athor-i-ty

ATHOR-I-TY

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note: JS of ID-got your letter.  Thank you much for the kind words.  Be cool.
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I’m by no means a nerd watching episodes of South Park over and over again.  I have the movie on DVD, and back in the day I had some “best of” collections of the show, probably on VHS tape ( long lost in a random move ) of which there was Hanky The Christmas Poo which was a classic.  And other than You-Tube clips I’ve never watched any more.  Jesus man, I’d be the world’s biggest dumbass to ever pay for cable TV, and that is were the show airs.  I know you’re used to my tirades against Rent and Cars being the nemesis of all frugalists everywhere, but you can safely add on Cable and Cell phones to that list also.  Never, ever, EVER pay for that crap if you can help it.  RC3: rent, cars, cable, cells.  I like that, pretty snazzy.  I’ll forget it by next week and never find it again in all my articles.  Did you recently read the Doomstead Diner Dude?  He was pretty hilarious, making fun of the Druid Dude for thinking people wanted to buy a book collection of all his ten years of blog articles.

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Most of our blog entries are rather topical, like a newspaper article series on the CIA causing the L.A. ghetto crack outbreak.  In a sense it is historical reporting and is always relevant, but in another sense he is correct that nobody has any interest in going through ten years of your old evolving yet to be current writing style.  It is a shame, almost, that blogs replaced newspapers.  A lot of top notch book worthy material goes ignored due to volume.  I’ll come back again and again to “A Century Of War”, the best paper book treatise ever on oil geopolitics, in my ever so humble opinion, but the authors library of  electronic writing is basically at my fingertips yet soundly ignored.  With the Internet, quantity does have a quality of its own but only in terms of diversity of resources.  From the consumers standpoint it can be highly educational.  From the authors viewpoint, it is a graveyard.  Now, I have no idea why we just took that detour, other than I wanted to for no good reason.  I was speaking of the cartoon South Park ( which has stayed fresh as social commentary long after the less than stellar attempts by others such as Family Guy or Simpsons ).  Even with never watching it, the few catchphrases you pick up even so are brilliant in their bumper sticker summation abilities.

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“Respect my athor-i-ty” was the fat kids attempts at leadership.  Don’t do as he said because he knew what he was doing, but because he was given authority.  To me, a classic encapsulation of a huge problem with how our society is run nowadays.  The idiots placed in charge by the Elite are complete morons and douches, unencumbered by intelligence or common sense, yet are expected to be blindly followed for the simple fact that they have been granted the athor-i-ty to be our leaders, we of the perceived unintelligence due to our social class.  Now, and I’m speaking to the guys here, think back on how all our tribal functions are performed.  Men are highly competitive, in all things big and small, and challenge each other constantly.  The winner is acknowledged as a de facto leader in whatever endeavor is being undertaken, gladly, by all, for his leadership has been established by token of demonstrated ability.  This is how tribal war leaders are chosen and hence how a lifetime of emulation in other matters reinforces and trains the tribe to be more successful and the survivors of conflict.

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( This is also why guys can fight and then become fast friends.  We are wired to desire demonstrated ability, even to the determent of our own aspirations.  Women are completely different, and also for very good survival reasons ).  Our current social construct attempts to train men to be women.  It undermines ability for the reinforcement of dominance by deceit ( again, this is NOT malicious.  Women are wired differently.  They all understand the deceit dominance game and all play it.  It is anything but cooperative, whereas men’s dominance game is ONLY cooperative.  One is not better or worse than the other, it simply just IS ).  It isn’t that women don’t desire demonstrated ability, it is just that the men want to reward the ability to perform a specific task and women want the ability to become a leader to be the only criteria.  And THAT, my fine feathered minions, is why women should not be in charge of war or corporations.  Not because they aren’t capable leaders, because they are, but because they can ONLY be leaders and not leaders of their profession first and organization second ( obviously this is all said using a broad brush.  It assumes you understand generalities ). 

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But look around you and nowhere is ability rewarded.  Only group consensus.  Group consensus should flow from demonstrated ability, not just from the ability to be a leader of anything.  That is what happens when you mix the sexes in the workplace.  Two diametrically opposed styles of organization being forced to co-exist.  So obviously, deceit usually wins over ability.  Welcome to Women’s Lib, Unintended Consequences edition.  Do you wonder how a Girly-Man organized military is getting their asses kicked by a bunch of ragheads?  Even setting aside our criminally deficient training in the wrong strategies and tactics.  Both the military and corporations went down the road to irrelevance long ago by becoming susceptible to the idiocy of mixing the sexes in work when they slowly but surely started leaning away from demonstrated ability towards book training which is far easier to game and manipulate ( a female professional specialty ).

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Which is a disease of centralization.  Elites, of either gender, are far better at being a leader rather than a doer.  They are professional leaders having no skill in engineering or the military arts or any specific task orientated job.  Their job is simply to lead.  So if they can’t demonstrate a skill in a profession, they must be given leadership positions by a higher athor-i-ty.  And you are expected to respect the position.  Full stop.  This is going to lead to rather interesting issues come the apocalypse. 

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ATHOR-I-TY 2

As we just discussed, the majority of police are educated in theory and hired on schooling rather than innate ability.  The high cost of education demands higher salaries, leading to understaffing.  The politics of the leadership is leadership without professional ability ( they are trained to lead, not to be police officers ) and since like always hires like, book smart idiots hire book smart idiots.  They don’t hire good cops.  This is an almost entire organization ( the exceptions are neutered ) which is only about demanding respect for their athor-i-ty.  They don’t want respect because of their abilities but because of the authority bestowed upon them ( I’d think it was too obvious to be needed to be stated, but I’ll stifle dissent by repeating the obvious.  I KNOW a government must to some degree insist on compliance under threat of force, but in a functional society compliance is near completely voluntary.  The more dysfunctional the society is, the more threat and force is necessary and the less voluntary is the compliance.  You should happily comply with the authorities because it is a fair and just system and everyone is better off by doing so, and you respect the peace officer because he is good at his job.  He EARNS the respect, he doesn’t demand it.  Welcome to “no way in Hell that is the case anymore” ).

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I could go on and on, evaluating the evolution of peace officers into law enforcement as part and parcel to the very system they oversaw demanding as such as it changed to the worse, but let’s just take this as a departure point.  The cops are mostly incompetent appointees and demand their authority be unquestionably acknowledged.  Come the collapse,  this viewpoint is a perfectly natural launch pad towards warlordism.  I’m not saying they will be successful in the long run, since war has a bizarre habit of penalizing incompetence ( all other factors being equal.  Don’t look too closely at current conflicts as resource control particularly skewed that ).  But they sure as hell will cause a lot of mischief in the short term.  I can see them as being a very annoying force in trying to appropriate resources very early on.  Just by acting on their own, you can imagine the chaos.  Deputy Dave lives in a walled community ( they ain’t paid chump change, and their trophy wives usually match their wages.  Between the two it should be easy to earn over $60k a year ).  Assuming he can’t link up with his buddies-say, he lives close to his beat on the end of a large county-he’ll assert his authority and deputize the security force and any residents with military experience and try to be in charge, starting with centralizing the armory AND the community kitchen supplies.  Goodbye to your ability to survive.  Goodbye your supplies.

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Officer Owen lives in your suburb and mostly lives in the new appropriated barracks by the police station, but keeps returning periodically to get reports from his appointed block captain to see how well everyone is cooperating.  He also takes away some more confiscated food and ammo.  He and his patrol buddies storm any house not cooperating, aided willingly or not by other residents.  Thanks for supplying your local law enforcement!  These bastards don’t belong in charge, or deserve material support, but they have ATHOR-I-TY.  So they are, until they aren’t by a better group of paramilitary.  As stated, these idiots will rarely survive the transition devolving from a centralized state.  Ability will bloodily reassert its primacy.  But will you be stuck in the middle of this conflict?  Groups are NOT your friend during the die-off.  Not unless they are formed prior and are competently vetted.  Ad hoc groups, such as your random neighbors? Well, see the above.

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Your group had better be able to not only stay away from legally mandated authority, not only fight them if needed, they certainly must have the ability to see through the ruse of granted authority.  I don’t think you can legitimately claim your potential group mates believe that.  Most folks just go along with the authority schtick.  It is much easier mentally.  Which is one of the reasons gang members will have initial success.  They can dismiss the claimed authority since they have personally lived through its misapplication.  Otherwise you are just a book learned Libertarian, no real world experience in the application of your perceived freedom.  You oppose on principle but in practice acknowledge the demanded authority.  If you don’t violently oppose, you consent.  Criminals by their nature have opposed in reality rather than in principle. 

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So, it is not only the authority figures you must fear, but all their little peons who gladly consent to their rule.  They are more of a threat.  Because it isn’t just that a warlord wants to take your stuff and kill you.  It is also about group cohesion.  If the group more willingly fights, fights consensually, they are far more dangerous.  Most cops think they deserve to lead, being given a mandate by authority, and most of their cannon fodder recognize the authority.  They are incompetent, both leadership and follower, which is why criminals will prevail over them long term, but they still pose a threat to you just from numbers and location.  Beware their existence and threat.  And keep in mind if you welcome a cop into your group for security specialist or law enforcement, most do keep that Athor-I-Ty delusion in the back of their heads.  They will most likely be the one to turn on you in a coup.  Remember that “mandate of heaven” deal.  Since big daddy government is now most peoples real religion, authority being granted is as a voice from God.  A infallible blessing of all behavior needed to complete that holy task.  Word to the wise.

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protect and invest

PROTECT AND INVEST

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The article on silver generated some comment.  Evidently there might actually be people out there that have serious money in the bank that they need to protect and invest.  I’m not exactly sure why I’m being asked, as I’d be hard pressed to recall a time I ever brought in too much more net than $600-$800 a month, but I suppose I’ll just be flattered.  And since I’m a guaranteed-to-collapse kind of survivalist writer, I’ll assume nobody is going to be all that surprised that I’m not going to drag out that raggedy ass old whore gold.  Look, we all love the idea of gold.  The Industrial Revolution fueled by the Oil Age allowed the peasants to actually own some of that King’s Currency, a historically odd event.  So were privately owned arms, which was never a Elite granted freedom as much as it was a tool allowing the peasants to clear the continent of pesky Indigenous personnel at their own risk ( after which the Elite moved in to the new safe zone and promptly enslaved those shock troops by a variety of means ), but I won’t dwell on that now.

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Gold is all well and good to transfer wealth to the other side of the Dark Age period, even though it has some benefits at any time.  But you don’t want to tie up too much of your wealth into gold.  Just enough to grubstake yourself if you lose everything, enough for emergencies.  Okay, really, enough in case other means of wealth preservation bite the big one, essentially.  You NEVER put all your eggs into one basket, be it prep supplies, wealth generation, wealth preservation or offspring ( you have more than one for obvious reasons, plus investments in extended family in case yours turns feral on you or are all killed ) or anything else.  I would no more invest all my wealth into gold than I would a business investment.  Diversification is obvious.  But you must diversify smart.  A guy today that invests in physical gold, stocks, bonds and rental apartments, he isn’t REALLY diversified.  Everything but the gold is reliant on our petroleum economy ( and even the gold is problematic as it will be an illiquid asset for some time ).   If you think paper investments are worth anything more than the toilet paper the quarterly report is printed, you are asking the wrong guy for advice.

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I can’t really tell you the ratio of investments you should be using.  I won’t tell you debt is bad, investment wise ( just for your personal possessions ).  You almost need a mortgage on rental property to avoid being raped tax wise.  Just assume any indebted asset is gone, lickity split at the first signs of trouble.  I would look at my investments in two categories ( remember, we are assuming all preps are done and doubled and really getting any more in counter-productive ), post collapse savings/investment and pre-collapse.  I assume you don’t think you can time the collapse.  I’d take and invest just enough pre-collapse to give you a minimum income ( rental income or similar ), with a minimum cash savings account ( buried, not banked ).  This is just your “in case nothing too bad happens” investment.  The post-collapse side is a minimum amount of gold-grubstake and emergencies-and the rest put into a post-collapse business.  Which leads to the question, what friggin business?  This is both easier and harder than you think.

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You can’t open any business that competes with a home cottage industry.  This isn’t a repeat of the beginning of the Industrial revolution.  You aren’t fighting against labor, and you can’t include volume as a business model.  Nor will government subsidize private profits.  You aren’t doing what people do slower, because resource constraints don’t allow for volume.  Lack of trade and colonialization and hence growth means you can’t have banks, which means you don’t need private companies.  In a Dark Age, government actually does the better job because it eliminates competition, which is wasteful by its nature ( just think of over fishing as an example.  Or when the king owns the forest, and there is no private company to bribe him for lumber rights, the land is conserved.  It will eventually be used, but strategically which is a benefit to all rather than the few ).  Capitalism requires surplus, it cannot operate otherwise.  You aren’t investing in a business for profit per se but survival and retaining your wealth in other ways. 

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Money is going to be a non-concern.  Whatever you have will transfer over to your liege.  That is how Dark Ages are ruled, government without money.  You will most likely be the guilds master, from your expertise.  Your investment in the structure of the industry is a means to that end, not capitalistic profit as you are imagining.  It keeps you out of the fields, crop fields or battle fields.  You are probably thinking, this blows, yo.  I’ll just hoard gold and be my own king.  Well, there you go thinking like a capitalist.  To a capitalist, money solves all problems.  But money is only good in times of surplus.  Granted, you need some precious metals for trade such as when you wanted metal ore or tin which you needed for weapons.  But in times without surplus, when money supply is strictly limited and hence its exchange, barter is more important for the majority of people.  And barter relied on force.  Land and people to farm is the majority of the economy and their small surplus of food is used to buy force for protection ( I understand the violently orthodox Libertarians disagree and call all monopoly of force coercion, but try surviving without its protection ).  Land and force are the wealth in the Dark Ages.

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Mercenaries were notoriously unreliable in their loyalty and or effectiveness.  Those that had a good reputation were prized.  You could easily buy a pig in the poke if you relied on gold to rent your force rather than buy it outright for a one time price ( your manufacturing concern ). 

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PROTECT AND INVEST 2

We return to the question of which business to invest in for your post-collapse wealth investment ( the gold investment being a smaller, more emergency and grubstake savings than income generator ).  Since most tasks can be handled by cottage industry, those few not of the household industry type ( once again women will generate true wealth, by manufacturing most things in the home and hence eliminating the need to buy anything.  Which is hard to do when you own no money ), you would be retarded to invest in any business that competes with those products.  That leaves you looking to the government as your customer.  And what they want is weapons.  Not equipment that the peasants can manufacture during the winter as part of their tax burden, such as leather gear, uniforms, tack, etc.  Something the peasants can’t make.  One good bet is any metal beyond the blacksmiths ability.  Which basically means a projectile weapon and its projectiles ( that gets problematic, though, as we’ll explore ).

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I know you want me to tell you that black powder weapons are a great investment.  And they might be, IF your surviving infrastructure can support them.  Remember, Dark Ages are a time after resources run out and trade collapses.  You don’t have enough surplus for most everything, and that just might include nitrates for your powder manufacture ( I surmise this is the reason the Chinese, despite inventing gunpowder, never had an adequate gunpowder military.  They lacked nitrate surpluses as they had already invested in overpopulation strategically and all the fertilizers went to crop production ).  Ignition is not an issue per se, as you can survive militarily on flintlock, but powder is mandatory.  And the need for volley fire is negated if you have modern manufacturing facilities for higher tolerance construction.  But you still must field the superior volume projectile army, and that takes a lot of powder regardless.  What you are doing is betting on logistics and strategy and tactics when you invest in your factory.

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This is the normal way you invest excess wealth.  You research and then bet on a trend.  The difference was that before you noticed the potential of a trend from historical data and invested and now you have no historical guideline.  It is devolution rather than evolution in military technology, really a first.  That makes this thought exercise rather tricky.  Let me give you an example by way of a popular Viking cable TV show ( I couldn’t watch more than a sampling, both series jettisoning common sense or any historical accuracy by bowing to PC forces and including Xena Princess Warrior elements into the plots ) ( you can get a better feel by reading Cornwell ).  The “shield wall” was your basic military tactic.  Two walls of men shielded by, well, shields, clashed and tried to find chinks in the armor, the objective being to caused a rift in the wall and hence its breaking.  Horse cavalry to break the wall were not used, one supposes due to their relative scarcity  from lack of surplus feed ( competing with people food ).

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Missile weapons also were not readily available it seems.  One supposes due to the easy defensibility ( every other shield in front or forming a roof ).  You had two options for defeating this unit, if horse is not available.  Another similar tactic or, in our case, gunpowder missiles ( which penetrate the shields, unlike arrows or perhaps bolts ).  But if you don’t have the surplus to feed horses, do you have enough to produce powder?  Once personal riflemen were effective, they still were not the battlefield decider.  They had to go from quality to quantity to overcome more primitive weapons defending against them.  Other than strategically irrelevant snipers, without volume of powder gunpowder missiles won’t win the field.  So think carefully before investing in the notion of gunpowder feasibility.  Crossbows might be the only reasonable mass missile strategy and then we are faced with needing a metal surplus.  Not necessary for the bow alone but the bolts.  Without volume there, you lose effectiveness ( this would be the type of volume encouraged and condoned, in our non-capitalistic economy ).

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It always comes down to surplus.  You need extra men or extra weapons, or both, and quantity will invariably outrun quality.  The defense against quality ( a few gunpowder weapons ) is inevitably quantity ( masses of troops using more primitive weapons.  The reason a Maxim gun slaughtered thousands of spear chuckers is because that gun fired tens of thousands of bullets.  A sniper alone would have been overwhelmed hastily.  Post-apocalypse you won’t have the ammunition to supply a Maxim ).  Military contests can be decided by quality on occasion but mostly quantity prevails ( how else could history be so full of dumbass generals if skill alone won over logistics? ).  Histories first major clash  of machineguns and trenches saw the Japanese victorious ( against the Russians ) only after they could continuously throw men at the guns, until the guns could no longer be supplied.  A lesson they forgot as they attacked the Americans.  All this a very convoluted way to decide the type of weapon you want to invest in financially post-apocalypse.

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I would place my bet on crossbows ( remember, bowyers, this is easily taught and is a far better penetrater than arrows ).  The volume construction factory machines can be primitive and cheap, as can the metal stock.  You could invest in black powder rifle factories ( hell, there is a company in Montana that builds replicas of the Sharp’s type carbines, down to their springs, so a smaller business could build replica breech loading flintlocks if they so desired ), but a much smaller investment ( if not sound strategic choice ) is needed for crossbows and might be far more feasible for this publications demographic ( po’ boys ).  I’ll be exploring crossbows further, hopefully soon.

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screwing grandpa

SCREWING GRANDPA

The work of “re-making” my older blog posts continues.  This was from five years ago and was on the three year old trend of Seniors having their COLA ( cost of living allowances, a 1970’s instituted inflation index ) slashed under the pretend rather than the real rate of inflation.  ObamaCare had just started gathering stem and it didn’t occur to me the insurance industry ( owned by the banker elite ) would be so brazen as to jack deductibles to nose bleed elevations so as to deny most everyone any coverage after mandatory coverage was instituted by the Kenyan King ( not that Trump seems to be in any hurry to change anything.  At all.  About anything.  The only reason I paid attention to the elections was to determine if I needed a nuclear fallout filter should Hilary be elected-otherwise you knew nothing was going to change ).  The time in which I wrote that article was when the 2009 nation wide main street real economic collapse was playing out.  All the local governments drastically cutting services, unemployment skyrocketing.

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And so Seniors were getting their COLA’s slashed to effectively zero and saw other benefits being cut.  Good times.  Don’t think they won’t happen again-don’t get complacent with the current interlude.  And I’ll admit, it was shocking we DID get a reprieve from that Collapse Lite.  It just doesn’t seem like that subject needs to be repeated.  If you are a Senior and are on Medicare and Social Security, and if you can’t see the writing on the wall AFTER being given a second chance to prepare, well, you deserve all the suffering you get, being too stupid to live ( a failing of most age groups today ).  Hoping the can gets kicked down the road isn’t a viable prep strategy, even if there always is a lot of that going around anyway.  No, let’s talk about not just gramps getting the shaft, but everyone.  It is tempting to take the attitude that “they’ll just hyperinflate and we’ll all get something, even if it is less”.  Is this your go-to prep plan?  It is hard to let go of the last near century of social contract, but should we?

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I think what ObamaCare should have taught us all was that things are changing in huge leaps now, rather than in increments.  We already knew worse things keep happening but I think subconsciously we expected the incremental part to continue as it has for the last fifty years.  ObamaCare should have been your canary in the coal mine. After a century of increased lifespans and medical advances,  in the blink of an eye you are told you have three choices.  Roll over to the age of the Death Panel fame and lose affordable government coverage, indenture yourself to a lifetime of debt for even the most minor procedures ( that they more often than not screw up anyway, or it has zero effect ), or be rich to get proper care.  I have few problems with that.  I’ll stay healthier staying out of the doctors clutches ( even the best will overmedicate, over prescribe unnecessary surgeries or guess-timate wrong on procedure to cover their ass with their insurance, or even subconsciously as they struggle to pay college and malpractice and other overhead ) and feel confident I’ll die LATER by staying poor.

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We have been taught that the poor die from lack of care but I’m making a personal bet the inverse is now true.  I won’t die from stress taking another job working solely for the taxman and the medical industry.  But all that is not the point.  Which is that our social contract was abruptly changed.  Working like a dog was always supposed to be rewarded, regardless of the  benefits that mixed and matched over time.  That is no longer the case, WAS no longer the case, but the end of medical care went beyond a work compensation.  It struck at the heart of the Industrial Age/Oil Age cultural construct which was we could live above the level of bare assed Third World savages.  Now, diseases assured to us of being eradicated are being allowed to fell us once again.  The only defense is to swear our fealty to our lord for the rest of our lives, and only then do we realize in exchange we receive the care of a quack bleeding us as a cure.  And the next time, as disease strikes us after the blood letting weakened us, we have no choice but to give up even more for another ineffectual cure.  Perhaps the second or third time you give up some more food, like some hopeless Pakistani peasant reducing his number of daily meals.

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Grandpa isn’t the only one being threatened ( starving on cat food or dying of heat from no AC, or a lack of enough heat in the winter, as he desperately tries to pay property tax and medical costs ).  We all are.  Only the rich have protection.  You scoff when I speak of Class Warfare, as you have been conditioned to, yet everywhere you look your life is in danger without money.  You ride a bike as a car is too expensive?  The driver that runs you over, if not drunk, is usually only guilty of misdemeanor behavior, even if you die.  That is how deep the car culture goes to root itself deep.  Can’t pay more in a year in property tax than what you bought your house for originally?  Homeless.  Wrong address on the SWAT team 3am raid ( which is never in the better neighborhoods )?  Sorry you’re dead, officers are immune to your sense of justice.  Justice which the rich can buy-just ask any banker that profited off the 2008 crash.

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I don’t scream shrilly out of a sense of being wronged.  That is just our world now.  What I implore you to understand is that far worse is coming and very quickly and for you to realize victim-hood is not a choice you get when the collapse is systematic.

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natural disaster bs

NATURAL DISASTER BS

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I do not care for natural disaster preparedness, Sam I Am.  I do not care for twisters or fires, tidal waves or especially attacking braves ( okay, my verse is suffering today, without my green eggs and ham ).  Yes, sure, preparing for natural disasters is a bonus when you get ready for civilization collapse, but what really chaps my ass is when natural disasters become the focus and justification for prepping.  By their very nature, that means you then only prepare short term.  And you see this all the time.  Prepper publications, so afraid of offending any damn buddy, their sphincter clenching at the PC thought crime, or far worse offending an advertiser who controls the purse strings, don’t even try to scare their readers ( when I first started publishing my paper mail ‘zine, I was trying to branch off into microfiche publishing.  There were a lot more used readers for sale cheap twenty years ago.  The people that I was going to pay to print the Army manual on improvised explosives refused to do so, claiming issues from the just then OK City bombing.  Since that time, I go out of my way to offend everyone in one way or another ).

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And I’m not talking about those Fear Porn sites like The Economic Collapse Blog.  They try to make an old granny crossing the street and stubbing her toe on the curb an indicator of the apocalypse.  I’m talking about NOT soft selling the potential problems out there.  Compared to even a ginormous earthquake, a systematic collapse is far more serious.  At least with an earthquake supplies will come in from elsewhere.  But all the pussy preppers are focused on the natural disasters as if they were the ONLY reason to prep.  Like with Glen Beck.  He only wants you to buy freeze dried foods to help out natural disaster victims.  The Yuppie Survival Scum sites think fracking oil is the new energy independence and that Obama or the UN trying to take your semi carbines is the worse that can happen.  Knowing there are less Europeans in the entire NATO contingent than there are minority gang members in L.A., I suppose there needs to be a giant tsunami coming to get you to buy a FLIR scope so the ad revenue doesn’t dry up.  Yes, I know I shouldn’t complain.  If you go to such sites, you know the Kool Aid you are expected to drink.  It still chaps my ass, however. 

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Lots of things chap my ass, or haven’t you noticed?  If nothing else, I rant and rave with the best of them.  Tired of hearing about that?  Tough offal.  If I didn’t hate, you wouldn’t have much to read here.  If you don’t hate, you accept the status quo.  If you don’t hate, you don’t fear.  Embrace the hate.  Just not the hate of an earthquake.  I mean, sure, if you want to move, fine.  Hate away.  I would indeed fear the New Madrid quake as a mean SOB liable to do far more damage than a target rich nuclear attack.  But that is why I don’t live there.  I live in a quake area, but the things will most likely stay minor.  We have flash floods, but that is nothing compared to the East and their excess rainfall flooding things.  It isn’t a hurricane.  Mostly I live where I do to avoid excess people, but an added bonus is the mild natural disasters.  But while living in Florida, I didn’t prep for hurricanes.  I did for Y2K, which was far more scary. 

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You shouldn’t move from California because The Big One will wipe out millions of people ( after the water infrastructure is ruined, let alone the roads ).  You should leave because a communist government will take all your earnings while disarming you and refusing you permission to arm or defend yourself, AND the place is butt hole to elbow neck deep in people.  And, just coincidentally, a big earthquake might kill them all.  Just the crowds and government should prompt you to exit quicker than is decent.  Which is what the Yuppie Scum guru’s tell you also, because it is good advice.  But that is their sole argument whether they include the quake or not.  My argument is that even if a quake never happens, the crowds will kill you.  And you can’t arm yourself, nor can you prepare adequately because of the taxation.  And the crowd will kill you because the energy crisis will make a desert full of millions without food or water a death trap.  If you JUST stopped at natural disasters or bad government, you’d think you could easily prep for that.  A few months of canned goods and big water tank, plus extra FLIR scopes ( FLIR scopes can be thought of as the holy grail of Yuppie Prepping, so they must be able to solve any problem ) and AR magazines.  But if you knew the system was almost at the Waterfall Collapse tip over point, you wouldn’t stay in Cali, would you?

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Focusing on natural disaster soft sells danger.  Not enough to get you to put off buying that scope, but enough to keep you in the rat race as a cubicle warrior.  In its own way, you have to admire the skill it took to achieve that balance.  Enough fear to consume expensive prepper items but not enough to give up your mega-urban corridor job.  If you were smart and believed in systematic collapse you’d take a huge pay cut, cut up all the credit cards and move to a small town.  Which a lot of you, my loyal minions, are.  But I wonder how many who read of the Tri-States are.  Natural disaster preparednous is a disservice to preppers everywhere, who are now living with a false sense of security.  Oh, I don’t believe the guru’s are stupid or evil.  But I do believe they believe their own bullspit.  No where near as bad, except for the end result.  Earthquakes, bite my dingus.

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WRONG MODEL

Now, if I veer off of topic and wish to discuss something barely pertinent to survivalism, I can do so with nary a trace of guilt.  If you don’t care for it, well, there is the next article a mere twelve hours later.  I obviously don’t make a habit of it but if it’s a topic I’m passionate about than that is what you get.  So today, I’d like to push back against minion suggested business models.  I’m not trying to be a dingus or be hateful.  If a reader takes the time to comment, or even more so e-mail, I take everything they say very seriously.  But that doesn’t mean I agree with them.  And when I don’t, I like to explain myself in minute detail so that they understand why I’m disagreeing.  And this is something you should all listen to because it can be applied to other areas of your life.  Indicative trends are always a good topic of discussion.  It isn’t JUST all about prepping for the apocalypse.  You have to get through all the trials and tribulations on the way there.  So, for instance, I believe the trend in substandard metal fasteners was actually a survivalist topic.

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First thing, you can’t always listen to the customer.   They don’t always know what they want, obviously.  How many times have you paged through a prepper site or magazine, barely paying attention to the trash lowest common denominator articles which have been rehashed for fifty years, that dead horse merely a reeking red smear by now, and been more attracted to a new product you had no idea existed?  Not just a New Mousetrap but a new product altogether.  That fire sparker that creates a spark by friction rather than a depletable magnesium rod?  That Aussie ( I think ) metal thermos that has a stove underneath so you brew a bottle of tea with some twigs, in a portable container.  There was an AR bayonet mount that went on one of those universal clamps ( much better to mount that, even if its effectiveness is questionable, than a flashlight, laser and twenty different other accessories ).  Those kinds of things.  Heck, if you offered me a non-gunsmithing solution to attaching a lanyard clip to a revolver ( other than a homemade loop attached to the trigger guard or on the neck of the grip ), and it was a $3 piece of material and you charged $30, I’d gladly buy it.  That is a piece of equipment I DO wish for, but have the rest of you considered it’s appeal?  Lanyards are one of the few military pieces of equipment-besides bayonets, obviously- that I wholeheartedly approve of.

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It is the business owners job to discover new products and let customers know about them.  Yet, most business owners are actually clueless.  Back when I was working and was in one of my periods where I was running out of ideas on what to invest my money in, I subscribed to a butt ton of gun magazines ( I responded to one super discount offer and the rest followed-I didn’t pay full price for any but Shotgun News-I refuse to call it by its new name, just a pet peeve-and that was a deal anyway ).  I’m still getting them even as I allow the subscriptions to lapse.  And I’m noticing that NOBODY has any new products.  When a new company comes out with an AR, the publications of course jump on it like the world just saw the Second Coming, but nobody is bringing out new anything.  Just tired retreads.  Really, we need ANOTHER plastic pistol?  Perhaps we do, and perhaps this company will innovate and offer the new and unique concept of an affordable quality product, but that is all I’m seeing.  New companies you need to gamble on.

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My point here is not that there is any new firearm system waiting to be invented.  There probably isn’t.  My point is that all the companies are just playing Me Too and offering nothing new.  They are just lemmings following one another.  So a company doesn’t necessarily know what customers want.  He might know what they DID want, in the past, but has no idea what they WILL want in the future.  Quentin Tarantino, modern movie genius, didn’t offer anything that Hollywood thought should be offered.  The creators of Seinfeld, one of THE funniest TV shows ever, had to fight every decision by their funding people to make the show they knew would be funny.  None of the experts in the business had any clue what constituted a new and improved product.  And, yes, I’m comparing my writing to some of the best in the moving picture industry.  At least as far as compared to my peers.  I might never be as funny as Seinfeld but I’m as good compared to any other doomer blog as Seinfeld was compared to other TV shows.  At least that is my humble opinion.

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You can’t do what everyone else is doing.  You aren’t supposed to be different for its own sake ( modern art might be “different”, but it is still crap ), but for the sake of being better.  I’m sure if I ask anyone, hey, should I write non-fiction in stream-of-consciousness, with run-on sentences, they would just call me a terrible writer.  Why don’t I write impersonally and professionally like everyone else?  To earn money, I should run blog ads, like everyone else ( you know why I don’t do that-it ruins your impartiality ).  To keep everyone’s interest, I should cover subjects like everyone else ( a rehash of Backwoods Home, a rehash of Yuppie Scum Survivalist Guides ).  Sure, there is some copying.  I need a lot of subject material.  But I try to cast a wide net, so at least I can minimize.  And readers, they tell you what THEY want to read.  That is as it should be, but it doesn’t help you the publisher satisfy all the other readers with differing tastes.  Even within very narrow niches, if you aren’t just preaching to the choir exclusively, taste vary. 

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Which is why I write what I’m passionate about, and trust I’ve found a group of readers who follow at least some of my likes.  How could you do it different if you want to stay different?  Don’t think I just ignore advice to the contrary.  I have plenty of blind spots I don’t even know I have.  Just that, in the end, Bison Publications International is trying to march to a different drummer.  And for good reason.

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COLLAPSE INTERUPTED

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When I originally wrote an article five years ago responding to a minion asking what I would do if no fast collapse ever occurred, I responding that even with no collapse I was quite happy with the decisions I had made.  Today, I’m even happier.  And yes, that is mainly because a fast collapse is WAY more obvious and assured and I’m all squared away prep wise, but also because in those five years my life has only gotten better because of the choices I had made, not in spite of them.  And those choices?  Basically, all I did differently was to go from living in a trailer in a park in town to living in a trailer on my own land.  That was the only change to my life.  I just had to decide to move to a place not as heavily regulated in zoning.  Yes, it turned out moving was more expensive than anticipated ( the Great Tire Fiasco ), and yes I couldn’t flush my turds anymore down the city sewer, and yes it was harder to keep warm.  But my rent went from $400 a month to $125 ( and my town rent total had been $15k so far with no end in sight while my land payment was done after $6k and change ).

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Yes, you didn’t get as many TV channels and you had to watch your power usage ( back then, a 30 watt solar panel went for 20% more than a 100 watt panel goes for now ).  And did I mention the winters were vile bastards when you have to budget your propane use?  But my point is that all I had to do was just take the plunge.  It wasn’t a matter of money or time or education.  I just had to grow a pair of balls and jump into the cold pool.  No more dipping a toe in.  And from that small change, my life has never been better.  Now, I was a bit blessed, more so than others, in that I ALWAYS hated motor vehicles.  I always despised the humpers.  The cost, mainly, but the dependence was always an issue.  From a very young age I understood that if I owned a car, financially it would always own me instead.  To me, NOT owning a car was a life improvement.  So I had no issue in not needing a car living out of town.  I had one for a time, as the BTN wife ( better than nothing ) wanted to go into town once a week to gamble and drink.  I didn’t care to pay for her idiocy but it did get her away from the four walls closing in, the cabin fever ( I had always biked to work as the truck got 4 mpg and a daily commute wasn‘t in the budget ). 

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Once she pulled her standard stunt of leaving me, staying with her daughter for months, then wanting us to get back together, I had the last laugh and got rid of the vehicle ( and installed front and back bike racks for water hauling ).  Now I had almost no monthly bills.  How could anyone NOT love that?  In 2014 when my hours went from 40 to 25 a week, I didn’t notice a thing other than I couldn’t buy prep supplies $100 at a time anymore but had to cut back slightly ( I already had the ammo cases I needed, the more expensive investments similar to those.  That is what panicking early gets you.  You can easily adapt and overcome ).  I already had the land paid off.  I only had the low cost of food ( wheat for breakfast and lunch, so groceries were dinner only.  The BTN usually drank her meals-which cost more than food, of course ), propane, bike parts and renting a car once a month, cigarettes and booze, and that was easy to cover on twenty hours a week.  No, I was far from happy with the wife, and the job was really starting to suck as the stupid bitch boss was getting more irrational and lazy, but I went with both for so long they were normal.

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Then, the final split with the ex, the BTN wife, and six months later I met the current, the New Old Lady.  For those guys afraid of moving off grid because they want a relationship and are rightfully paranoid no women wants them because of it, you’ll note that it isn’t where you live, it is the lack of a job that trips up such relationship efforts.  The NOL could care less I lived there.  She wasn’t going to EVER live there with me, until the apocalypse ( which was easy to promise since she didn’t really believe it was going to happen ), but she didn’t mind me moving in with her.  I was the one insisting on paying rent, as she is financially independent ( I’d feel like a slacker if I didn’t pay.  Now, I pay far less than when I had a paycheck, but I still contribute.  I’m also playing House Bitch to make up for it ).  I just helped out around the place, a set of muscles, shoveling snow and such.  I must say, the NOL is the best relationship I’ve ever had, bar none.  And we met as I was living off grid.

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So, in the last five years since I first wrote the article, I’ve vastly improved my relationship, vastly increased the level of preps I have, tripled-almost quadrupled-my cash savings, quit a increasingly crappy job and became a full time writer, which I love despite the financial aspect of it ( not the less money part which I don‘t care about but the now having to depend on the income part ), and all because I stopped paying rent or having a car.  If the waterfall collapse never happens, I am happy as can be, and if it does happen I’m more prepared than ever ( not that I believe I’ll survive, just that I’ve increased my odds of doing so ).  All this, too, can be yours if you just stop being a friggin pussy and quite insisting on living like a pampered princess.   Sure, you look all mall ninja tacticool with your FLIR mounted AR, but you are still a flaming pussy!  It is SOOO easy to shuck off the golden handcuffs ( and, as you’ll also note, you can have a nearby fully prepped bug out location while still wallowing in luxury in town, if at first you sacrifice for a short time.  How hard do you think this stuff is? ).

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COMPOSING ON COMPOST

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Back in the day, I wrote more than a few articles of disposing of your waste while living off grid.  I got a lot of minion complaints ( then, later, after I’m NOT talking about turds, I get minion complaints I’m not covering enough “country how-to’s”.  You can’t win ) because I guess it is better to talk about the best scopes for your AR than it is about your sewage.  I had to try a lot of different low cost methods, which made the discussion far more “interesting” than it had to be.  If I was a Yuppie Scum survivalist there would have been no other option than spending $1,000 on a Home Depot web site ordered compost toilet.  Which doesn’t necessarily work better than a $5 bucket except it appears more conventional and will probably keep Child Protective Services from taking your kids you drug out to the boonies ( kids don’t care-they live in the dirt happily ).  And that would have been the “cheap” option.  I love reading how Yuppie Scum think they can prep frugally-it is really quite hilarious.  Not so hilarious when I spend $5 on a Kindle book and it turns out they are full of crap and I wasted my money, but I still try to see the lighter side of their utter moronic retarded douche bag cluelessness.

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Human sewage is an easy problem.  It has its own compost pile.  That is about as complicated as it needs to be.  Keep the rain and bugs off of it and you eliminate other issues which might arise.  And urine is just like rain.  Don’t mix your solids with your liquids.  Urine diluted eight or ten to one, water to pee, makes a great fertilizer and doesn’t have the pathogenic issues that solids do.  It is just nitrate fertilizer ( if you aren’t using it for black powder manufacture, use for fertilizer ).  If you have a covered turd compost pile you eliminate most grossness factors ( besides the catching and hauling aspect ), and if you have a solar covered turd compost you eliminate the need to mix and aureate.  Dig a hole, throw in a decent size plastic trash can ( with a heavy duty trash bag inside if you want to cut down on odor absorption ) and cover the whole with a piece of glass.  Boom, solar composting toilet.

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Now, there are a few more details.  You’ll want to keep this sucker under glass at least a year after filling, to assure that all the little nasty bastards really are dead.  On cloudy and cold days the microbes lay dormant, reanimating as soon as the heat pick back up, so the process isn’t continuous.  That means you’ll need more than one hole dug.  And more than one plastic trash can.  Obviously, trash cans will be in short supply after Wal-Marts turn into charred ruins after the riots and after the last slow boat from China has ceased deliveries ( fun filled fact.  Container ships use “bunker fuel” which is a grade of petroleum UNDER asphalt.  The stuff is solid enough to walk on when unheated.  Polluting as hell, too.  Amazing someone figured out how to burn the stuff to propel huge ocean going vessels ), but the cans are just for use now to keep the appearance of your toilets sanitary should any humping county inspector show up.

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After the zoning police no longer appear, just fill the hole ( without a trash can ) and leave the glass over it unopened for two years and you should be just fine.  The difference between the compost toilet and an outhouse is that a composter is safer and doesn’t smell.  There is no need to use lime or suffer during its use.  It might fill up faster with the organic material additions and need to be moved more often, but you can use the toilet inside and transfer your waste.  No visits outside in the middle of winter and no flies buzzing around.  The hole doesn’t need to be so deep, either.  It is safer to use on human crops, should you choose ( I’d only use as a planter for a tree, rather than in the garden, but if needed…).  All you need to do is make sure you have dried material to use in a receptacle.  Dried leaves, sawdust, etc.  Fill the bottom of a five gallon plastic bucket with that, do your business ( remember, solids only ), sprinkle some more on top.  The bucket should have an unmovable seat built around and on top of the bucket.  The snap on seat for $20, made just for buckets, is easy and lasts a long time but it isn’t as comfortable as a permanent cabinet built around the bucket.  Nor as sightly.  Keep the sensibilities of the wife in mind.  Also remember that modern toilets are not as…conducive… to helping in the elimination process.  A bucket partially buried in the floor, still in a cabinet, or a foot rest raised quite a bit up, allows the position of the body to be more natural.  In other words, sitting in a chair is unnatural for the act of defecation.  The ass closer to the feet than the knees is much better.  So they say.

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Partially fill a bucket with dried organic material, fill, dump in the composter and leave undisturbed otherwise, then leave unopened a year after filling.  Make another spot to use in the meantime.  And that is about it.  I would suggest a plastic liner, if available, for the bucket.  Thrown away after every filling. It keeps the bucket smelling fresher.  The pee bucket?  Don’t take too long in between cleanings as the urine smell gets horrid.  And of course don’t fill too much before disposing of.  And don’t dump undiluted urine in the same spot or the smell will become a factor.  Now, on to the really easy solar toilet. Not composter, toilet.  I’d advise against using in a wet and rainy clime, obviously.  This is more of a Western use unit.  A piece of plywood for a platform, then two auto tires stacked on top of that.  Then a glass sheet over the tires.  Leave your turd in the middle and allow to dry.  Baked to a completely moisture-less lump.  Throw away somewhere relatively far away off walking trails.  Safe and non-stinky.  Leaving them unburied is better as it keeps them mostly dried out with no microbes brewing ( you’d probably want more than one turd oven for cold overcast weeks ).  I know there is methane manufacture, and is actually the best use of your turds, but I’m really not conversant on the building methods ( I don’t like the tire tube method as those aren’t long lasting.  Perhaps a sealed five gallon plastic bucket and a copper tube to a propane tank?  I’m not sure.  Perhaps a future article, but only if you are lucky ).

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