Posted on 03/07/2014 3:15:41 PM PST by Kartographer
Swiss family Robinson is a hilarious book!!! It was written by a guy who hD never left the country, writing about exotic Lands and animals he had read about in books. He wrote during the cold winters to amuse his family.
My little son made me read about the invading snake a 100 times and we laughed to tears. They have no snakes in Switzerland. So he had written that the vicious snake comes to attack them standing erect, bouncing up the path to the house.
I believe they also rode ostriches. And as Swiss cannot imagine life without potatoes, he wrote about the delight of the family Robinson finding wild potatoes growing on the island.
It really is a very funny book.
I once attended a briefing on a controversial subject, and the man giving the briefing put an unusual illustration on the overhead projector.
It was of the head of a yawning baboon, showing its very large canine teeth. But on the ends of the upper canines descended two ropes, attached to a swing. On the swing was a young girl, seemingly swinging in and out of the gaping mouth of the yawning baboon.
He explained to us that the yawning baboon represented the government, the media, the public, or a combination of the three. And we, each of us, were the little girl swinging in and out of its mouth.
“As the baboon continues to be bored, it continues to yawn. But if something, anything, gets its attention, it will stop yawning, to your detriment. So if you make yourself known to the baboon, intentionally or otherwise, you are baboon food.”
As a lesson, this definitely applies to *any* SHTF scenario.
So, in order of importance, it is best to:
1) Not be noticed.
2) If noticed, to be uninteresting.
3) If interesting, to be interesting for unimportant reasons.
4) If interesting, for important reasons, to have alliances with those who will protect you.
5) “Time to go, grasshopper.”
I first read SwFR in a Classics Illustrated comic book. As a kid I thought it would be fun to live in a treehouse with all the comforts of home.
But later when the two grown sons decide to take to the open sea and discover the world beyond their island, their parents just wish them well & go back to the treehouse. Strange.
The writing is like a foreigner’s.
SHTF = ???
Whoa there little buddy.
Sh*t Hit The Fan
In fact, a strategy I specifically recommend in my new book "When There is No FEMA". In my case I recommend (with plenty of caution) always having the mixin's for mustard gas on hand.
Won’t every prepper die? At some point?
From what I’ve seen & heard most people are not ready to pull the trigger to end another person’s life. Oh we talk a great game, but when push comes to shove not everyone is ready to do this. Even not everyone in the military are ready to do this. We can train all we want, but need to make ourselves mentality ready. Can you make the pistil shot under extreme duress within 21 feet in seconds? My guess is no.
“The excrement made physical contact with a hydro-electric powered oscillating air current distribution system.”
Actually the best way to survive is to organize your neighbors into a viable defense force. I recommend “A Failure of Civility” by Mike Garand and Jack Lawson that will teach you to how to do just that. If you are a veteran you could join Oath Keepers and participate in their Civilization Preservation Teams project. Otherwise the bad guys will just pick you off one at a time.
No not Lazamataz and Marcella.
The problem with prepping is that there is no “one size fits all”. I do, however, agree that a well stocked bug out bag is a good idea. Oh yea, and plenty of flashlights and batteries.
That last point is a cogent one. A moral, freedom loving person has the general obligation outside of providing for their immediate loved ones of helping some semblance of society return to normal. That would include aiding in the cleanup of nee’r do wells.
That said, one thing I think a lot of people don’t quite “get” with respect to societal breakdown and it’s resultant anarchy and potential for armed battle is, YOU DON’T GET A “DO-OVER” ON GETTING SHOT.
There are a LOT of places where people are seen making battle with military style weapons (full auto no less) in other parts of the world where you as an American would probably stand a far greater chance of survival than here. Why? Because most of those other places the majority of people are crappy shots, AND they’re all using full metal jacket mil-spec ammo.
The U.S. is saturated with rifles that are shooting heavier loads and they are in probably the majority of instances firing ammunition designed for taking game animals. These rounds are soft nosed and/or hollow point and a strike that may, with a full jacket round be survivable, will most definitely not be with a hunting round.
Granted, it’s all of ours hope that the majority of the folks wielding weapons firing game rounds will be like minded individuals with the Republic’s best interest in mind, but when the times get “Selco’y”, you’re going to have to be VERY judicious in your assesment of others and your exposure to whatever they’re packing...
Is holding a BOB like choking your chicken?
If Bob had a helicopter I might leave but I can shoot a lot better than I can run. I suppose I would hang in there until help came form next door or when I got too shot up to survive go down in flames. Run? I can hardly walk.
If you live in the right area, being “bunkered in” with the right equipment, supplies, and a decent neighbor-network, is exactly the right thing to do.
I live in a sparsely populated area with several like-minded neighbors. When the SHTF, a couple of large black-powder charges can drop bridges making our area extremely difficult to access.
A mech infantry battalion MIGHT be able to dislodge us, but nothing short of that will be able to even hurt us much.
Because it is, he lived through the Yugoslavian mayhem.
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