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Fernando Aguirre’s book had a BIG impact on me. As did his earlier internet printout, “Thoughts On Urban Survival.” I wrote a lot of my last 2 books with his concepts in mind and taken to heart.

I made everybody in my house read it at the time and to put it bluntly, it scared the crap out of us. Everybody here remembers it pretty well! It caused us to realize that most people with a survivalist mindset have a HUGE misconception when it comes to a likely devolution of a society in a first world nation. Too many people think it's going to happen suddenly and then they can all band together and start killing the enemy. Aguirre pointed out that in Argentina, the wost scenario (financially) occurred, but life slogged on...with the side effects being corruptness at all levels of government services coming to the surface and becoming the normal way of doing business, along with rampant crime, the shifting of black markets into grey markets, and other general nastiness that most people here in American simply don't consider.

His writing about the Argentinian financial collapse made us realize that too many people here in American have a romanticized and INCORRECT view of exactly how this nation is going to digress toward its end, and that's as bad as NOT being prepared at all!