There’s someone in particular that keeps interjecting prepper/survivalist type stuff into my feed. For reference, I used to be much more interested in this topic, however towards the latter part of the 2000’s and into the 2010’s when that idiotic show Doomsday Preppers started to become dominant, the movement started to go mainstream, but in doing so it’s character changed, and not in a good way. I can wax poetic about the old days, but realistically the process of sub-cultural destruction followed the Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths model of destruction. In short, I was a Geek, and it was fun for a while when the MOPs showed up, and when the Sociopaths showed up, I was done, on to better things.
That said, ten years later, we live in a world that’s even more unsettled and uncertain than then, and I think it’s time to dig through the closets and pull out some old clothes and old ideas and see if they still fit.
The goal here is not to re-invigorate the prepper marketplace with new ideas, but rather to try to build something new from old components.