2/20/2012 - 2nd Day - Afternoon (2nd Post). 3.5 days until the The Last Pilgrims Book Bomb – Greetings friends. Here is a quickie post for you today... no charge.
5 Signs that you are Preparing to Fail in your Prepper plans
1. If you are not currently using and/or eating the "stuff" you are storing as preparedness items, then you are preparing to fail.
2. If you are not educating yourself and practicing what you will do to produce these consumable items (or an adequate replacement for them) after a disaster or collapse, then you are preparing to fail.
3. If you are not studying (or becoming aware) to learn what caused the current system to be disintegrating and unviable, and if you are not practicing production, then you are preparing to fail.
4. If you think store-housing consumables alone is a long-term survival strategy, then you are preparing to fail.
5. If your plan is to maintain your current lifestyle of unproductive consumption or to "flip over" once a collapse happens, then you are preparing to fail.
Earnestness and zeal in following a bad plan or false philosophy or worldview will not help you one bit when a collapse happens. Every consumer will always be a slave to the producer. Always.
***The Last Pilgrims Book Bomb is FRIDAY 2/24/2012***
Peace,
Michael Bunker
4 comments:
Thank you for the reminder. Have a blessed week.
'The consumer is always slave to the producer' - you are so right! It reminds of 'the borrower is slave to the lender'
But I have a question about #4. What do you mean by 'store-housing consumables'?
Stephanie, that means that "storage" or what I would call "Modern Prepping" (storing purchased items) is the main means of survival, and the primary plan. In this case, someone is buying up bulk items to store them up, and a garden (or a planned garden), or production is an afterthought. So basically almost any prepper out there who is not planning right now and moving towards producing most of what they will consume after a disaster.
If a doctor came up to someone and said, "You have 3 years to live, and maybe half that", they'd panic. But the same people believe that storing 1,3,7 years of consumer goods is going to be sufficient for survival. If someone shows me their 3 year survival food supply and has no active, practical, and practiced plan to produce a majority of their food (I don't mean storing garden seeds, either), then I mentally give them 8 months to a year to live if when the SHTF. And that is generous.
Michael
Gotcha. I totally agree.
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