[apillar]

Preppers have become their own worst enemy by becoming media whores. That is because prepping should be like fight club.

The first rule of prepping is you don't talk about prepping.

It seems like half the preppers out there want to scream the fact from the town square. Which is incredibly stupid for so many reasons too numerous to list.

Am I a prepper? What one of those nuts?!? I don't own as much as an extra can of soup and a BB Gun! (yep that's my story and I'm sticking too it!)

[Resolute Conservative]

Bingo, shut up already and stop going on tv.

[KarlInOhio]

I lost all my cans of freeze-dried food in a horrible fishing accident.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'll continue to encourage my neighbors to be prepared for emergencies, continue to warn them when severe weather is on the way, and continue to help in the neighborhood, when the inevitable damage occurs.

I'm in a position of not having a family living with me to be concerned about, and I certainly don't expect to live forever anyway, so I'll be danged if I'll skulk around in the shadows. I was born in this neighborhood, I figure I'll die here when the time comes.

/johnny

[nitzy]

I am not a "Prepper" but your logic is flawed.

If one was an effective evangelist for "prepping" and the S were to ever HTF, wouldn't you be better off?

I would rather live in a town, city, county, state, nation... with 15% who prepped than one which had 5% who prepped. That would just mean less takers to defend against.

[Pollster1]

The first rule of prepping is you don't talk about prepping.

As the lefties would say, a little nuance is important there. Kartographer, Marcella, and others here and elsewhere have done a lot of good by posting anonymously about preparedness, and I imagine some people in NJ are glad they listened to those posts. JRandomFreeper and others live in areas where there is enough support that they can make themselves and others safer by openly advocating for personal responsibility. I live in an area where I am almost as concerned about many of my rich but parasitic neighbors as I am about zombies from the city 20 miles away. Whether one should talk about Fight Club is an individual decision - I don't talk.