Well the idea is you train yourself so you won’t have to do that.
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
I just wonder how many could accoplish half of what Our great great grand parents did? They managed to tame a continent with far less than the average person has today without prepping.
“...Well the idea is you train yourself so you won’t have to do that...”
I guess my point is that as far as I’m concerned, that’s for younger folks than me. I’d like to see some more grandkids, but other than that, I’ve accomplished all the things that are *extremely* important to me in life; maybe more than my share.
And I wouldn’t tolerate the ‘jack-booted-thugs’ either. My only goal then would be to see how many I could tag before they got me. If I just got one of the bastards, I’d die satisfied.
And you are right, our parents & grandparents generations make us all look like pathetic whiners. They were certainly made of heartier stock! But even when they were older, they reached a point where they knew they had done their part and it was time to slow down and let the next generation take over. I’m rapidly approaching that stage and I’ll welcome it.