Syntyr wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:51 pm
The Annoyed Man wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:45 pm
RicoTX wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:46 pmMaybe everyone is just maintaining OPSEC.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the case. In ancient times, larger percentages of people survived social collapses because they naturally lived a conservation/prepping lifestyle anyway. Societies were never advanced enough to become substitutes for being prepared. That has changed gradually over the past thousand years, but increasingly drastically over the past 100 years or so. I don’t seriously expect that most people will be prepared at all.
TAM,
You are 1000% dead on. If EOTWAWKI hits I bet 90% of the people in most major cities would die off. They have become totally dependent on the government and the grocery store.
I would add, even if you’ve been preparing, you shouldn’t get complacent. I’ve done what I could with the resources I have, but I am nowhere
near fully ready, and it scares the hell out of me to think about what is still left to be done but I just don’t have the money for right now. I came to the preparedness mindset much later in life. It wasn’t until I was in my late 50s before I started
seriously preparing.
Some of the details of how far I’ve gotten are in that blog post of mine, but it’s lacking a MAJOR component, and that is land. I have plans to buy land, and I frequently check websites like LandsofTexas.com and LandsofAmerica.com to stay on top of prices and scout potential locations, but my ability to
buy the land depends on an inheritance that will be coming to me on the passing of my mother. It’s not like I’m “just waiting for her to die” (I’m not a savage, and I do love my mother...despite her being a committed democrat), but .... it’s a fact that I won’t have the funds to buy until she passes. She’s 94 years old now. She’s in relatively good health for that age, but she is declining more and more rapidly with each year. I don’t expect her to survive more than another 4-5 years at most. My share of her estate will be more than sufficient to buy and set up a rural retreat. But for now, it is strictly a waiting game, over which I have no power - and that scares the crap out of me.
My best advice for ANY young person today, besides learning a trade that will still have value when the collapse comes, is to begin a preparedness lifestyle NOW, while it is relatively painless, and developing the habits of someone who is always working to improve his or her survival picture. Baby steps, done over decades instead of years, can accumulate into quite a preparedness portfolio.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, "Those Who Remain"
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