RE: Survivalist conspiracy crap.....
January 13, 2019 at 1:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2019 at 1:14 pm by Yonadav.)
I'm a little disappointed that this discussion turns out to only be about 'the rapture'. I was expecting survivalist conspiracy theories. You know, because that is what was promised in the title.
Personally, I have found survivalists and preppers to be rather entertaining. A whole bunch of them are not religious. I have known business executives in Chicago who were preppers and kept a bugout bag in their home, and a plan for where they were going to go if 'shit hit the fan'. I've known tons of pot smoking hippies who were preppers. And of course there are white supremacists who believe that shit is going to hit the fan and they are prepping to survive it and they intend to establish their white world order afterwards. They have various strategies for survival, and they have various theories about what is going to cause shit to hit the fan.
For example, a bunch of pot smoking hippies on the Big Island of Hawaii are rather enthusiastic about their prospect for survival after a world economic collapse that is going to be virtually apocalyptic. I have not been able to follow their reasoning about what they think is going to cause such a catastrophic failure. They have a passionate hatred for money (although they are always interested in whether I have any), and they just really seem to believe that money is going to fail catastrophically.
I am a fan of survival strategies because they are so damned entertaining. They have an enormous amount of thought put in to them while at the same time not being very well thought out. In my opinion, surviving shit hitting the fan would be far more about cooperation than hunkering down in isolation. It is sort of like those post-apocalyptic movies and novels where the survivors live primarily by scavenging for years after shit hits the fan. That's not possible. All food is going to be scavenged within weeks of food production shutting down. If you don't get food production started up almost immediately after food production stops, your chances are not very good. That pretty much requires collaboration.
We are extremely dependent on modern technology. The survivalists aren't completely wrong about how tenuous our grasp on modern infrastructure might be. I can imagine a few possible scenarios that would lay waste to it which don't entail nuclear annihilation. But without knowing what the nature of the shit is that might hit the fan, it is sort of hard for an individual to prep. A plague could cause shit to hit the fan, but I think that it would vector out and survivors would pretty easily manage to at least restore a 1950s level of civilization. Cyber warfare could do that too, I think. A nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India would rack up an extremely high worldwide death toll. An AI attack is not completely unrealistic, and I am sort of a fan of the AI scenario in which the AI is way, way better at code than we are, and permanently blocks us from using electronic technology.
Personally, I have found survivalists and preppers to be rather entertaining. A whole bunch of them are not religious. I have known business executives in Chicago who were preppers and kept a bugout bag in their home, and a plan for where they were going to go if 'shit hit the fan'. I've known tons of pot smoking hippies who were preppers. And of course there are white supremacists who believe that shit is going to hit the fan and they are prepping to survive it and they intend to establish their white world order afterwards. They have various strategies for survival, and they have various theories about what is going to cause shit to hit the fan.
For example, a bunch of pot smoking hippies on the Big Island of Hawaii are rather enthusiastic about their prospect for survival after a world economic collapse that is going to be virtually apocalyptic. I have not been able to follow their reasoning about what they think is going to cause such a catastrophic failure. They have a passionate hatred for money (although they are always interested in whether I have any), and they just really seem to believe that money is going to fail catastrophically.
I am a fan of survival strategies because they are so damned entertaining. They have an enormous amount of thought put in to them while at the same time not being very well thought out. In my opinion, surviving shit hitting the fan would be far more about cooperation than hunkering down in isolation. It is sort of like those post-apocalyptic movies and novels where the survivors live primarily by scavenging for years after shit hits the fan. That's not possible. All food is going to be scavenged within weeks of food production shutting down. If you don't get food production started up almost immediately after food production stops, your chances are not very good. That pretty much requires collaboration.
We are extremely dependent on modern technology. The survivalists aren't completely wrong about how tenuous our grasp on modern infrastructure might be. I can imagine a few possible scenarios that would lay waste to it which don't entail nuclear annihilation. But without knowing what the nature of the shit is that might hit the fan, it is sort of hard for an individual to prep. A plague could cause shit to hit the fan, but I think that it would vector out and survivors would pretty easily manage to at least restore a 1950s level of civilization. Cyber warfare could do that too, I think. A nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India would rack up an extremely high worldwide death toll. An AI attack is not completely unrealistic, and I am sort of a fan of the AI scenario in which the AI is way, way better at code than we are, and permanently blocks us from using electronic technology.
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