Are you a prepper? (2 Viewers)

[Sun Wukong]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't want to survive an apocalypse.

Fighting everyday to protect the little supplies you have, all while you and your family slowly starve to death? No thanks. I'd rather be quickly vaporized by an H-Bomb.

That fantasy appeals to a lot of people but I think they would quickly find it isn't like they thought it would be.

Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" gives a pretty good example of how truly terrible it would be to live in that kind of world.

 

[Zack Lee]

That fantasy appeals to a lot of people but I think they would quickly find it isn't like they thought it would be.

Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" gives a pretty good example of how truly terrible it would be to live in that kind of world.

It is a fantasy I share too. In reality we will be trying to punk you out of all your oatmeal when the zombies come.

 

[Sun Wukong]

They can pry my oatmeal out of my cold, dead hands.

 

[jasonj]

If I were a prepper, I wouldn't be stockpiling tons of supplies in an underground bunker. I would be stockpiling supplies* in a sailboat so I could head off to a nice place in the tropics where tons of fruit was falling off the trees and the sea was full of fish for me to catch. My only hope is that the regular preppers don't catch on to my plan. I don't want those paranoid nutzos coming over and messing up the chill vibe on my island.




*mostly rum

 

[Goatman Saint]

Prepper I am not. Now because I live in an earthquake prone area I do keep certain things in a bit excess, water, canned food, stuff like that. But maybe a weeks worth at that. Just being smart.

 

[Zack Lee]

Prepper I am not. Now because I live in an earthquake prone area I do keep certain things in a bit excess, water, canned food, stuff like that. But maybe a weeks worth at that. Just being smart.

we can all sympathize with that. Come tropical time, we all get to become preppers Because if you don't, the store shelves will be empty.

 

[Krewe of Clyde's]

I am a half-*** prepper. I have enough stuff to get thru maybe a month, maybe a little less. Definitely no bunkers or masses of supplies. My main worry isn't asteroids, aliens, or zombies but just some plain ole civil disorder or natural disaster that might take a while for the authorities to get under control. A lot of non-doomsday events can disrupt things pretty well. I would rather have the things I need to get thru it as safely and comfortably as possible. If a true "doomsday" event occurs, we are all pretty much toast anyway whether you have an extra closet of supplies or a hundred grand survival bunker.

 

[Dre]

So I have decided I want a week's supply of food and an emergency backpack. But I want to figure out what people put in these...flashlight, compass, water, blanket? What else would you bring if it were time to head for the mountains?

 

[Firecross]

This whole zombie apocalypse thing is getting old.

On the real, if I were to go to someone's house and they had a bomb shelter and stock of assault rifles and canned goods to last for a decade, I would immediately know that that person was not on the same wavelength as me.

It's all cute to make the joke on the internet, but when did actually being crazy become socially acceptable?

In my opinion, it won't be some attack/virus event, it will be a more realistic event to cause the collapse. I give it 30 years, minimum before it happens if things continue on as it is and I'll explain why.

1. The Baby Boomers are going to be finishing up their careers and start their retirements over the next few years. This is lots or production that will be lost, this newer generation of people don't think the same way they did.

2. Men are taxed at such a ridiculous rate and are now starting to opt out of the workforce, 2nd level education and are on strike in terms of marriage. Men are pretty much refusing to work themselves to death like the older generations of the past did. This is the direct result of the marginalization of men and the result of mechanization. Men want to enjoy technology and leisure time more than ever now in days. Working 50-70 hrs a week will be the thing of a past as men refuse to be providers for families.

3. Men will continue to be marginalized with women controlling 51% of the electorate. This means women will continue employing identity politics and voting in candidates who will give them what they want. As college becomes more expensive, men don't have nearly the amount of help women do and on the flipside, men don't have affirmative action help to get jobs. This is why men are disappearing from the workforce.

4. Men are paying the western governments bills through the insane amount of taxes men pay as opposed to women. The state provides more for women than any single man could provide, this is the reason why there is a welfare mom epidemic. Women are not going to go back to men who simply cannot protect/provide as well as the state can. This means more taxes are required to keep this going. Unfortunately, men are starting to deprive the state of those taxes and will become far far worse as time goes on.

5. Eventually so many men will opt out the state simply won't be able to afford the welfare mom and huge amounts of government programs will be slashed. Unfortunately, by this time, it will be too late because the government is now in a catch 22. This is already been going on in Japan for more than a decade, the Japanese government STILL doesn't have a clue as to why either. In japan, 60% of all the Japanese men from 18-40 stopped marrying, stopped competing at the corporate ladder, the government is slowly being bankrupt. The government over there has been offering incentives to get married and the men are still refusing and opting out. These men are taking 30-35hr a week part time jobs, living alone with enough money to fund a videogame habit. In turn, that is less money for the Japanese government to tax should he have worked the traditional 50-70hr work week men have in the past.


6. The governments are in a catch 22. With women being the 51% of the majority of voters, they won't throw women under the bus by increasing the taxes women pay. The governments will continue to marginalize men even when it is men who pay the most money into the system which will result in a complete collapse that will eventually also happen, worldwide.

7. When the governments do go bankrupt from lack of taxation and how thirsty politicians have been at growing the government. Society will try to go back to the old model of men protecting and providing while trying to ignore the past 80 years(at this point) of marginalizing men.

Men will then flip the middle finger and thus, the completing the collapse.

My prediction, 2043 at the earliest if things continue on as they are as of now.

 

[parlorcitysaint]

Today, someone told me that they were a "prepper".

I thought they said "fluffer", so I was interested.

Momentarily.

 

[seandroog]

I have a hand cranked radio that powers my iPhone, just because when the world ends I wanna be jamming to some rockin toons!

 

[You]

Anyone who went through Katrina should understand the need to be prepared for Civil meltdown.

My recommendation is for anyone living along the coastal areas of the U.S prone to Hurricanes, GET PREPARED. Once the S hits the Fan, the cops aren't there to protect you. You are on your own. I had police tell me that to my face.

Since then, I've been doing what I can to be "prepared" for that type of civil meltdown.

I don't however, prepare for nuclear holocaust or zombies or Solar Flares etc.

 

[SharonT]

In my opinion, it won't be some attack/virus event, it will be a more realistic event to cause the collapse. I give it 30 years, minimum before it happens if things continue on as it is and I'll explain why.

1. The Baby Boomers are going to be finishing up their careers and start their retirements over the next few years. This is lots or production that will be lost, this newer generation of people don't think the same way they did.

2. Men are taxed at such a ridiculous rate and are now starting to opt out of the workforce, 2nd level education and are on strike in terms of marriage. Men are pretty much refusing to work themselves to death like the older generations of the past did. This is the direct result of the marginalization of men and the result of mechanization. Men want to enjoy technology and leisure time more than ever now in days. Working 50-70 hrs a week will be the thing of a past as men refuse to be providers for families.

3. Men will continue to be marginalized with women controlling 51% of the electorate. This means women will continue employing identity politics and voting in candidates who will give them what they want. As college becomes more expensive, men don't have nearly the amount of help women do and on the flipside, men don't have affirmative action help to get jobs. This is why men are disappearing from the workforce.

4. Men are paying the western governments bills through the insane amount of taxes men pay as opposed to women. The state provides more for women than any single man could provide, this is the reason why there is a welfare mom epidemic. Women are not going to go back to men who simply cannot protect/provide as well as the state can. This means more taxes are required to keep this going. Unfortunately, men are starting to deprive the state of those taxes and will become far far worse as time goes on.

5. Eventually so many men will opt out the state simply won't be able to afford the welfare mom and huge amounts of government programs will be slashed. Unfortunately, by this time, it will be too late because the government is now in a catch 22. This is already been going on in Japan for more than a decade, the Japanese government STILL doesn't have a clue as to why either. In japan, 60% of all the Japanese men from 18-40 stopped marrying, stopped competing at the corporate ladder, the government is slowly being bankrupt. The government over there has been offering incentives to get married and the men are still refusing and opting out. These men are taking 30-35hr a week part time jobs, living alone with enough money to fund a videogame habit. In turn, that is less money for the Japanese government to tax should he have worked the traditional 50-70hr work week men have in the past.


6. The governments are in a catch 22. With women being the 51% of the majority of voters, they won't throw women under the bus by increasing the taxes women pay. The governments will continue to marginalize men even when it is men who pay the most money into the system which will result in a complete collapse that will eventually also happen, worldwide.

7. When the governments do go bankrupt from lack of taxation and how thirsty politicians have been at growing the government. Society will try to go back to the old model of men protecting and providing while trying to ignore the past 80 years(at this point) of marginalizing men.

Men will then flip the middle finger and thus, the completing the collapse.

My prediction, 2043 at the earliest if things continue on as they are as of now.

I don't even know where to start with this, except to say I'm sorry you have had the life experiences to bring you to this point...

I'm sure another thread would be more appropriate, and I don't have the stats in front of me, but I've known plenty of women who've worked multiple jobs to provide for themselves and children. Not sure how that leads to world destruction...

 

[saintmdterps]

Not sure I would want to survive an apocalypse if it meant hanging around with preppers afterwards

My sentiments exactly. I'll confine my prepping to watching the occasional post-apocalyptic movie. The preppers I've met struck me as either loony or the type who were dumped on in school and now seek power and revenge.

I have a shotgun and .38 for your garden variety post-hurricane/natural disaster/civil insurrection temporary chaos

 

[Waymer]