Trapping Feral Pigs, And Other Parables Of Modern Life

Western Rifle Shooters Association ^ | October 25, 2012 | Matt Bracken

[Joe Brower]

All that comes to my mind is Shakespeare's words from Henry VIII, Act III, which John Jay also quoted in Federalist 2:

"Farewell! A long farewell, to all my greatness!"

[Psalm 144]

Thank you for some lucid objectivity this morning, to dilute the existential angst and despair of the formerly credulous.

[Travis McGee]

You are welcome. The key thing today is to recognize situations such as the feral hog trap, the buffalo jump etc, and move to a (relatively) safer area away from herds and traps generally.

The crashup is unavoidable. The key is to not be near any of the ground zeros.

[Travis McGee]

Now it’s time to work on securing our own little patches of sanity.

Get away from all stampeding lemmings and rat floods.

[Joe Brower]

GMTA, LT.

[Noumenon]

Sail away, Matt while you can. This is no place for free men and women now.

[zzeeman]

Great read, thanks for the ping!

Matt, are you familiar with this book: Strategic Relocation - Joel Skousen? I was planning to order a copy today, wondering if you have read it, any comments?

Thanks in advance!

[zzeeman]

This is no place for free men and women now.

That one sentence (sadly) sums it up quite well, doesn't it?

I must admit I didn't see this (election) result coming. I seemed to have lulled myself into a bit of false optimism in the past several months, at least to the degree that I thought there were enough fed up Americans that were willing to put this beyond the reach of fraud and manipulation. I guess I was very, very wrong about that. (Not that I had much hope that a different result would do much to change the fundamentals (or undo the damage that has already occurred), perhaps I was hoping for a bit of a “slow down” of sorts to give us a bit more breathing room to complete our maneuvers, so to speak!)

Good to see you Ward, unfortunately on such a grim day. How's the book coming along?

Hoping that you are yours are making the best of each day,

MikeZ

[Travis McGee]

That’s for sure.

[Travis McGee]

I haven’t read it, but it sounds great. I’m partial to buying a condo in Panama City.

[zzeeman]

I'll let you know what I think, maybe even attempt to post a “review” of sorts here on FR if warranted. Thanks again.

[Travis McGee]

(Panama, not Florida.)

[DuncanWaring]

Modern parables - like NNT’s Parable of the Turkey Farm.

[DuncanWaring]

Oops - I forgot that you’d mentioned the turkey farm in the original post.

“Never mind”.

[zzeeman]

(Panama, not Florida.)

Yeah, I kinda figured that's where you meant. I'm going to see if it is possible to find a “reasonable” place here in the US. My wife is talking about the possibility of actually leaving the country for the first time ever, not sure if I (or her, really) are ready for something that drastic at our early retirement age. If we were younger (and perhaps a bit more “adventurous”), becoming ex-pats would certainly be more readily entertained.

[DTogo]

Always thought-provoking (cause to re-examine plans) and educational (was not aware of the "Catastrophe at Smyrna," akin to 1923 post-quake and 1945 post-bombing fires in Tokyo).

And thanks for the re-Ping, missed it the first time around.

[Travis McGee]

[stephenjohnbanker]

” The national crackup is now unavoidable, and it will happen sooner rather than later.”

Yep

[TheOldLady]

Thank you for the ping again. I re-read your parables and conclusions in light of the cheater having stolen the election. I wouldn’t put one perfidious act past him, not a single one.

[little jeremiah]

Thank you this and all future pings. Just thinking I should re-read your trilogy.

Hub and I stayed up late talking and we both agreed the scenario in your trilogy or something like it is probably going to be unfolding in the near future.