The Savage State
Hope this works...I am a newbie at posting...though been a lurker for many years.
Read more at Open Source Survival http://www.opensourcesurvival.com/?p=613
Thanks for the post. Good info
We all roll the dice. Nothing is written.
The country and western song says....A country boy can survive...buy spam, twinkies and lots of ammo...spam and twinkies will survive a nuclear attack and ammo will be more precious than gold...toilet paper and bourbon will make life easier....:O)
Thanks for the info. I just bought a tiny farm. Mainly because I rescue horses & I was tired of paying board on a barn. I decided to keep 3 & just buy a big old farm house. It is large enough to have all my adult kids move home with their kids if it comes to that. I have a huge garden which sadly I didn’t get planted this year. I have chickens & ducks. For NJ I got a deal. I am still near my ocean & can ride my horses to the bay. It is so peaceful here that I wish I had made the move years ago.
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You need to join with like minded people with similar morals and values, and learn to develop an almost Amish/Mennonite mindset and respect for each other and the land. I’m not saying convert to their way of religious life per se, though faith in God will surely be needed.
One can possess enough “stuff” to last for a while but in the end, other “people resources” are sure to be needed just like others are sure to need some of the skills one has as well.
The Savage State
I have been trying to teach vegetable gardening to people for the last 8 years and have finally given up. If you think when a disaster comes you can just throw some seeds into the ground and you will have enough vegetables to keep you alive.....then you need a reality check. It takes a lot more than that to feed even yourself for a full year....and most of the vegetables you will be eating won’t be the ones you like. Then there is the worry that if the worse happens and you have a garden you are going to have to defend it probably with your life.
What is TEOTWAWKI ?
TEOTWAWKI....the end of the world as we know it?
Yuppies will perish whether they live in the city or the country.
Country folks will survive as long as they have enough ammo to eliminate the hoards of scum coming to take our stuff.
I’d like to speak to anyone who claims that “if you’re East of the Big Muddy, you won’t survive”.
While you’re battling the hordes from the left coast and Mexico, I will be sitting on 120 acres with three springs and a river, backed up to roughly 82,000 acres of uninhabited woodlands, lakes, and streams. My driveway is a 22-mile dirt road, if you can find it. I can walk out my door in the morning and stock my freezer by nightfall.
While I believe that in many rural areas people will absolutely need to form communities to survive, the area to which I will bug out is so remote that it will likely never be found.