Saturday, September 26, 2009

Iraq, Afghanistan, the Bailouts, Healthcare, and now Iran? So what's the strategy here? Bankrupt America and begin again after reorganization? Someone tell me how to play this: What happens when the world's largest debtor goes belly up? Barter and keep what you can hold by force? Neo-Feudalism? Quick! Join a gang? What Happens with the collapse comes?
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  1. Ed HunleySeptember 28, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    Mass social upheaval unlikely if social fabric remains largely intact. Forget "Road Warrior". Consider the Russian Collapse, The Great Depression and Post War Europe and Japan. Also consider how people live now in chronic poverty areas in US. In all cases people just try to get by as best they can in a relatively passive manner.

    Recommend that one QUIETLY stockpile food and other necessities. Mormons, as a manner of social policy, store enough food for a year. Practice based on historical memories of the need to withstand hard times they previously experienced. My parents, who grew up during the Depression, always kept a full larder.

    Note: while it will be very difficult to do, if the need actually comes, get rid of all your pets early on. If you can't do this, your are not really committed to survival and expect to be "rescued" by outsiders. Beloved pets will consume needed resources and will ultimately end up eating you. Perhaps a Pet Swap would be best. You can eat a neighbor's dog, and they can take your two cats and a can of baked beans.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    KEEP THE DOGS,CATS & HORSES.DOMESTICATED FOR A REASON.DOGS FOR THE HUNT,CATS FOR THE VERMIN & HORSES FOR TRANSPORT & WORK.OTHERWISE GOOD ADVICE.TRASH THE DESIGNER ANIMALS.
    SCOTT MCCART

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  3. EdleySeptember 28, 2009 at 7:13 PM

    Some forty or so years ago I was in a Back to Nature/Anti-materialist phase and was into studying, collecting and eating wild foods. Even now, I entertain a certain wisful (albeit misguided, I'm sure) affinity to return to a pre-industrial way of living; however, no Neo-Hippie lifestyle, but the real thing. Of course, the romance of the idea is much different from the rural reality. Needless to say I don't crave a post collapse life, but sometimes a fantasy can be an intellectual substitute for reality. Anyway, if anyone is interested check out the Foxfire Books, Euel Gibbins' works as well as those of Bradford Angier and maybe Mother Earth News, Whole Earth Catalogue if you can find one, plus any number of Amish supply cataloges.

    There is an intellectual link here to 19th Century Communiterian Societies both in UK and US. We all have heard of the Ammana Society and the Movers and the Shakers. Of course the Shakers got all the press because their furniture and baskets were of far superior quality. Who has heard of, much less seen, a Mover Chair? Sort of like the political imbalance between the Kurds and the Wheys. No one is calling for a Whey Homeland. I guess their society is just too fluid.

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  4. DianneNovember 20, 2009 at 6:37 AM

    I am fascinated by your blog, though I write little. Flash 55 Friday!

    every friday, compose a short story of 55 words - no more, no less. if you want to join in the fun and games and give it a try...post your story and report to the boss G-Man

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