Posted on 04/25/2010 6:12:40 PM PDT by Packer Pete
Due to popular request, here are two videos on YouTube, 10 minutes each, that explain the basic concepts of Shrugging Out, and answers the most common questions asked about it.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byiwO8wEXU4
Part 2: http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/woADkAkJKG0/default.jpg
In a nutshell, Shrugging Out is a combination of Atlas Shrugged and Modern Survivalism. Shrugging out means shrinking your contributions to the Dependency Culture in America, cutting them to as close to zero as you can, and achieving independence from it. At the same time while you are "shrugging out", you are also preparing yourself and your family for the coming crash of the Dependency Culture, so that you can survive it and help rebuild an America ready to rededicate itself to the original founding principles.
Many thanks for listening and/or watching. Comments most welcome.
Sorry, I don’t know how to do links in original posts. Here are the links (I hope):
Part 1 (episode 12): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byiwO8wEXU4
Part 2 (episode 13): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woADkAkJKG0
Also, here is a link to the blog with all the audio podcasts: http://shruggingout.blogspot.com/
Shrugging out = starving the monkeys. They need us more than we need them...
interesting.
Shrugging out, as the author calls it, is about accelerating the crash as individuals, in any way you can. However, the numbers don’t support the cause; it will not be a mass movement, because it’s hard.
The best benefit of it to massively reduce your personal overhead and exposure to the oncoming crap-storm.
Subscribed to. Thanks!
bttt
May the road rise to meet you, as well. Thanks for that; beautiful!
Hmm, thought this was called “going Galt”?
The author of Starving the Monkeys (Tom Baugh) sent me his book a while back. I am about halfway through it. Will talk about it on a future show. It is an interesting read from a smart and fascinating guy. Thought-provoking and polarizing.
Raymann, I’ve heard that too, but didn’t remember it until after I’d named the podcast.
Probably would still call it the same thing, as I was going for the link with modern survivalism, where they talk about “bugging out”, hence the term “shrugging out”.
In reading STM, the author assigns many tasks and additional study which serves as the back story for his analysis of history, religion, politics and current events.
Tom Baugh has a fertile mind, and his conclusions are not to be trifled at. The monkeys exert a lot of influence over the masses, their natural allies, to turn them against the individualists.
Read about the suckers, cheaters and grudgers for reference.
Excellent idea. This is similar to what Dr. Helen Smith (married to Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds) speaks about on PJTV; she calls it “going Galt.”
Re food:
You can get a supply of food (2 weeks, a month, 6 months and a year) at www.efoodsdirect.com. They will send you free samples (you pay shipping) on request. I found the quality excellent. They can also store the food for you if you cannot store it at home. According to recent radio advertising, eFoodsDirect will now also send “non-hybrid” seeds along with certain orders. Check the website www.efoodsdirect.com.
Re energy:
Can’t vouch for the product personally yet, but I’ve found this on WND:
You may already have seen my earlier link to J. J. Luna’s online book from 2000 titled “How to Be Invisible.” The 2004 version is still available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.
http://www.canaryislandspress.com/media/HTBI2000.pdf
In a reply to an e-mail I sent him, Luna was adamant: no first name; no last name; absolutely no social security number. Separate the address at which you receive mail from the address where you live. This last is actually the first step to “getting off the grid.”
His book, it seems, is not so much about being a survivalist and living away from modern society; but, rather, how to live more or less “invisibly” within existing modern society.
Anyway, it’s worth checking out, and he does reply to questions if you e-mail him at the address listed on his website (canaryislandspress.com).
I do find intriguing, however, Ferron’s mentioning of a “community of likeminded individuals” with whom one can trade, associate, etc. Galt’s Gulch. But outside of the digital domain — blogs, etc. — where is it?
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