It just occurred to me that preppers are part of the same right wing machine that lead to the current catastrophe in the US.
As a leftist with a prepper mentality, this is not blanket true. But many preppers are, in fact, just exceptionally dramatic right wingers as you imply, so I’ll give you half a point.
Also a left-winger who has adopted some prepping mentality and created a “go-bag.”
In my opinion, “proper” prepping is/should be more about educating oneself, i.e. basic survival skills, navigational skills, how to find food and drinkable water, and if possible how to grow your own food and build a shelter — in essence boy scout stuff.
Once you know about the basics of survival, acquiring some essential tools (think axe, water purification tablets, and fire starter), and creating a rendezvous point with your loved ones is all that’s left.
The, usually right-winger, “preppers” are in reality just apocalypse fetishists. They buy MREs in bulk, create basements to bug-out in, and buy a stockpile of guns as if the concept of “community” will no longer exist in collapse scenario. They alienate everyone around them and focus entirely on the survival of their nuclear family with the insane belief that they could survive in a bunker under their home until chaos blows over.
I prep. Did you just call me MAGA?
Do it again and I’ll hit you with my bong
Better prep a bowl. It’s about to get real.
They prepared the catastrophe.
Prepping is a fad popularized by the zombie movie wave of the 2000s.
99% of “societal collapse” scenarios are going to be like 1946 Germany or 1989 Soviet Union, not 28days later. And in the 1% scenarios, people who care about their loved ones should keep euthanasia supplies, not food and guns.
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