Whitefang wrote:Our management in lowlands prepares folks to do preps for disaster, to keep panic under control.
There is lots of activity, army trucks...police vans with dark windows...crisis is near.
Okay:
About all writing is but talk no action, therefore a waste of time, including mine.
For that opinion out of my butt.....agree we are on our own, outnumbered and outgunned, see special forces and thier toys, sound and heat guns for mass control, martial law.
We are all on the same boat, no matter if you can read or write.
Sane thing to do is to have a backup plan just in case this collapse comes to your door, stay or go?
Prepare for war!!! How to stay warm and hide.
Wide awake, with respect, with fear and trust in yourself.
One can learn to sustain oneself in the forest, not a bad spot to weather any storm.
Just see that doomer movie "the road" , when hunger strikes....worst in us comes up.
Whitefang, rest assured that your worst fears will never be realized. What you posted here provides a good mix of common sense and emotional reaction. You are absolutely right that much writing and posting is a waste of time. I think that reading and learning in general are still highly valuable, since if everyone is correct, generally, about future circumstances, you'll wish you had spent time with resources abundant now. And the human brain is the most efficient and valuable thing you possess. So use it. Glean your information from sources offline, from books written and edited by somber, sober, and dispassionate observers.
Forget about "The Road". Forget Dmitry Orlov's pessimistic projections. Empty your mind of every fantasy, every movie, book, or otherwise imaginative invention. Question and learn and know what is front of your eyes every day, and you will have all the answers to your questions and fears that you will need.
I doubt the value of "prepping". There are lots of definitions of it. I basically see it this way: don't bother learning something now that you will have plenty of time to learn then. Now is the time to just maintain the daily discipline of developing yourself, physically and mentally.
For example, in the last 5 years, some of the people on this board bought guns and ammo and dug holes and filled them with food. But some invested and learned and trained. Today they can still obtain the guns and ammo and food and still dig holes.
But $1000 worth of food, after 5 years, is pretty much worthless, while the same money, invested, earned interest. See Maddog78 on how to make a bazillion dollars betting on the premises of energy use everyone agrees is prevalent. Energy prices were going up. One person used that information to dig a hole and fill it with food. The other person invested money and now has enough money to buy food and dig holes.
One person nervously awaited armageddon, and at the end of the period, had $1000 of food that was too old to eat. One person was not nervous, invested in what he believed would happen, and now has enough money to buy several caches of fresh food, with enough left over to reinvest.
One guy grew his wealth. One guy threw it away. These are the vagaries of Peak Oil so far. Eating each other is just a scary story.