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Liberal head in the sand

posted 10 years ago by mkmdd2
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Not to long ago a New York Times critic wrote a nasty article about preppers. I think a lot of people think the world has always been this peaceful and as a result they think everyone else is crazy. Given, many of the people on the TV show strange, I think this was typical bias from the left.

Just because a particular catastrophe hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it is not likely to happen. I haven't died yet but I'm sure it will happen someday. It's all in the probabilities that keep increasing as society gets to be more complicated and a house of cards. Things like tsunami, earthquake, meteors, are unlikely. However, solar flares that could destroy modern electronic society have happened int the past (1850s). Nuclear EMP weapons that can do the same are already in the hands of N. Korea as well as Russia, China and Mideast countries. Several recent close calls with banking collapse in the last 30 years. Several close calls with USSR (confrontational and unintentional) in the last 50 years. Not to mention possible virus threats (1918 flu killed 4% of world population) that could kill enough people to shut down the food supply. Then there are terrorist with nukes from Pakistan and Russia that keep misplacing their plutonium. Just a matter of time.
In any case if you add up all these possibilities the total probability for deaths/starvation (yours and mine)due to catastrophe in the next 20 years is getting higher.

[–] Naughty-God 10 years ago

Catastrophes happen every day in all parts of the world and USUALLY they don't result in societies falling apart. In areas like Russia/Ukraine and the Middle-East you've had conflicts happening there for centuries so it's nothing new when you think about it.

EMPs? Nuclear Fallout? Al Qaeda invading rural America? You're more likely to get struck by lightening.

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[–] Naughty-God 10 years ago

Either you're describing a suicide (where they intend to die) or someone being murdered BUT I highly doubt they would be thinking "so far, so good.."

[–] Agent_f00 10 years ago

They don't become cavemen. But people in those areas sometimes see a temporary (could be years if you're talking historically) suspension of the goods and services they normally receive from society. And I'm sure some of them wish they had some extra water laying around when it did.

[–] dinerfood-901-211557 9 years ago

This is not about liberal-conservative nonsense, it has to do with people believing in the second coming of Christ and the Apocalypse. The militias tie into this and a whole lot of Christian right-wing types. And the liberal is simply anyone who doesn't agree with your world view, that's the new definiton the old one was minorities, women, Jews (a mind trick, the expression took off its overalls and put on a suit).

The show has a lot of common-sense info (solar, self-reliance, cheaper living, and so on) that you could make a show out of without the hidden eschatology. Why hide just come out and say the religious view but that's not politically correct for TV. It would make it less than a geek show.

On some level the show's participants are right it is the end of the world for some because your jobs are not coming back and your children will not have the life and opportunity you might have had. There's a great story of vast cross-section of Americana and they miss it entirely.