I find it best to start with a really possible real world scenario. Flooding over a wide area, massive snow storm knocks out power for a week, etc. This tends to act like a filter letting you know who is of “like mind” without having to go full prepper on them.
I agree.
I live right on a fault line. I know what is going to happen, I just don’t know when. The odds are it won’t be in my lifetime but it is really not that expensive to be ready if you think it through. The folks who are preparing for complete societal collapse I can learn from but my focus is on two weeks after a 9.0 in California.