by allenwrench » Sat 12 Jul 2008, 15:02:26
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('darwinsdog', 'D')oes it do any good to prep?
Suppose you prep & a fire or flood destroys all your work. Or the govt. seizes your assets, or a hungry mob rips you off, or you break your leg & can't work your plan... Then what?
If you haven't lived some sort of a low impact lifestyle all along, you're going to have a pretty steep learning curve once you're forced to retrofit your life to the new reality. You're going to make a lot of dumb mistakes. You're not going to be very efficient with the resources you do have. You're going to have accidents. And what if it's a decade or more until TS really HTF? All the scythes & misery whips you've stockpiled may seem pretty silly. So is prepping even rational? Is it really worth the bother?
Yes, tons of IF's, AND's and BUT's that could happen. We just don't know. We just do what we can and hope for the best.
But I do the footwork to do what I can do, irrespective of all the 'what ifs' that people throw up for excuses to do nothing.
As futurists we try to anticipate future events and the direction the world is headed in and as survivalists we try to prepare for those circumstances.
Mental preparedness and physical fitness are the foundations of all our survival quests. For the mind guides the body, but an unfit body is not able to respond to the minds guidance.
Sometimes we can get stuck in a a place of constantly looking and never finding. In short, we can get stuck in a state of "analysis paralysis." We tell ourselves we need to assemble all the facts before we can start and as perfectionists we never seem to have *all* the facts that allow us to perfectly act. I
Other times we get so bombarded with facts and theories that we could never act on all of them anyway. Another issue is that of fear and pleasure. It is much more pleasurable sometimes being a student than having to go out in the world and apply what we have studied for so long.
I used to do be stuck with analysis paralysis with books. I would get all the books I thought I needed to perfect an area of study, but would shove them aside to read at later date due to the massive quantities I would assemble. I really planned to read them all...when I had more time. The Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus reminds us "It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of reasonings."
No, knowledge without application is useless. Well, that time never came and all it produced was massive amounts of clutter and low self worth. I would think the answer to my problems was in another area of study and start afresh with more books in that area and on and on.
I now try to apply simplicity to my work now and look for minimums and not maximums. Once we have enough concepts in hand (the basics) we can start applying them to restructuring our new life - no need to wait - just start where your at.
