[Migraine]

If they prepped more and talked less, maybe nobody would notice them — and, isn’t that the idea?

I have a hunch that the best preppers are the ones no one knows about when the SHTF.

[JRandomFreeper]

If they prepped more and talked less, maybe nobody would notice them — and, isn’t that the idea?

No, it's not the idea. The idea is to encourage communities to prepare themselves for disasters.

I've never lived my life skulking around. This is the US. I'll speak up to educate those that are interested. Anyone doesn't like it can lump it.

/johnny

[spetznaz]

Exactly. A lot of these preppers are anything but. To be a real prepper no one should know about your activities apart from your spouse. Yet I see all these people advertising/boasting how prepared they are, how much food they have, the weaponry they possess, how they have moved from cash assets to gold and other precious metals that are in their possession, etc. Sheer stupidity, and such people do deserve mockery. I was reading the other week about some British chap who has stored enough canned food to last for months on end. He then has pictures of himself, the store with all the food, and the article gives his location. You tell me - if the shtf that place would be raided within the week, and even assuming he had weapons (big assumption since that was the UK, but let's assume he has enough guns to outfit a small revolution) there would simply be too many people for him to overcome. Some people imagine they would be Rambo, or like Heston's character in the Omega Man, but the truth is in real life numbers count (be it to suppress numerous enemies, have working protective shifts, or tackle other dangers like the fires that will be breaking out when the shtf).

Anyways, any person who says the extent of their preparation, and says it either constantly or with a way of being identified, is not a prepper. That person is just a sad soul striving for positive attention and confirmation. Like some nerd trying to show he has the latest Star Wars role playing game.

Real preppers remain largely anonymous, and more importantly do not provide identifying details that can enable people to locate them when things go down. Real preppers realize that the only way to survive will be a medley of two meta-principles: a) preparing in advanced (in all ways, e.g. having a stocked larder but remaining in suburbia, which will be a killzone, is myopic to put it mildly), and b) realizing that prepping in secrecy is mandatory to the plan having any chance of succeeding.

All the 'preppers' in those tv shows and magazine articles are not preppers. They are simply nerds in need of attention, and wholly deserving of any mockery they receive. They are basically a wannabe Paris Hilton, only without the sex tape.

[Quickgun]

True, and I am thinking..Maybe being ridiculed by the left on this issue is not so bad. It helps insure that most of them won’t prep.

[Figment]

“If they prepped more and talked less, maybe nobody would notice them — and, isn’t that the idea?

I have a hunch that the best preppers are the ones no one knows about when the SHTF.”

You nailed it.The loud mouths are doing nothing but making themselves a target when the shtf.

[higgmeister]

The funny thing to me is, my whole life has been a prep.

I grew up on a farm. I remember seeing my Father plowing behind a mule. I have eaten "road kill." If we hit a rabbit with the car on the way home, my Dad stopped the car and took it home for supper (I sometimes cleaned it). My oldest brother showed the rest of us how to make clay marbles and bake then on the tin roof of the outhouse. All of us kids would pick poke salad and take it home for Mom to cook for supper (only pick the tender top leaves). We picked wild plumbs and blackberries for a quick snack in the pasture almost every day. I liked to make sassafras tea from the tree's roots because it was so cool! I know that steeped sumac berries make a lemonade like drink. I helped butcher hogs and watched my dad and neighbors salt down and store bacon. I have many times watched my mother wring a chickens neck, and have done it myself a couple of times. I watched my Grandfather and Dad turn bull calves to steers and watched the dogs fight over the stones. I have known how to get water from the air since I was in seventh grade.

My Dad retired from GE as a Sr. Computer Systems Analyst but thought television and modern culture were a corrupting influence, therefore, he took the tubes out of the TV and moved us to the farm for a more valuable childhood exposure (the TV sat unused for six years).

I held a security clearance in the military and was taught World War and "cold war" secrets that have revealed to me how authority functions and chicanery thrives. I have worked in electronic telecommunications all my adult life. I know what EMP is and can do. I understand and effectively utilize step-by-step troubleshooting. I have experienced a myriad of things that have made my life one long survivalist prep.

Let society hate me. I don't need its love.

[Cobra64]

If they prepped more and talked less, maybe nobody would notice them — and, isn’t that the idea? I have a hunch that the best preppers are the ones no one knows about when the SHTF.

Bingo!