>> a balanced diet.
In article <48ac1086$0$28874$88260bb3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jon <jonmein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I thought the survivalist answer for readily available, compact,
>shelf-stable balanced diet was *dry cat food*. %^P But after
>2000, what are they worried about, anyway, that's short term
>enough to ride it out in their well-stocked and secured shelters?
>But that's another misc.group topic...
It's amusing that there's 3 different news groups ++ devoted to
survivalism.
They are worried about economic collapse, nuclear war with Russia (as
opposed to the Soviet Union), or war with China (PRC). Or the Middle
East (real problems). Or the more abstract end of the world (Gog-Magog)
Biblical Revelation. It's TV topical because of US and UK survivor shows.
Various plagues and emergent diseases. A friend wrote a book about the
sociology of the movement almost a decade ago and it was recently on
Nightline (they had a guy near Seward, AK which must have been about the
time I was killing time in that area). They are worried about a lot of
things (race wars in some case).
The survivalists who view their shelters like fall-out shelters of the
50s and 60s are a little misguided. The long-term thinkers like the
traditional LDS (maybe Christopher) with their year larder are probably
doing OK because they rotate their food, etc. They will be fine for
earthquakes, storms, etc.
Do we teach about scurvy in schools these days? Why the British got
called limeys?
Some of the survivalist education in certain basic outdoor skills like
using a compass is clearly a joke. Bring the topic of winter up and
they are all snowshoers (The Neo-NS, this is funny because the real ones
were pretty good skiers).
A long history of malnutrition in exploration exists on the nautical
(long-term) side. I'm not certain what the future will be. And for
some reason in the past year Paul Saffo (the futurist) and I have been
running into each other a lot (at least once a month, but usually more).
This is all why Douglas Adams made his whole B-ark joke in the HHGG.
I think the sserous long term problems of the future will be evolved and
adapted past problems and a few new problems. To use Adams' analogy,
it's neither A-ark, B-ark, or C-ark. You didn't want to be on any of
THOSE arks.
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