Understand, this is like Michael Moore smoking a dube with Glen Beck or the US doing shots with Iran. I've said for years that Occupy and the Tea party believe 99% of the exact same thing if they have the most basic understanding of the study of Semantics and confront their own personal pride. Same thing going on in this mix. I have a soft spot for Chris Martenson because he is the only POP prepper that is not a Dick. Yes, Im sure you have figured out that it hasn't rubbed off on me. I'm still a dick 😉 ...but Chris M is the best person to present to reluctant preppers or family members. All of the facts on collapse. None of the UN troops putting us in camps to spray chem trails on us and force us to drink flodide, sort of stuff. Leave it to him to set this up and a special thanks to Rawles for presenting common ground. You've probably heard me say something similar.
JWR, "
People really need to live at their retreats year-round and get into a self-sufficient lifestyle. You cannot just 'buy' survival. There is a learning curve to all of this. You can buy a wood cookstove, but that does not mean you know how to really cook with a wood cookstove or bake with it. There is a learning curve there; the same for gardening. It takes years really to develop soil, to build up your multi-year crops, your berries, for example. Asparagus beds take years to develop. Fruit and nut trees take years to grow to maturity.
You really have to be there. You have to learn the peculiarities of your local climate and your local frost-free days for growing. You have to learn which particular crops grow well in your climate zone. There is a learning curve to all of that. And unless you really live it, you cannot just expect to show up at your retreat at the eleventh hour and then start gardening the next day. It is probably not going to happen, at least not the way people hope it will."
Enjoy the rest of it. http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/83076/james-wesley-rawles-homesteading-relocation-resilience
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
I read the transcript, thanks for the link, I like JWR.
I liked this JWR quote:
"I have a lot in common with the left-of-center, Birkenstock-wearing crowd; I am just a little more heavily armed."
although this one would be better:
"People recognize that it takes more than guns to survive. They need the whole package. They need photo voltaic. They need advanced first-aid skills. They need communications equipment. They need water purification. They need food storage. They need non-hybrid gardening seed. There is so much that goes into it. People are definitely catching on. "
Re: People catching on; I stopped in to the Halifax Army Navy Store today and they were listening to Al Jazeera. Interesting. They were out of green paracord though.
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences." - Proverbs 22:3
"The man who has a garden and a library has everything." - Cicero
Ya, Im working on my next Shock Doctrine article in my head. 'Hippies had all the right answers for all the wrong reasons'. I think Ill call it "Our Survival rests in the hands of perky Hippy Chicks". Im still working out the word play, sarcasm and humiliation. People will once again think I am a duche if I play this right...BUT THEY WILL REMEMBER IT! At least they will remember it a few years down the line when they get over the anger and I start to make sense in retrospect.
Now lets all hold hands for a No Nukes chant before singing The Age of Aquarius. GROUP HUG! 😯
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
Martenson explains the triple predicaments of peak oil, debt crises in capitalism, and environmental damage in detail in his lectures.