Why we prep?

[shutter speed]

This post is probably in the wrong place but if it is im sure a mod can move it for me, please? and also im sure the subject may have been done to death. but here I think is the real reason I myself prep.Firstly we all have different scenario's in our heads. social unrest, pandemic, natural disaster, emp. etc etc. but in a world where everyone is after everything someone else has. the scenario we are prepping for if it happens will probably never end till the whole human race is gone and the only thing left is vermin which walks on two legs. we don't want to live our lives where every day is a new lesson in hiding. or in how to steal someone elses food and water. and shelter etc so what would be beneficial to any prepper or survivor to have to remain hidden for years on end?Times of crisis always bring natural leaders to the fore, but there are two types of natural leader. Adolf Hitler was a natural born leader ie he saw a need in the German people but sadly for them he exploited that need to what was ultimately his own goals. not the goals of the people he led. then we take people like Thomas Jefferson (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) the man was again a natural born leader who actually shunned the position of leadership. in favour of a man he deemed more worthy of the role. ( the only bad government is too much government was one of his quotes I believe. so in the long run I think the ultimate goal of a prepper is to learn from whatever happens and to live in the after math as a better and human being we none of us want to live our lives under tyranny be it from fear of attack by roving gangs of parasites or a new leader who uses his position and power to take care of himself. so I for one one am prepping not for disaster but for the rebuild of a humanity as a better and wiser species whats your take on this?

[SooBee]

I believe that information is the best form of prepping. It might well be that skills and knowledge in general will be all we are left with in whatever situation we meet. The rest comes second and keeps me gainfully occupied (instead of hanging round street corners looking like a zombie on speed).

[Stasher]

Tyranny is only possible when people are apathetic, or just look to a leader for guidance. IMHO in the (highly) unlikely event of TEOTWAWKI the people left will be battle hardened by their experiences and would not take kindly to a takeover. I can only speak for the stasher household, but if we had experienced TEOTWAWKI - and by some miracle survived - I know that reasonable behaviour towards anyone remotely tyrannical would not occur! Far from it!

It would be wonderful if as a species we could improve ourselves following armageddon, but I suspect we will revert to type and try and screw everything up again.

Having said all this, self reliance continues to be the stasher household goal and our prepping remains focused on that

[Kris369]

Personally im prepping to bug in for water/power blackout and local civil unrest. With a BOB for house fire/flooding/evac, personally anything larger then two weeks and it will be skills, knowledge, friends and a WILL to survive that will be required rather then preps, you can have the largest stockpile in the world but it will run out, be looted or have to be left behind if it really does Hit The Fan.

Happy prepping all. Kris

[nickdutch]

I thin it depends on what hits the fan. I was very concerned about possible economic collapse a while back, but that was primarily due to the media and the facts that i took on board (the word "fact" when it comes to media can be very flexible). Then I looked deeper and realised that maybe things weren't going to be as scary as I have previously thought. Sure I am cautious and want to "prepare" for short term unemployment and power cuts, possibly extreme weather as far as I can with my limited reserves and p*ss poor income, but as far as total destruction of society? Sure we had the riots that happened and were scary as heck, but they ended. Sure we have had lousy and terrifying weather, but that came to an end too and the clean up is happening and more infrastructure has been laid down to protect some regions of the land.

But what about the economy?

I stumbled on this recently:
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk ... itain.html

It sure does provide another perspective that can help us all to see things in a different light and to provide flesh on the bones on what moneyweek was trying to tell us.
Sure, nothing can rule out an economic collapse, but the information in that article does make it seem much less likely and it does seem much more likely that the smaller issues of dangerous extreme weather, bad health and unemployment are the things that could be seen as being more useful to prepare for.

[Hamradioop]

Interesting find Nick, I have always voiced the opinion that Thatcher was not good for the country, much to the disgust of the females in my life who think she was the Godess reincarnated. How any intelligent person can think that scrapping manufacturing is good for the country and selling off the gas electric and water companies to Europe is a good idea beats me. I always considered her to be the biggest Con woman of all time with that sell off, as we the people already owned them!!!!!

[Plymtom]

Like many I fell for Thatcher's spin on things, yet it all comes down to greed then and now, it was the unions going too far which made her so credible, as someone said recently the right and left cheek of the same arse

[Hamradioop]

Like many I fell for Thatcher's spin on things, yet it all comes down to greed then and now, it was the unions going too far which made her so credible, as someone said recently the right and left cheek of the same arse

[nickdutch]

Like many I fell for Thatcher's spin on things, yet it all comes down to greed then and now, it was the unions going too far which made her so credible, as someone said recently the right and left cheek of the same arse

Then I would hate someone to tell me where they think the lib dems fit into the picture

[Plymtom]

Like many I fell for Thatcher's spin on things, yet it all comes down to greed then and now, it was the unions going too far which made her so credible, as someone said recently the right and left cheek of the same arse

Then I would hate someone to tell me where they think the lib dems fit into the picture

You're laughing Nick so.. you already know