can cash in their Rush approved investments, but back in my day all the young gung-ho ladder climbing pseudo-Libertarians loved to listen ). Now, you and I, older by a generation, can easily pick apart all the fallacies in the above example. We’ll congratulate ourselves on being smarter and wiser, which we are, but then miss the entire big picture. Because even if we are more reality centered, more aware, we still suffer from the same mental blinders as Eric Eastcoast. We still are looking from a position of privilege and don’t see it. We don’t see it because we think we have it bad compared to the 10%. Well, almost all Americans ( aside from most Blacks and most reservation Indians [ those without casinos ] ) have it better than most of the rest of the world. And the rest of the world mostly has it much better than 99% of people throughout history ( apart from some Ebola Country populations or massacred refugees ).

So how can most of us have even the remotest inkling of how life will really be like after a collapse? Even our fiction is totally discolored by our privilege. More Next Article.

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Monday, December 7, 2015

high tech high cost

HIGH TECH HIGH COST

Last week The Arch Druid Report ( the Druid Dude ) had another installment of his latest fiction, an interesting take on the fantasy world of low-to-middlin-tech during the impossibly long and slow collapse, in which the main character is introduced to the local military ( and by the way, this series illustrates for me as a writer the difference between fiction and non-fiction. The same length post in fiction is breezed through in say, five minutes or so. His non-fiction must be savored and thought over and takes ten if not fifteen minutes. In fiction, you need to write three times the amount to fill a readers time. One of the reasons I don’t care for it as a producer. As a consumer, that’s a different story ). The Dude had a great alternate world construct, in that all males were serving in the local militia ( the Swiss model, not the US one which was a history of drunkenness and unprofessionalism followed by short intervals of Indigenous massacres ) and all defense measures were focused on producing proficient infantry accompanied with field artillery.

It was pointed out that by doing away with all high tech arms, not only was it in depth decentralized defense on the cheap, but that any invader didn’t need to be defeated but merely bankrupted. First and foremost it must be reiterated that this is not a present day story but in the near future after a stair step collapse has whittled away a lot of today’s institutions, one presumes among them large nation states with surplus energy. Remember, technology is going to entropy from lack of cheap and plentiful petroleum. I think the underlying point being made is that in a energy contraction, high tech ramps up in cost. Right now, high tech has unbelievable hidden costs, multiple vulnerable supply points, a history of needed legacy costs and is more dependent on oil ( not less, just because a computer chip now does more with less ). The Druid is pointing out how vulnerable the military is to all this. This weeks entry just touched the surface and it will be interesting to see how in depth it is taken. For now, let’s ask ourselves how realistic this is.

The Haber-Bosch chemical process of artificial nitrogen creation is at once extremely capital intensive, centralized and dependent on high tolerance designs. It took decades of German investment in parallel and complimentary industry as well as civilian infrastructure ( widespread public education, for one ) to create the process ( the knowledge came first, only the means to implement later as high pressures were needed to reduce temperatures to an economic level. At the time, the main competitor was Chilean mining of salts ). The knowledge was easy. The infrastructure was high tech ( at first, even Krupp cannon steel state of the art couldn’t design an adequate containment vessel ). Economics of scale were critical, as was state investment. Obviously the original invention process doesn’t need to be duplicated after a war with damage to these kinds of factories ( think petroleum refineries, but on steroids as it can’t be low-teched as can oil refining to a degree ), but all the assorted contributing industries must be running or have trade access to you if they are foreign.

Just gunpowder nitrates alone ( modern arms, case ammunition and explosive powders manufacturing all have similar issues logistically and energy speaking ) make defensive warfare problematic. Aside from stockpiling the ammo prior, you are exposed to manufacturing bottlenecks due to bombing. Long term, without a centralized industrialized military you can’t keep a centralized industrialized economy running. The Swiss model relies on national self-sufficiency to re-arm itself, but it also includes the means to defeat the attempted bombing of its manufacturing.

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Friday, December 4, 2015

xenophobia 3

XENOPHOBIA FOR FUN AND PROFIT 3 of 3

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I believe that the reason xenophobia is so reviled is because it strikes at the core of nation state worship. Why else is the racism card slapped about so freely against xenophobes? If you hate Ghetto Blacks because they are from a dangerous foreign tribe, Visigoths in America, but don’t hate British Caribbean Blacks as they share a common culture with us, you are NOT a racist. If you hate Blacks and Asians, even if they are Oreo’s and Twinkies ( black and yellow on the outside, white on the inside-in other words, regardless of skin color they act White ), then yes, you are a racist. If you hate Blacks and Asians ( except Doug in accounting who is more apple pie American than you ) but also Limey’s and Frogs, you are xenophobic, NOT racist. Japanese hate all foreigners, even fellow Asian Koreans ( or, perhaps especially Koreans ) and are properly labeled xenophobes by the media, but everyone else seems to be branded racists if they fail to embrace Others. Well, the Japanese are one of the few homogenous nation states there is, perhaps one of the only, a rare isolated group that showed little interest in assimilating any other group into their Borg ( outlying islands such as Okinawa are less so and a more recent addition or a misstep in strategy ). Everyone else was busy interbreeding and assimilating and conquering and making a mess of their tribal identity.

Xenophobia is a much more intelligent use of tribal markers in that it is far more flexible. You can use skin color, or not. You use language and dress and mannerisms and everything else to identify the enemy. It isn’t hard, they are bad if they aren’t You. Your tribe. If they act in any way different they are Them, and Them will main you or kill you or enslave you or force themselves on you and then you will have a half breed baby and you will become an outcast in your tribe ( a rational reaction as it precluded any female from mating with the enemy then lying that it was nonconsensual-this must have been a common occurrence for a cultural trait to have been established for it. You don’t willingly allow breeders to defect to the other side ). If Them is ALWAYS the enemy, you avoid unpleasant situations that could harm you or Your. Yes, Virginia, most people are about smart as a box of rocks. Make their choices easy to make, not difficult. Public shock and awe over your unapproved behavior might seem irrational and an emotional response but it serves to keep your tribe acting in its own interests as an entity rather than allowing individual choice to undermine its survivability.

The Nation State acts in much the same way, imposing cultural dictates that must be blindly followed, which ensures its survival as an entity. If Southerners are portrayed as racist pigs, if the Civil War is believed to be about freeing slaves in a war against racism, then nobody has any tribe other than America where all races and religions are allowed equality. The problem with this, in a collapse rather than in times of plenty, is that tribes fracture from the nation state and do start to revert to type, hating and fearing other tribes. So while Washington DC might still be occupying and policing and taxing your area, in reality they only hold nominal power and the tribes run free most of the time. Free to terrorize you if you are from a foreign tribe. If you are still blindly waving a jingoistic flag of nationality and even refuse to see this reality you will eventually pay the price. Most likely in blood.

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

xenophobia 2

XENOPHOBIA FOR FUN AND PROFIT 2 of 3

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Political Correctness, or PC, is more than just an annoying hindrance impeding the acquisition of a college education. That crap is everywhere, ruining once marginally effective organizations. The military, corporations, campuses and Hollywood ( I was getting pretty excited about the Netflix show “House Of Cards“ when in one episode near the end of season two they had a bi-racial couple, a lesbian couple and what really made me vomit into my mouth, the main character having a threesome with the wife and MALE bodyguard. Ah, dude, friggin GROSS! ) and divorce courts are the obvious wreckages. The crap that the thought police come up with to distort and ignore reality is mind boggling. I won’t start a fifteen part series on the examples that abound, as it is sufficient to observe that the level of energy dedicated to ignoring the laws of physics would not happen without a reason ( and, no, the reason isn’t proving college students as well as graduates are mostly morons-something we all knew two hundred years ago when the Ivy League was catering to inbred blue bloods ). PC is just a cultural war dedicated to severing all ties to traditional organizations and safety nets and replacing it with a centralized government ( which benefits corporations, central banks, and the military along with the government ).

If you look at anything PC disapproves of, they all fall under the category of traditional values. Not in a narrow specific religious aspect but anything historically proven as a survival skill. The cultural traits that did little to nothing to please the individual but which proved a very strong glue to hold a group together. Child independence was not allowed, or extramarital sex, nor divorce in most cases for the simple reason that family cohesion was damaged by those actions. Marrying into an unapproved religion or tribe was prohibited to minimize conflict within the tribe and between other tribes ( if both separate tribes intermarry to avoid genetic damage, their cultural views must be similar to retain harmonious relations. Separate races marrying in this country was illegal as in our case skin color did denote another tribe and a separate culture. It still does, but PC tries to deny this fact ). Females prohibited from working made for a better family and a better marriage. Yes, the female was in effect forced into dependence. But no more than the male was forced into a lifetime of supporting both his immediate blood but also his inherited family line. That is what is known as responsibility, and it is the opposite of the reward coin. Today, after PC has indoctrinated all of us, we have no knowledge of anything other than reward.

And the price of that is we have no family and no tribe and no cultural or social survival skills, just central government dependence ( unsupportable and insanely debt ridden welfare programs are well worth the cost of the economy as the population is firmly under control and will not drag out the guillotine )( you might be wondering why Blacks, almost universally dependent on government welfare, are not as lacking in survival skills. The short answer is that they have not given up hate or tribe or ever embraced PC ). Whatever PC hates, embrace. Racism protects us against foreign cultures who would harm us ( Knock Out Game, anyone? ). Blacks firmly embrace racism and not only are they winning the war against Whites with a minority of the numbers, Whites are not even allowed to voice the fact the war already started. You had better be embracing closet racism as a survival trait. Continued next article.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

xenophobia 1

XENOPHOBIA FOR FUN AND PROFIT 1 of 3

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Xenophobia is the fear of foreigners. And of course we hate what we fear, which is the whole point. I’ve mentioned xenophobia before, as what most people actually are rather than the racists that they are accused of being. Words of course matter and just because you hate someone for being from the ghetto doesn’t mean it is because they are necessarily Black or Brown but because of their obnoxious and unacceptable behavior and attitudes. I’ll talk about that again, of course, but my end point I’m working towards is how xenophobia is a survival trait and how it would behoove you to accept it as such. Racism has gotten a pretty bad rap and that is rightly so. To hate someone just because they are the wrong skin color is kind of stupid and I hate stupid people because there are way more of them than we need around the planet as it is. Skin color has the main benefit of optimizing environmental conditions and is not really all that good of a tribal marker. Yet, skin pigmentation becomes a farce after migrations. A simple look at Vikings and Eskimos, two completely different colors living at the same longitudes, makes this pretty plain.

And to use skin color as a tribal marker doesn’t work very well externally because of forced genetic cross breeding of a conquered people ( internally, discrimination against the wrong color, even very negligible differences, does benefit selective breeding to remove the offending trait, social pressure reinforcing cultural preferences-not to mention underlying the blind acceptance factor ). All in all, there is very little reason for racism other than for a reinforcement of accepted cultural behavior, which is important enough as it is, but when that reason is absent it serves no purpose and is counterproductive. Racism has a purpose, as does xenophobia, but the Political Correctness forces trying to eradicate both are ill informed and even stupider than baseless racists. I’ll cover the danger political correctness places us in, how racism can be a benefit, then we’ll move on to the positives of xenophobia. Most of us already have these beneficial attitudes but they are buried and fought against, both because the cultural wars ( eradicating all cultural mores and insisting on personal sovereignty only insofar as being unable to police others actions in traditional values, but given shackles from moving from the PC paradigm. Political Correctness is, obviously, just a war on tribalism and not much more ) are being fought to keep us dependent on the centralized government and because few of us wish to become social outcasts and we program ourselves better than Maoist red brigades ever could.

A good guide in life is to assume the opposite of everything the powers that be tell you. Not that it is that easy, there are always subtleties involved. But it is a good starting point. Another good guide is that if any concept is complicated, that very complication benefits someone else rather than you. Cultural prejudices should be butt simple, binary, on or off. Once you start thinking why your tribe demands a certain behavior, you diminish the effectiveness of said behavior. Cultural behavior should be instinctual in order to benefit their practitioners. We’ll cover that, too. More next article.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

town advantages

TOWN ADVANTAGES

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Before, if you had asked me if there were any advantages to living in town, I would have looked around at my dusty country hovel, sneered at you and spat disgustingly at your feet and proclaimed my distain at your Yuppie Scum high dollar lifestyle. My primitive sad little homestead was paid off with a due of property taxes at $2 a month whereas you still were most likely kissing the ass of a landlord or banker but even if you were not your taxes on a modest home were still $100 a month. What advantages outside luxury and decadence? The only advantage I’ve come across yet was the ability to work a second job for prepping money and that is not even possible in my case because even if I quit writing tomorrow, saving a minimum of twenty hours a week ( mostly research rather than typing ), I’d still be so exhausted from my primary job that I’d have no energy to work another. The new truck at the food bank is not only extra work in and of itself ( keeping the bosses turd new and shiny ), but it was not long at all before every swinging cheese dingus on the donation route was trying to fill the larger truck up just as full as the much smaller one. It is at the point, regardless of how fit I am, that it is a race between the economy collapsing and forcing back donations or my body collapsing from the work load ( I don’t want to quit as lifting tons a day is good, paid for exercise-the problem is the weight just keeps increasing as I get older and I’m no Arnold ).

I’ve now lived in town with the new Old Lady for about seven months. It is actually very nice. The home is small but comfortable and she is not one to allow any problem to escalate. So the landlord chores around the place are simple and easy. Work is a half mile away rather than six. This is not an advantage as that was my cardio exercise which is needed but which is falling by the wayside slowly but surely ( see above ). The money situation is not much worse. The old Old Lady cost me nearly $100 ( it used to be $50-$75, but, of course, inflation ) in a monthly car rental, with extra cigarettes and booze thrown in to about equal my share of the rent/mortgage here in town. I pay a bit extra which delivers 24/7 electricity and Internet access, a convenience as far as my writing but certainly a disadvantage compared to my solar power set up as far as interruption potential ( I have a battery trickle charger in 120v left over from my generator days and plan on getting a battery for here in town. Just lights off an inverter will make the outages much nicer ).

And yes, the plan is still to stay here in town. I was pushing for an early mortgage pay-off to have a better financial situation here, thinking that in a economic downturn locally renters might be hard to come by, but it is insane the tax penalties you’d pay, switching from a business expense to income. So I could be moving pack to the B-POD sooner or later, reluctant girlfriend in tow ( the financial situation is fluid, so it is a fifty-fifty that happens ). I’m not really worried overly much with crime. With the high cost of living here a downturn would mean population leaves ( the cold weather would help boost them out as soon as they cut back on the gas or electric ) rather than stays and smolders socio-economically. Right now I’m living in a very small city rather than a large town, but it is still a rural town at heart and we don’t have minority crime issues. Goes the economy, crime will of course increase. But with our gun laws that should center around property crime rather than personal.

I can say town living is an improvement in lifestyle but a definite turn to the worse prepper-wise. More people on an overloaded electric grid. More people, period. More people mostly negates the advantages here in our particular building ( temperature stable basement, tree shaded for summer ). The river is about the same distance from both the city and country homes but of course here you will have crowds there. There is more fire danger here, more riot potential. But, of course, my general location is a far better place to face the collapse than most and so this is all relative. It is not as safe here in the city but more safe than most suburbs elsewhere. In summation, town is for lazy bastards, not preppers. And if your bug-out location is close, who cares. But don’t pretend it is for anything other than luxury and laziness.

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