I’m prepped to just fucking kill myself when society collapses. I’m not living through that shit.
U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest
Submitted 8 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hegar@kbin.social 8 months ago
You're living through it right now though. Increased disease, poverty, institutional break down, more conflict, more movement of peoples towards various social or environmental refugia. 'Collapse' is a process that takes decades.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 8 months ago
Yeah but there are a couple downward steps that would be a lot larger and more obvious. I’m hanging out to see if they are in the near future. And also heck it might be fun for a minute in the more chaotic moments.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Glad to know I’m not the only one.
Every time I watch a post-apocalyptic film, I’m left wondering why anyone would want to live for that.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The thing is, what if you are the hero? Like, the only one that can draw the melon’s life force, that saves all of humanity?
If you kill yourself, you take all remaining humans with you.
Beardedsausag3@kbin.social 8 months ago
I hope that day never comes.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
At least someone will get a meal out of it, assuming your screen name is true.
explodicle@local106.com 8 months ago
Where will you know when it’s collapsed?
Fisk400@feddit.nu 8 months ago
When the internet has been down for 24 hours.
rigatti@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Kansas.
zarathustra0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
people or color
Who let this crap get published?
FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The people without color gang, of course (you cant see them tho)
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 months ago
As someone who's actually learning how to do things to actually survive I appreciate them collecting supplies in one place so I can use them after they starve to death.
Pandantic@midwest.social 8 months ago
Downvoted decide - is @Semi-Hemi-Demigod the hero or the villain?
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 months ago
Yes.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 8 months ago
He’s clearly the shop keeper for the hero to find
brockblocka@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Ha! Here in Australia we don’t ‘prep’. But I reckon I could comfortably survive in the bush for a good year with what I could throw into my ute with 5 min warning.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Yeah i live in the Territory, plenty of empty space thousands of head of cattle no one would care about once global trade collapsed.
Hell i think pur biggest problems would be other countries trying to take over.
Klear@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve seen a series of documentaries about this starring Mel Gibson.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I could do alright for a few months if I found a remote enough place with a nice stream. I’ve got a garden and my tackle box is already in the truck for reasons unrelated to the apocalypse. I’d be living off fish, a small variety of veggies, and garlic.
If I could reach back far enough in my memory I could make a bow, fletch some arrows, and go hunting. I have the woodworking tools and with a bit of trial and error could probably remember how to make a string from animal gut or hide. Bonus, more fish hooks.
I would really enjoy that until it stopped feeling like a vacation and started feeling like work. I love hunting and used to love making tools for it.
Pandantic@midwest.social 8 months ago
I’ve been thinking more and more about Australia as a safe haven, but I’ll have to learn to be an Australian to live there. Lots of things that will kill you there.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I bet you bring a ray of refreshing sunshine everywhere you go.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The sun itself must shine out of their ass.
Starkstruck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think it’s smart to have some emergency supplies on hand, but building a whole ass bunker like it’s gonna be Fallout is where it gets crazy. I think for a lot of these people it just becomes a hobby lol.
foofiepie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My grandmother had her own vegetable garden, and kept a full pantry, rotating out canned, preserved and dried food properly, had candles, water collection, all sorts of stuff.
What they call prepping nowadays was once simply common sense.
I feel this will become more mainstream in decades to come.
The mallninja knives and other such fluff are bizarre though.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s because these people do not want to actually live this way. They are cosplayers. They want to buy $50 worth of freeze dried food and go to McDonald’s.
Your grandmother learned to live like that because she had no choice. That’s what growing up in the Depression will do to you. No grandma would ever have freeze dried ice cream. Better learn how to milk a cow! Free milk, cream, and butter every day. But it’s not easy.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Obviously if you don’t live somewhere where you can have a cow, freeze dried is required or else you’ll die in around 96 hours. That’s the average amount of time someone can survive without ice cream, which I’m sure you’re aware
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I plan on protecting my local library to preserve all knowledge that can help us stay alive and grow a healthy community.
Wrench@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Living in Southern California, my mom always had a trash can outside filled with died/canned goods and water that she periodically rotated. She called it our earthquake supplies. I’m not sure if
Justas@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It will become more mainstream as people in the west become poorer. Most rich people don’t know how to preserve food because they can just buy it made for them.
Tai6VohT@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
we garden, hunt and keep a pantry of canned goods because the food is better. self-sufficiency is just a nice perk.