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This movie shows why preppers...

posted 11 years ago by drumsey
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will only live out their lives a tad bit longer than the rest of us...because, marauding gangs of barbarians and thugs WILL eventually overtake you, slaughter you, rape everything, and then raid your food and water and power sources

in fact THAT is the only way anyone would survive is to be lucky enough to join a gang

i have to laugh at that show preppers, one lady living in utah was on there and she was stockpiling a bunch of stuff and living in an APARTMENT?! yeah, like gangs and murderous thugs wouldn't have that stash in about 5 minutes

[–] robertjhj 10 years ago

The goal of prepping is to get someone past the initial hump of a disaster.

In a scenario like The Road even preppers would be hard pressed to survive.

Preppers do not prep for a scenario like this movie where all plant life and animals are gone. Preppers are counting on having enough supplies to get through the rough part and then go from there whether that means growing/hunting their own food or doing other things and bartering for food.

I know of no prepper that is storing ten years worth of food and water.

The Road is an extreme scenario.

And yes the show about preppers is stupid. Those people are setting themselves up for a disaster if something does happen.

[–] forthekitties 10 years ago

I agree with this. I watch a prepper on youtube because she has lots of tips that I can utilize in day-to-day life, like food storage and alternate uses for things, but unless you literally have a secret underground bunker that is very well concealed, you're screwed. A lot of the things she has could be useful, like "lifestraws", but once they're gone, you're toast.

Basically you're not going to survive, even if you have all sorts of supplies well hidden. Eventually you will run out or get sick and there's no saving you.

In the event that we want to survive an apocalypse, the only logical way I can see is to join together and rebuild from the ground up, but that will only end in war between those who want to rape, pillage and kill and those who are trying to rebuild. Eventually the "looking out for number one" mentality will win out and that will be the end of us.

[–] eurostar-427-360396 10 years ago

Preppers could do well if done right. You cant rely on just that though. You need certain skillset and know a little bit about nature as well. I doubt all the fish in the oceans have died, ocean animals have a better survival rate if land animals went extinct, so the father of the boy could have tried fishing for food. He could have boiled ocean water and cured his wounds with the salt from the ocean water. All tribes and civilizations in ancient times developed large populations when located near water sources and oceans. When irrigation systems was invented, they were able to go more in-land. With that said, living near an ocean would have been the best place to camp.

Also, odds are, in those food cans that the father found in a bunker are vegetable seeds that could be used to plant more crops.

This goes to another skillset that is needed to survive. The ability to build things would have helped greatly also. With so much wood around them, they could have easily built a lookout tower on the beach, or in the middle of the dead forest (which would slighly camoflouged the structure). Building wood fence and doorway,

Of course if you have none of those skills or no proper mindset, you wont last long,

[–] mobocracy 10 years ago

I think it all depends on the apocalyptic scenario and the "preppers" involved and what they prepare for.

You could, if you "prepped" for it, live on a small rural farm in the manner of the late 19th century and aim for self-sustainability as much as possible. How long you could survive in a "Road" style scenario would depend on whether you were able to stockpile feed and grains.

If you managed to plan and stockpile, what, 10 years? And if you were remote enough you'd only have to worry about maybe the first year or so to be visited by roving gangs, after that fuel would run out.

But any scenario that ends in a dead planet with no usable sunlight is pretty much impossible to survive by any civilian preppers or even groups of preppers.

The only way to survive that kind of situation is in some kind of bunker planned, designed and stocked for extreme long-term survival by engineers and scientists. Low-maintenance nuclear power for electric generation and a massive supply of materials, parts, machine tools, not to mention a vast ability to grow/farm some kinds of food in a protected area for all the people with special skills you would need.

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[–] greg-233 9 years ago

"Say you live in a tiny undergound bunker with a plantation going and air filtration, water recycling and renewable energy production. Then people inside can technically stay in the bunker forever."

Maybe. But staying in a tiny underground bunker forever doesn't sound like much of a life. How many people would be living in this bunker?

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[–] greg-233 9 years ago

"Its not different to space travel. You live inside a can. Just make sure your bunker is really nice and homey."

But with space travel, you know you're going to set foot on a planet eventually. You won't be confined forever. Without a purpose, or something to look forward to, the people in the bunker wouldn't really be living, merely existing. If they're not planning to have children, there isn't going to be a next generation to pass anything onto and the human race will still die out.

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[–] watterlloo 9 years ago

Interesting how yet another enlightened individual takes a whack at "preppers" and "prepping," and that's fine, but.....

In the event of a catastrophe of any major magnitude, exactly what do YOU think we should have done beforehand? Nothing? Keep a gun with one bullet to kill ourselves with? Wait around for another Obama con-man to swoop in with his NSA, militarized police and TPP to get us back our "freedom" and will to live?

Don't knock preppers, unless you have a better idea. And don't forget. We preppers don't just prep with food, water, heating sources and shelter.......get it? Go ahead. Come marauding my way anytime. It won't be silver bullion and water jugs you come into contact with, I can assure you.

In the meantime, keep buying your keen ipods, giant flat screen TV's (at least one per room), giant SUV's and make sure you're all caught up with the latest fashion and home deco trends. You need some help when it all comes down? Well, go ask Martha Stewart and Janet Yellen. They'll save ya'. Maybe the Kardashians will ease your mind at the time as well.

Snicker.

"Hey, shut up in there, I'm trying to type....." OT: Do the voices in my head bother you?

[–] lunchboxattacks 9 years ago

I think the problem that a lot of people have with preppers (at least the ones we see on TV) is that they come off like a bunch of gun fetishists who are kind of hoping that the world ends, that society crumbles and that they then can be masters of their own destiny as the guy or girl with the most bullets, who will be judge, jury and executioner to any sorry soul who comes within viewing distance of his or her bug-out. They would sit in their solar/wind/gas/hydro powered shelter, laughing at those on the outside now without modern tech, while polishing their collection of precision engineered rifles, eating their tinned food, and watching movies on their rechargeable portable DVD player. What they don't have, or at least talk about, is a plan on what to do after their bullets run out, or how they might plan to rebuild. It just seems that they want to last a bit longer than every other person on Earth, to one day be able to climb out of their bunker and yell, "I WIN!" to no-one.

[–] greg-233 9 years ago

"I think the problem that a lot of people have with preppers (at least the ones we see on TV) is that they come off like a bunch of gun fetishists who are kind of hoping that the world ends, that society crumbles and that they then can be masters of their own destiny as the guy or girl with the most bullets, who will be judge, jury and executioner to any sorry soul who comes within viewing distance of his or her bug-out."

The kind of people who would regard the end of the world as a "liberating" experience? In America the powerful gun lobby has this weird idea of equating guns with "freedom". If there is so much as a mention of gun control, they work themselves up into a patriotic frenzy and naively perceive any attempts at gun control as an "attack on freedom".

"It just seems that they want to last a bit longer than every other person on Earth, to one day be able to climb out of their bunker and yell, "I WIN!" to no-one."

I suppose this film underlines a point that tends to be ignored in most post-apocalyptic stories. Which is, not even the most armed-to-the-teeth prepper will have a long-term future.

[–] thornsthorns 8 years ago

except preppers will most likely be the gangs.