Rightwing survivalists, in particular , are often motivated by paranoid, apocalyptic, and racist or conspiratorial beliefs. A massive doomsday industry caters to their fantasies with expensive survival supplies of questionable utility.
The preppers we encounter in popular culture are invariably the worst examples - religious or political zealots, eccentrics, middle-aged men suffering crises of masculinity, and, in the case of shows such as Doomsday Preppers, caricatures selected for entertainment value. But not all are gun and gear fetishists with delusions of grandeur ; many are apolitical or even leftwing.
Global warming, environmental degradation and anxiety about the Trump administration have spurred liberals and leftists into the fold. Websites such as ThePrepared offer useful, non-alarmist advice on disaster preparedness.
The more sophisticated practitioners have always understood that prepping is a matter of both individual and collective wellbeing. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormon church, operates a massive network of grain silos and food depots.
The system is vertically integrated, with food supplied by church-owned farms. All Mormons are also encouraged to maintain emergency stockpiles in their home — not only for their own sake, but to assist neighbors when a hurricane or flood strikes.
When disaster strikes, not if. The problem is that disasters always look like remote possibilities before they occur, and historical abstractions afterward. Even the coronavirus, as insurmountable as it seems, will eventually pass; we will return to normalcy, and then complacency, and maybe even go back to ridiculing preppers. We all saw how fast supplies flew off the shelves during the pandemic — not to mention the toilet paper. We will feel the effects of the pandemic for a long time to come.
The economy will take years to recover, and some people never will. But the preppers were always prepared. But are peppers crazy? The short answer is that some do go overboard and can probably be considered crazy.
But most preppers do it for understandable reasons. Of course, some preppers go beyond a simple emergency kit. These people sometimes built underground bunkers that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for the worst-case scenarios that may not even happen. Some preppers take it too far. To not step over the line of being a crazy prepper, you need to keep your reality in check.
A sign a person is over-prepping is overspending, over-stockpiling, or missing out on life. An example of taking prepping too far is this guy named Dr. He has not worked a day in 12 years because he is too busy getting ready for a terrorist attack. The part that takes it too far is using all of your income to prep and not having any form of income. You need to be able to sustain yourself now as well as after some kind of disaster. Another man, named Michael, is preparing for an overpopulated world.
He lives off the land, off the grid, and developed his own alarm system. He bought some bird feeders and uses the birds as alarms.
He spent over 2 decades learning different bird calls for this purpose. These calls could give the family 5 minutes to avoid any danger. I hope this is not some in the back door sales pitchbut. I keep 4 to 5 days food water for me and my direct family. Two words: Hurricane Michael. And I live in Seattle! And, yeah, I used to live in Florida, but not the panhandle. I have extra water in the garage. I have a bug out bag. I have a two week supply of food and energy food. I have a rifle and ammo and a pistol and ammo.
I have silver coins. All it would take in for N. Korea to explode an EMF bomb above our atmosphere and all hell will break loose.
No food, no transportation, no electricity. No credit cards. No nothing. I will only bug out as a last resort, but if I have to I am ready.
Of a less severe nature, the last 20 inch snow fall we had the streets were not plowed for 4 days. After the last ice storm there was no electricity for a week. I live near the New Madrid fault. If a mag 7 quake hits that, there will be a lot of unhappy folks where I live.
I do not intend to be all that unhappy as they will be. It absolutely amazes me that people are so incapable of taking care of themselves. They always expect the government to take care of them instead. When the hurricane hit the Carolinas, people had a week notice to prepare. Many did not and had to be rescued. There could come a time when rescue is not an option. Even today it surprises me that people still rely on law enforcement to protect them even when law enforcement is totally incapable of doing so.
The US legal system is a revolving door for criminals. In today out tomorrow. Good response. As with all things in life there are degrees to consider. Having 3 cats it makes it a little difficult to plan for a bug-out scenario. Will be longer the more time I have to prepare. If cats make you crazy, then time for me to join you in the asylum! Pets, young children, and elderly parents are all reasons why hunkering down is usually better than bugging out.
A friend of mine had to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina. By the time she was allowed back, her apartment building, which was undamaged by wind or water, had been stripped clean by looters.
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