Friday, May 10, 2013

Cats in a dog world, ants in a grasshopper world

Somebody on Wrong Planet recently said that people with Aspergers are "cats in a dog world", meaning that "aspies" function more like cats and normal people more like dogs. Aspies are independent and willful, while most people just follow their pack. It occurred to me that the same dichotomy is at work with preppers vs non-preppers. It is frequently said that preppers are the industrious ants, laying in supplies during good times to survive bad times, while normals are grasshoppers, enjoying themselves during good times, partying the night away, then when bad times hit they are totally unprepared and figuratively freeze to death in the snow while the ant is warm and fed in his hole.

To be a prepper, you have to show a willingness to be independent and to swim upstream, many times our own families don't understand us and laugh. My mother keeps saying "what will be will be, no sense worrying about it" and "we will get through it". I see empty platitudes as just stupid in the face of pending economic collapse, and can only hope that I can get my own land before SHTF, since mom won't let me have meat animals or a garden.

The pack mentality is at work, since everybody else is buried in their iTrash and only care about Dancing With The Stars, who are we to intrude on their fun. Hey guys, the Fed is printing $85 billion a month. So what, they say, nothing will happen. And besides American Idol is far more important! Right? If they bother to watch the "news", it's on ObamaVision and everything is just great thanks to the Fearless Messiah, the economy is booming, people are back at work, la de dah. People simply don't want to prep, they don't want to understand what it's like to be independent. Fine, starve then.

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