Country Boy Can Survive
https://youtu.be/3cQNkIrg-Tk
Used to be able to fix a car, before the algorithms took over.
Excellent summary on what is wrong with this country. We have become a nation of spoiled, shallow, ignorant children, who believe that our prosperity and security are absolute. The truth is it can all be gone in an instant and most people are totally unprepared.
Wonderful read...all true.
While Dr. Moss (the author) is up against some stiff competition (VDH, et al), that is one of the best essays EVER !
Truth therein.
It is a well written paean to country folk.
But...
In a complex technological society, most of those urban folks have jobs that contribute to our nation in complex ways. On the other hand, many have simply found ways to game the system.
Same deal in GA.
Hunting and fishing can support a few million people. To feed hundreds of millions, we need modern agriculture. Pesticides and fertilizer from modern plants are what have kept grain and meat prices down to the point that they take up 10% of our household budgets vs the 40% they did a century ago.
https://www.valuepenguin.com/how-much-we-spend-food
If you really want to see how the average liberal would fare living fending for themselves, living off the grid, watch a few episodes of “Naked and Afraid”.
Even the ones that claim to know all about hunting, fishing, trapping, building a fire, shelter, know nothing about it.
Most of them survive by drinking water and starving for 21 days.
I can only think of a couple that could survive long term if need be.
Most are dumbasses that don’t have a clue.
Hey! He’s talking about me! I moved to the State of Indiana 11 years ago...and do practically everything listed n the article!
Thanks for posting.
There’s also all kinds of game rules and laws and the rangers/LEOs that enforce them. Country boys, as well as city folk, still have to abide by the law.
Of course, a country who hunts in December and January will have more venison in the freezer than a city or country boy who doesn’t hunt.
But if push came to shove, and it was a choice between asking the government for food—without the promise of it— and starving, versus poaching, I would do the latter.
The deer that eat my vegetable garden and corn might be dinner, too. I’m intimately aware of their “out-of-season” habits, lays and runs.