Yes, I am sure that some are in a position to “bug out” and do reasonably well at it but many are just fantasizing. We can’t all escape to the country and live off the land. I know what “living off the land” involves and believe you me it is not a picnic. I started doing chores as soon as I was big enough to carry one piece of firewood at a time to fill the woodbox. I progressed to gathering the eggs and so on until I was walking behind a plow pulled by a draft horse while still in grade school, I think I was ten when I fist started plowing. By the time I was twelve or so I was expected to come home from school and go to work without needing much supervision and from the time I turned fifteen until I went from school to the Navy I cut the firewood by myself, my older brother had gone to work at a textile plant and didn’t help me any more. I milked the cow before school and again after school. I grew up in much the same way as my parents and grandparents had except that we had electricity and even a TV but the only plumbing was a cold water tap in the kitchen. We had no telephone. I don’t think very many people really want to live off the land these days. Only the young, healthy, tough minded and physically fit could even stand the physical strain.
—Only the young, healthy, tough minded and physically fit could even stand the physical strain.—
Imagine a few thousand watts of solar cells and/or wind and water power and battery operated farm equipment.
But you and I are in agreement. Sometimes the talk of us preppers reminds me of the scene in Gone With the Wind where the Southern Gentlemen are discussing what sport a war with the north would be. ‘Cept it wasn’t.