From what I’ve seen, these shows go out of their way to film the most extreme and usually foolish “preppers” out there.
I especially liked the guy bragging up his “spooky” surveillance system that sends pictures to his cell phone. No mention of what happens when he has no cell signal.
While being in a big city isn’t the best place to survive, I’m not a big fan of running off to the wilderness. With all these people running off to the wilderness it won’t be wilderness for long. Also a lone survivalist is an easier target than a group. I prefer the middle ground of my tiny rural town with trusted friends and neighbors.
I think these shows are promoting a fantasy anyway. I’ve been hearing about the coming inner city riots for years now and they never happen. They were going to riot when the emergency manager took over in Detroit and nothing happened, they were going to riot when Detroit declared bankruptcy and it never happened.
I agree somewhat, but if you consider that most urban areas are at best a week-deep in supplies for their inhabitants, it is not a far stretch of the imagination to see that something as simple as an extended EBT malfunction, transportation malfunction could propel the 'entitlement' class among those inhabitants (likely a whole lot of them)to panic, attempt to stock up and then start rioting when that doesn't work.
We have already seen that Obama is more than willing to do awful things, just to get his way.
Small ones the flash mobs robberies and attacks are already happening and more and more frequently, even though many are not reported on. (That would be racist)
Once enough of them learn that they can get away with it the brakes will be off then.
It surprise me the numbers of FReepers who don’t see it coming. I was on a thread the other day were FReepers were talking about how it was not logical for these people to riot, And I asked:
“Did you ever hear of a riot that start by something that made sense?”
To many don’t seem to understand that you can’t use logic to determine what illogical people are going to do.
When we go to McDonalds and order Chicken Nuggets and they tell us they are out we tell them: “Well give me a Filet of Fish then” or we say “The I’ll take a Big Mac then.” These people call 9-1-1 or rant and rave and start a mini riot right there in the lobby. Is it logical to pick a car at random and surround it and pull people out and beat them? Is it logical to walk down the street and pick a person at random and shoot them or beat the hell out of them because you are bored or just needing some fun? Is it logical to drive over to the park and spray it with automactic gun fire and kill innocents in the process because you think someone there “dis’d” you?
People who do not wake up now and prepare for what’s coming will be the first to get hit. Between their Norlamcy Bias and lack of situationaly awarenes they will walk blindly right into it and won’t even know what hit them. While they are they are being beaten beaten and killed they will still be looking for the logic of what is happening to them.
This video from the 1977 NYC blackout shows how quickly the word ‘destroy,loot’goes out to inner city people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts85TH-jaD4&list=TLVxqCN4-9l2WUVgmHqj9g3H7Y-bFZ4W2W