Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/08/2015 23:00 -0400http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-08/preparedness-critics-are-historys-cannon-fodderSubmitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
The world is entering a kind of no man’s land, in between the realms of insane denial and utterly obvious crisis. Europe is now destabilizing amid the Greek soap opera (an event that I
predicted
in January would occur in 2015); China’s stock market bubble is
bursting; and the U.S. dollar’s world reserve status is about to be
decimated by the global shift toward the International Monetary Fund’s
basket currency reserve system. I’m afraid I’m going to have to say this
because I don’t know if anyone else will admit it:
Alternative economic analysts were right, and the mainstream choir was either terribly wrong or disgustingly dishonest. However, as most of us in the liberty movement are well aware, being right is not necessarily a solution to disaster.
At the forefront of alternative economics and constitutional vigilance are the people doing the
real
work in the movement: the preppers. These are the activists taking
concrete action in the tangible world (as opposed to the ethereal
laziness of the intellectual world) first to make themselves as
independent as possible from the mainstream grid, thereby removing
themselves as a potential refugee or looter in the event of national
crisis. Second, they are the people mastering valuable and necessary
skills that will allow them to rebuild any collapsed social and
financial system. Third, they are the people most capable of defending
our inherent freedoms and the principles of our founding culture, and
they are the only people organizing locally for mutual aid and security.
The fact of the matter is preppers are free, and almost everyone else
is a slave — a slave to dependency, a slave to doubt, a slave to
ignorance, a slave to fear and, thus, a slave to petty establishment
authority.
During the Great Depression, the vast majority of American citizens
were rural, farm-oriented people with survival skills far beyond the
modern American. “Prepping” in those days was ingrained in our society,
rather than marginalized and labeled “fringe.” Today, the numbers are
reversed, with a dwindling number of farm-experienced Americans and a
vast wasteland of urban and suburban citizens — many with few, if any,
legitimate skill sets. During the Great Depression, millions of people
died of starvation and general poverty, despite the incredible number of
people with rural survival knowledge. What do you think would happen to
our effeminate; metrosexual; iPhone-addicted; lisping; limp-wristed;
self-obsessed; Twitter-, texting-, video game-addled; La-Z-Boy-riding;
overgrown-child culture in the event that another economic crisis even
remotely similar were to occur? Yes, most of them would die, probably in
a horrible fashion.
Think about it for a moment. An incredible subsection of Americans do
not know how to feed themselves; they do not know how to hunt; they do
not know how to grow crops; they do not know how to repair any necessary
items used for subsistence; they do not know how to build anything
useful; they do not know how to shoot; they do not know how to defend
themselves; they don’t even know how to cook a pot of rice properly.
Their only skills involve parroting snarky remarks from their favorite
lowest-common-denominator television and Web shows, building ample karma
points on Reddit, and avoiding any stance contrary to what they
perceive to be the majority opinion (which they also derive from
mainstream media and websites).
It is decidedly ironic given the uselessness of such people that it
is often the worst subsections of the blind, deaf and dumb that choose
to “critique” the prepper lifestyle as “disturbed” or “dangerous.”
In my view, they are absolutely damned pathetic and should be looked
down upon with utter contempt as the most concentrated example of
slithering human misery ever to smear across the pages of history.
But, hey, that doesn’t mean I wish them harm.
People who are unaware and unprepared are not necessarily our
enemies. At one time or another, we all were unaware of the underlying
truths to our system and our future, until we woke up one day. On the
other hand, there are some people who have truly evolved from the sickly
and bitter bile scraped from the lower intestine of the grotesquely
ignorant. These people are the anti-preppers.
Anti-preppers are well aware of the philosophies and fact-based
arguments of prepper activism; but rather than ignoring or dismissing us
outright and moving on with their vapid lives, they instead seek to
destroy preppers and the prepping ideal. Why? To understand that, you
have to understand the nature of statists and collectivists because that
it where these people root themselves and their twisted worldview.
I recently read an article by Joshua Krause over at
The Daily Sheeple in which he countered a mainstream hit piece article against preppers titled
“Be prepared For preppers.”
The article is itself an immensely disturbed display, first using
typical and unimaginative ad hominem arguments to marginalize preppers,
then mutating into a treatise on why preppers should all be
exterminated.
Krause did a fine job of dismantling the substandard and
journalistically challenged propaganda essay, but I would like to go
beyond the typical arguments of anti-preppers and into the mindset that
drives them. I recommend you read
“Be prepared for preppers”
for good measure, being that it is a perfect example of the
psychopathic nature of the common statist. Then, I would like to perform
a little brain surgery here and peel away some layers of psyche so that
you can understand why these people hate us so much.
The Prepper Stereotype
The sad reality is most anti-preppers I’ve dealt with in person have
never even talked to a prepper face to face until they had met me. They
tend to enter into an immediate debate posture with multiple assumptions
in terms of what a prepper believes and how a prepper lives. This
posture begins with an incredulous and sarcastic demeanor. And as they
begin to realize that the prepper they are dealing with is smarter than
they are, their attitude devolves into conditioned talking points and
generally indignant frothing.
Anti-preppers do not know or associate with real preppers. Rather,
they derive their opinions of us from popular media, which is in most
cases openly biased; episodes of “Doomsday Preppers” and other shows
designed to make us look ridiculous; and Southern Poverty Law
Center-influenced news articles loaded with carefully crafted slander.
They rarely, if ever, confront a prepper or preppers on neutral ground
and address facts or figures honestly.
The bulk of what makes up the prepper stereotype is utter nonsense.
But it reinforces the anti-prepper’s hateful inclinations, so they eat
it up without question.
They Hate Us Because Of Our Freedom
Are anti-preppers “terrorists?” Yes, they are. It might sound harsh,
but consider the attitude of the anti-prepper for a moment. He hates you
because you have chosen a lifestyle that is independent from the system
and ideology of which he chooses to remain a part. He hates you because
you have a measure of freedom he does not have, but could have if only
he had the guts to do something about it. He hates you because you do
not want to participate in the meaningless game of collectivism he has
spent his whole life attempting to master. He hates you because you are
walking away from his system and doing your own thing. How dare you do
your own thing!
Many of us who appreciate libertarian-oriented ideals are proponents
of the “non-aggression principle,” which, to summarize, states that
respect for individual freedom is the paramount value of any society
that seeks to sustain itself peacefully and indefinitely. Human society
is
not a nexus; it is not a hive. Society, if it is anything at
all, is a collection of individual minds and souls acting voluntarily
for the advancement the community, but never at the cost of personal
liberty. Contrary to popular mainstream belief, the individual does NOT
owe society a thing.
Non-aggression requires that society will not violate personal
liberty for arbitrary collective gain and that individuals will not use
violence or coercion to forcefully mandate the participation of others.
That is to say, you leave me to my dream and I leave you to yours. But
if you try to deliberately trample my dream in order to enrich your own,
I am then within my rights to bring a mighty friggin' hammer down on
your skull until you leave me alone. Anti-preppers have no capacity to
grasp this concept. To them, each human being is property of the larger
group and defiance of the state is blasphemy.
Such collectivists are also predictably devout followers of the
religion of resource management, and often argue that preppers are in
fact "horders" of resources. Under this ideology, resources do not
belong to the people who actually worked to earn them. Rather,
resources somehow belong to EVERYONE no matter how lazy they are, and
must be constantly redistributed so that all people (common people, not
elites) have the same exact amount. They can never seem to define what
exactly a "fair share" actually is, and I believe this is because as
long as a "fair share" remains ambiguously up to them, they retain the
ultimate power to take what they want whenever they want always under
the rationale that yesterday you and I had enough, but today we again
have too much. The anti-prepper argument that "hording" is harmful to
the collective and that all resources, even your food storage, should be
managed by the group (the state), is THE propaganda model of the
future. Do not forget this because you will be seeing this propaganda
take center stage very soon.
Anti-preppers are often the kinds of social justice circus clowns
that preach unerring tolerance and claim disdain for any form of
discrimination, yet they are at the same time violently discriminatory
against anyone who will not preach their particular collectivist gospel.
The social collectivist model is by every definition a form of cultism,
and in most cases the god of this cult is the state. It treats the
state as an infallible omnipotent presence: mother and father, caretaker
and disciplinarian.
To refuse participation is to deny the collectivist god, and the
kinds of horrors we read about of the religious zealotry of medieval
Christian inquisitions pale in comparison to the death and destruction
dealt by modern collectivists.
Their worship of the state is energized by their love of its
collective power - the state is the ultimate weapon to those who think
they can successfully wield it. The state has the ability to "legally"
imprison and/or kill, and it has the ability to threaten such
consequences against anyone who refuses to conform to the ideological
whims of the people who exploit it. Unless, that is, the victims of the
state become revolutionaries. This is the great fear of collectivists
in terms of the prepper movement; they see us as potential
revolutionaries that could conceivably extinguish their mechanism of
control, and they don't like that one bit.
The Psychotic Zealotry Of Anti-Preppers
Many anti-preppers are not content only to attack the character of
the prepper movement — at least, not anymore. You see, despite the rabid
attempts to undermine the validity of prepping and dissuade the growth
of the movement, preppers are now legion, with millions of active
participants and effective alternative media experts who are dominating
Web traffic and crushing traditional media into archaic bone meal. We
have made the mainstream media a mainstream joke, and this does not sit
well in the minds of statist adherents who once had the power to
bottleneck all discussion. If we are so desperately fringe, there would
be no need to write unprovoked hit pieces against us to begin with. Who
are they trying to convince?
Since they now know they cannot win the war of information, they
increasingly foster fantasies of genocide. This quote (in reference to
methods for solving the “prepper problem”) from the article linked above
truly says it all:
"Furthermore, consumed with the heady lust of their own
unexpected survival (see any episode of The Walking Dead), and with only
expired condoms at their disposal (not even Doom and Bloom stocks
birth-control pills) these mouth-breathers will doubtless multiply
rapidly, and, ergo, must be stopped before such an advent. That can mean
only one thing: key preparation in any disaster for the rest of us
(other than a map to all of Wal-Mart’s distribution warehouses) is this:
be prepared to neuter preppers by any means available.
… Not only will such noblesse oblige ensure a stronger
gene pool going forward, but hey — those bastards have all the gear and
food and fish antibiotics you’ll ever need."
And there you have it: the comic book delusion of the anti-prepper,
so desperate to stop us from stockpiling food and essentials, so
disturbed by our local organization and ability to defend ourselves,
that they would prefer to see us all “neutered,” i.e., killed. Note also
the obsession with the sterilization of the gene pool as socialists in
their psychotic fury often harken back to their fascist and communist
forefathers.
It is perhaps not coincidental that the people most in love with the
state are often the first ones to be annihilated by it. Avid lower
echelon and middlemen agents of tyranny are in many cases exterminated
by the very system they helped to dominance. If they do not meet their
demise at the hands of the establishment, then they invariably meet
their demise at the hands of those fighting against the establishment.
The problem for anti-preppers is that most of them are weaklings and
cowards who are incapable of carrying out their vision of a final
program. They have always needed a warrior class mandated by the state
to implement the killing they desire. Hilariously, this particular
anti-prepper spends 80% of his article shoveling poorly written
character assassinations like so much manure as if our concerns of
crisis are inconsequential, then goes on to describe his idea of wiping
out all preppers and stealing our supplies in the event that the system
does collapse. If we are all such “kooks” and paranoid hillbillies, then
why even entertain the notion of having us snuffed out so that our
stores can be redistributed? Surely, such a collapse will never occur in
the midst of our invincible American economy; and, thus, preppers are
nothing more than harmless eccentrics wasting our money on boxes of food
we won’t touch for another 20 years. Right?
History does not support the assumptions of anti-preppers. And
throughout history, anti-preparedness people tend to be the first to
meet an early demise in the wake of fiscal and social collapse because
they have no utility and because, frankly, no one really likes them.
They also aren’t the brightest bulbs around (the guy actually thinks
he’s going to find food at a Wal-Mart distribution center after a
breakdown in civil order).
Anti-preppers today are promoting violent action against preparedness
culture because in the far reaches of their sickly subconscious, they
know we are right and that we will not be controlled when the system
breaks. These people accuse us of lusting after collapse, when it is in
fact they who salivate over mass die-off scenarios in which they
fantasize that they will somehow be the survivors despite the fact that
they are born victims. They imagine a time when, after the “gene pool
has been cleansed,” they will rebuild society as a perfect socialist
utopia in which every ideology contrary to their own has been erased
from all memory, leaving their ultimate prize: a blank slate world to do
with as they wish.
The goal behind the prepper movement is simple, not sinister; we seek
to defuse crisis before it occurs by providing our own necessities
without the need for a mainstream grid that could easily malfunction and
a government that is corrupt beyond repair. If your neighbor is a
prepper, be thankful, for you have one less person on your street to
worry about as a potential looter during an emergency. If your neighbor
is an anti-prepper, beware, for this person sees you as a potential
source of supply and thinks you owe him merely because you have
something he does not. The bottom line is if the world were full of
preppers, there would be no such thing as crisis because there would be
no lack of necessity or individual ingenuity. In the land of preppers,
disaster vanishes. When was the last time an anti-prepper did anything
to improve anything for anyone other than himself? Ask yourself which
you would rather be in the end: ready for anything or ready for nothing?
