UNEMPLOYED IN THE
APOCALYPSE
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You probably suffer from
hubris, the same as the American Empire itself.
It is institutionalized. It isn’t
really your fault, and I forgive you, so don’t beat yourself up about it. As I have detailed before, you are trying to
be the survivalist your grand pappy was.
And you can’t. That world doesn’t
exist anymore. Look at it this way. You really cannot go back to being a
hunter/gatherer. It is a superior
lifestyle in many ways ( health, spiritually, stress wise ), but all the butt
boys who threw seeds in the ground to gain a strategic advantage ( all about
the food, remember? ) screwed it up for everyone.
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Everywhere you try to go
back to for hunting will see your area either too populated, too exploited or
too friggin desolate. The Amazon indigs
are in a lush tropical ( cough, cough ) paradise, and suffer from animal
protein deficiency. It is only an area
of abundance if you are a rabbit. And
while you can find areas suitable for very small families to survive hunting
and gathering, it won’t scale up into tribes.
As soon as the oil age industrialized food system breaks down, your AO
will be stripped of edibles within days to weeks.
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So, since it would be
foolish to rely on hunting/gathering almost everywhere, you sigh tragically and
just accept that it isn’t a viable strategy ( and all of you eventually in a
feasible wilderness, if it happens, must militarily face the broccoli brigades
invading from elsewhere ). There is
still tons and oodles and gobs of advice out there on living hunter/gatherer as
a prep strategy, but this advice is deadly.
What strategy works for them ( trapping, wild edibles ), can indeed work
for you, but NOT you and a tribe, and there is its fundamental weakness. I know you have your steel cable snares
ready to go and don’t want to hear this, but there you are.
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Then there are those folks
who advised you that you can survive at a 19th century level of
industry. When this advice was given, it
was actually feasible. As a nation we
still had, mostly, an intact culture and a low population and abundant ore and energy. It would have been easy peasy to devolve back
to a cottage industry survival mode. But
then a couple of whores in Congress got together and decided to open up the
floodgates of little brown people, and it was all over but the crying. Asset stripping commenced.
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( this was followed up by
delinking to gold on our currency. It
wasn’t a BAD thing, as that was our only choice of kicking the can. We had limited gold but seemingly unlimited
Saudi oil. Then we followed that up by
selling our souls to the central bank, trading a lifetime of debt and servitude
for continued abundance. Or at least the
appearance of abundance. Look back at
the 80’s. What is the one defining
cultural characteristic? I submit it was
Form Over Function. We went Potemkin
Village, appearance of action over actual action. As long as the façade held up, we were
happy. It allowed us to think debt was
wealth ).
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Once we quasi-colonized
the former Soviet Union, Siberian oil allowed us to move from mining historical
ore concentrations to VERY diffuse ores.
Microscopic ores, in which tons more dirt and rock were processed for
the same ounce of ore, became normal with the application of ever more cheap
ass energy. Once we started doing that,
we could no longer live a coal powered 19th century lower tech
cottage industry lifestyle. And while we
COULD have duplicated that rather well by only smelting already processed ore
from industrial scrap, you still have that pesky issue of overpopulation.
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While I have no hate for
Mexicans, a culture I grew up next to ( not to mention the two Mexican wives ),
I acknowledge that we have surrendered our culture to them, along with the
Blacks and Bitches. There are simply too
many people here now, and in their haste to screw workers out of wages and
Whites out of their votes the elite still failed to notice that when you jack
up the cost of living through taxes and regulations even fertile Mexicans do
not breed enough to pay for seniors feeding at the trough. Simply, the Baby Boomers are STILL not paid
for through immigration. So now we have
two problems, rather than one.
Overpopulation AND not enough taxpayers.
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Although, to be fair,
immigration did provide the elite with what they actually wanted which was
another two generations of increased wealth.
That is over now, the benefits, and only the price tag remains. Over population is a two sided coin. For all the strategic gain and wealth
generation, you then get resource depletion.
Now, what does all this have to do with your grand pappy’s
survivalism? Past strategies are negated
by changing circumstances. A simple
concept most survivalists are seemingly unaware of, if conventional “wisdom” is
any indicator.
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You cannot return to
hunter/gathering, not as a group, due to overpopulation. You can’t return to a coal powered simple
industry economy due to resource depletion and overpopulation. That seems straightforward enough, once
explained. And yet, folks that might
agree with that see nothing wrong with trying to return to a 1950’s Leave It To
Beaver Cold War society. If you think
about most survivalism advice, it pretty much mirrors fifty to sixty year old
wisdom taught back then.
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Processed foods ( freeze
dried slop ), wiz-bang space age wonder weapons ( the M-16 ). Resource abundance logistics ( semi-auto
). And, importantly for our discussion
here, instant apocalypse and the ‘Murican Way Of Life. Most survivalists are seemingly planning on
employment until ready, preparedness wise, and a Soviet nuclear strike. They think unemployment won’t ever really
effect them ( there is the hubris part ) and debt won’t matter since one day
they’ll wake up and the infrastructure of the debt will have disappeared.
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Since everyone who trained
and worked hard could get a job for the last near eight decades, it must always
be so. And since debt has been good for
nearly fifty years, it must always be so.
I would like to throw a dead mouse in your punchbowl and suggest that
unemployment should factor into your plans far more importantly than guns or
FLIR scopes. Continued tomorrow.
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