This brings up a parallel point that a couple of us discuss with some frequency.
Being players of the Fallout video games, we play in a nuke blasted scenario not unlike what would happen after a total collapse. It is course, a game. But is holds several solid truths.
One of them is that the average American today cannot start a fire without a match, much less do HAM/Morse code. They cannot build shelter. they would rip their own walls down to burn for fuel in the summer and freeze come winter...if they made it that long. In a Fallout/collapse scenario, that person is dead. Or he is sold/traded into slavery to the ferals/gangs for sex, work or food. (It’s people!)
My earlier joke about ordering pizza is exactly what many modern people would do. If the phone is dead, just go online. Never once thinking that the net is down too.
Most cannot cook, sew, do basic first aid/CPR, hate guns, have no experience with a knife, cannot use basic hand tools or know how to hunt or fish. No carpentry or mechanical/electrical skills outside plugging an HDMI cable into an HDMI socket.
My point? those that do have these skills will live. Perhaps even rule. In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
Yep, good points all.
Came across some lady a few months ago in a parking lot. Her electronic key lock entry button on her key ring no longer worked, she was locked out..Little battery probably dead...
She actually had called a tow truck for assistance. The tow driver had to show her she could use her key to physically unlock her door.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
Note: I have neither butchered a hog nor died gallantly. Otherwise, I meet the standard. I tend to like the sort of person who can do things - particularly if they are comfortable around firearms, (as almost all competent people are).
Thanks for the boost in my self esteem today.
I can cook, sew, know first aid, have guns and knife skills, fish, and can do most home repairs...
I never looked at that part of my preparation before. I think first of food, water and shelter.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
I think I’ll use that phrase - I like it.