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the biggest problem with prepping, ironically, is other people.
The more prepared you are, the more of a target you are, the more someone else will want you dead, in order to take over your equipment.
Unless you are quite literally nomadic, you simply cannot be ready.
The best prep is knowledge and understanding because that isn't so easy to take away.
Storing purified water is nice. Knowing how to purify water is better.
Having fish vs. Knowing how to get fish.
Next step? Thriving>surviving. Truly understand that thriving takes a village. People skills matter. If every other human is the enemy then you are clearly outnumbered.
This was one reason I chose a career path in fibre arts. I like knowing how to thread a loom and weave a basket. But it also comes with the question of who's going to spin all the thread? That shit is booooring and you need a metric fuck ton of it.
Hence the people skills. Dr. Stone is smart but he couldn't do anything without the mentalist to convince everyone to do the menial labor
this is pretty much it summed up. Though i tend to leave out the community part because that's the one thing these people seem to understand. Makes my point a little more apparent.
Also i just have an inherent distrust towards other people.
The real problem is that these people live in a world of fantasy and prep for the zombie apocalypse. It's this quasi sexual thing where they get a hard on for shooting everyone that moves, without guilt of any kind.
The problem with their approach is that the zombie apocalypse won't happen and the people with guns are likely to be the ones starting the problem when things go slightly bad.
BTW, I have lived through natural catastrophes where we got isolated and without power for many days. Curiously, neighbors got together and helped each other. No rapists or crazy marauders. Sadly, everybody went back to their natural state of isolation once the crisis was averted.
yeah, it's a weird sort of anti-prep in a way.
I get what they're trying to do, i don't understand how they think it's going to go well though.