I’m not the one claiming to have all the answers. That’s you. You guys just know there’s a disaster on the way and that you have the solution and that anyone who doesn’t follow your advice is a degerate fool. It’s the height of arrogance. I enjoyed the humbling you received when Y2K didn’t pan out. Unfortunately there’s no deadline for disaster this time — no clear opportunity to test your predictions — so we’re just going to have to put up with you for forever I guess.
My position is that the worst SHTF scenarios are so unlikely that it’s not worth preparing for. I’m talking about the total societal collapse scenarios. For smaller scale stuff, like say a regional weather disaster, you don’t need much more than a week or two of supplies, at worst, to get you through the acute phase.
This smaller scale prepping seems sensible to me as a practical matter. It also doesn’t require the arrogant, antisocial attitude that you see so often in the harder core preppers. Unfortunately it’s the hard core types who lead the movement and do a lot of the writing, and their attitude gets dispersed to even the smaller scale crowd.