Hawkcreek wrote:Ibon wrote: What I am also saying is allow this creative process to stand on its own feet, not to be anchored in the illusion that if TSHTF you can actually better your odds all that much.
That is one point that I totally disagree with.
I'm an old Marine, and we are taught from day one that proper training and preparation will affect your chances of survival in a cluster-f**k situation.
Individually, no one is guaranteed survival in a firefight. It is all about luck when the s**t starts flying. But the ones who are mentally and physically prepared, and who have taken care of their equipment and weapons, will have a much better chance than those who haven't.
If you don't prepare, you die easy.
It may just be my age, but I look at the world to come as a battle, not just a "accept whatever comes with an interested look on my face" type situation.
This was classic warrior rhetoric, no doubt with some merit, but I hear this kind of glory rhetoric being spewed far to often, not because of it's merit as you are stating it, but rather as an over arching justification to embrace survival mode. You may have marine training Hawkcreek just as I spent years deep in the wilderness doing canoe trips, some of which were 600km long, so yeah, I hear you. What I see often though is boredom using this kind of warror rhetoric to prop up this cartoon version of survival, me against the machine. When this is your justification good luck. Again my point is, have a passion for doing what you are doing for its own sake. If it's playing survival Rambo against a dysfunctional society then I want you to imagine for a moment living in a community of like minded folks. I would not want any part of it. We are here because we love it here, in this moment, now. not because of some survival issues we have with BAU.
Now tell me, what percentage of the doomstead dudes out there fill their heads with this kind of silly warrior rhetoric? How many are doing it because they deeply love the outdoors, nature, wilderness, or just the joy of tinkering with stuff McGuiver style. It goes without saying whose company I prefer.
Rodent in a hole mentality lies beneath alot of that Rambo rhetoric. Fear and distrust. I am not saying that's you, but it sure encompasses a big percentage of the survival genre these days.