“Only a fool would not recognize that, for good or ill, we are chained to our cities.”
B.S. You may be, but most of the folks in fly over country are not.
So, you are saying you are totally ready, today, to revert to a 19th Century method of living?
You have food on hand forever, can grow everything you need, can manually pump your own drinking water, and can hold off millions of starving and hostile city dwellers, forever?
A city in normal times is like a hornet’s nest, with one or two hornets flying and out that you can see from your picnic 100 feet away. We are talking about smashing the nest open, and seeing a thousand angry hornets coming out all at once.
Starving men can walk 100s of miles drinking ditch water and eating any dead meat they can find or they can make. Including people.
You’re all set for that, and think it won’t touch you?
What, do you live on top of a fortress mountain with a hundred years of MREs, a hand-pump well and a million bullets?
Most?
Amish; maybe.