[durasell]

There’s self-reliance and then there’s self-reliance. I suspect the kind of self-reliance you mention can be equated with subsistence living using antique skill sets.

[reformedliberal]

I don’t know about Zevon, but subsistence with antique skill sets and antique tools, plus stored esentials, is precisely what we have been setting up for some time now. I know we are not alone.