by untothislast » Fri 18 May 2007, 06:45:56
Some thoughts for gated/walled/armed compound aspirants everywhere:
In a few year's time, most societies will be on a war-footing following the societal deteriorations likely to kick in as PO awareness grows. Governments - such as here in the UK - are already bedding in extreme curfew and control measures - under the guise of supposedly policing weekend drunks and fighting the 'war on terror'. Once the emergency actually unfolds, expect to be issued with ration books, and to have an inventory taken (in true Domesday Book fashion!) of everything you own, or have access to.
Your Walden Pond retreat, will be assailed by anyone who can find it - desperate enough to take from you whatever is at hand - if the government hasn't got there first. And the latter will be able to find you, wherever you are, via a combination of satellite tracking and photography, saturation cctv observation, and license plate recognition - that's if you haven't been actually electronically tagged or been issued with an biometric id card in the interim. Throw in a few 'inform on a hoarder' campaigns, with a few intimidation and reward incentives added to the mix along the way, and you have the reality - not the sylvan survivalist dream.
Good luck - but I think the best bet is to face reality. There is no way out of this, for anyone but the plutocrats who engineered the mess in the first place, who are probably already deep in to their own contingency planning - but with the backup of the military and intelligence at their command. I'm just maintaining a rotational system of always having a small (i.e. no one's likely to notice) amount of groceries on hand, to get my family through, say, six month's worth of immediate turmoil until we can all work out where we're at. I think that's realistically the most that many of us can aim for.