Re:Endgame: how Australian preppers are bugging out and hunk...
by sgt101 on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:56AM
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Honestly : go out and engage with your community.
If things go wrong you will be far more likely to get by if people know you, like you and are prepared to look out for you or throw you a bone. Your neighbours probably won't look after you unless you are an exceptional person, but they may well feed your family once or twice, help you board up or fix a roof (on the tacit understanding that you will do the same for them) or trust you more than the scary bunch in pickup trucks.
Really - social ties would count more than anything. Collective action is much more potent than machine guns.
If things go wrong you will be far more likely to get by if people know you, like you and are prepared to look out for you or throw you a bone. Your neighbours probably won't look after you unless you are an exceptional person, but they may well feed your family once or twice, help you board up or fix a roof (on the tacit understanding that you will do the same for them) or trust you more than the scary bunch in pickup trucks.
Really - social ties would count more than anything. Collective action is much more potent than machine guns.