Posted on 01/24/2017 10:09:44 AM PST by pabianice
Just out of curiosity: Does anyone ever get the New Yorker cartoons? Either they are to nuanced for me or they are simply the essence of banality.
Do they really want to survive and emerge in a world where they’ll have to do their own cooking and laundry?
In the end, the rich are no safer than the rest of us. They just die in a different time and place.
As it is said, he who dies with the most toys, still dies.
The definition of "living hell".
I read that article early this morning. The first thing I noticed was that these ultra-liberal rich folks were planning on escaping the “urban folks”. They are buying up areas as far away from their urban pets as they can get. If they loved their urbans as much as they claim to love them, why wouldn’t they be unafraid to survive the apocalypse with them? Instead, they are planning their safe-havens in deplorable zones. Hypocrites.
All of them need to read A Canticle for Leibowitz.
The emerging elite never made it past the howling mobs who blamed them for the apocalypse.
[Just out of curiosity: Does anyone ever get the New Yorker cartoons? Either they are to nuanced for me or they are simply the essence of banality.]
Well, there was the guy at the Complaint Desk saying “I wish I were taller”.
Cosmo Kramer had his own addition.
What do they know that the rest of don’t?
They don’t know anything.
We know life skills.
Guess which group survives.
A vorshteen?
What I am asking is why are the elite preparing for doomsday? Do they have inside intel about a time in the near-future when the country and/or the world goes into absolute freefall?
What doomsday event or scenario are they preparing for?
Are you serious?
They are preparing just like anyone with any brains would. No need to have any "inside intel." The signs are obvious.
Regards,
It does alarm me a little as a rural dweller to envision a small swarm of the highly privileged bringing their problems with them as they descend upon remote luxury ranches and expect to ride it all out. That's likely to get ugly, and not in the way of zombie hordes, but in the way of someone who can't wire a light switch finding out that the maintenance man is 2000 miles away and dead.
But it's good to have a hole, I guess, even if it's only for the peace of mind. It's better to have skills and practical plans, one of which is not to trust that you'll have enough infrastructure left to fly a private aircraft to New Zealand when the mobs are filling the streets in Manhattan or San Jose. A hedge fund manager on a motorcycle with an AR he doesn't know how to use trying to make it across broken country to a cabin in the sticks is only slightly more practical. It's funnier, though.
There are many scenarios. Pick one.
Whatever it is says go deep underground, and that central South America as well as New Zealand are good for hidey-holes, isolated southern hemisphere. Sounds like an external existential threat to me.
“Do they really want to survive and emerge in a world where they’ll have to do their own cooking and laundry?”
Actually, they will be doing the cooking and laundry for the security team. How do they imagine that they will keep control of hard guys with guns?
Moving to a missile silo as prep is making a kind of strange bet. We know once the silos were targeted by multiple warheads, generally first strike ones trying to knock out the retaliation force. And these folks are better all those missiles will get different targets if something bad happens. Seems to me kind of the opposite of prepping.
Yep, those bank accounts are all a facade.
Nobody will be spared come doomsday.
from The New Yorker Magazine (Urban Yuppie ?) :
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
Aside from some pretty ridiculous scenarios, and flight lans to New Zealand,
there are some good nuggets of information and preparation buried within this article.
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