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Exactly. A lot of these preppers are anything but. To be a real prepper no one should know about your activities apart from your spouse. Yet I see all these people advertising/boasting how prepared they are, how much food they have, the weaponry they possess, how they have moved from cash assets to gold and other precious metals that are in their possession, etc. Sheer stupidity, and such people do deserve mockery. I was reading the other week about some British chap who has stored enough canned food to last for months on end. He then has pictures of himself, the store with all the food, and the article gives his location. You tell me - if the shtf that place would be raided within the week, and even assuming he had weapons (big assumption since that was the UK, but let's assume he has enough guns to outfit a small revolution) there would simply be too many people for him to overcome. Some people imagine they would be Rambo, or like Heston's character in the Omega Man, but the truth is in real life numbers count (be it to suppress numerous enemies, have working protective shifts, or tackle other dangers like the fires that will be breaking out when the shtf).

Anyways, any person who says the extent of their preparation, and says it either constantly or with a way of being identified, is not a prepper. That person is just a sad soul striving for positive attention and confirmation. Like some nerd trying to show he has the latest Star Wars role playing game.

Real preppers remain largely anonymous, and more importantly do not provide identifying details that can enable people to locate them when things go down. Real preppers realize that the only way to survive will be a medley of two meta-principles: a) preparing in advanced (in all ways, e.g. having a stocked larder but remaining in suburbia, which will be a killzone, is myopic to put it mildly), and b) realizing that prepping in secrecy is mandatory to the plan having any chance of succeeding.

All the 'preppers' in those tv shows and magazine articles are not preppers. They are simply nerds in need of attention, and wholly deserving of any mockery they receive. They are basically a wannabe Paris Hilton, only without the sex tape.

To be a real prepper no one should know about your activities apart from your spouse.

That's pretty cowardly to have to hide your activities.

As I said, I'll speak up in the community to encourage others to prepare for disasters. The more that prepare, the less problems I have.

Besides, I'm not sneaking off into the night and letting my community and country go to hell. If it gets me killed, I've got a better home awaiting.

/johnny