When I was a kid, we were all waiting for a modern future with jet packs, robots to do manual work, little to no disease etc.... Today, we are planning for a future where we have to survive like Mad Max. Do you think this is a sign of the times or just a collective fear that things can go really wrong? Just a thought.
When I was a kid, we thought about global thermonuclear war ... and where I was a kid, we knew we would not survive the first strike.
Of course, we also thought about robots and cured diseases and jet packs.
In the 1970s I had two steel drums packed with wheat, beans, rice, etc. sealed w/ a CO2 purge.
Lugged them around through several moves.
Finally sold the stuff when I moved to LA in 1982 because the apartment was too small.
Found out years later that Andropov seriously considered a nuke first strike on us in March 1982. Reagan sent him a memo that made Andropov and the Politburo have second thoughts, i.e., something like, “If you launch a nuclear war we will never stop bombing you until we cannot find any more Russians to kill”. God bless Ronnie!
Now I am better prepared with supplies. In addition, I have taken the most important step to survival: I have engaged my neighbors and we will act as a unit in the event of TEOTWAWKI.
To hell with “every man for himself”. A group will ALWAYS be more effective than some prepper hiding in the boonies, IMHO.