At some point, probably too late, most of us will
realize that the skills we currently possess will fail us miserably if “Doomsday”
ever really happens. Over the course of time I want to spend a lot of time on
individual skills but first I have to get people interested in the concept.
I’ve
mentioned before, that money is the only thing we currently need in today’s
world. Everything we need to live is for sale somewhere at some price. The most
essentials things are actually so cheap that we cannot grow or make them
economically. It is cheaper to buy them. What happens when we either run out
money or the products are no longer available because those that make them so
cheaply no longer exist? We still need food, shelter and clothing. If there is
nowhere to buy food, no one to build or rent us a house or make us the clothes
we like to wear….we’re screwed: Unless of course we have the skills to do each
of those things.
Hoarding
is not a long term solution. I will expand on that thought in a later article
but for now just take it for what it’s worth and look beyond the hoarding
aspects of “Doomsday Prepping”. Once the stockpile starts to run a little thin
we must find a way to replenish those things that we are running out of. The
first would most certainly be food. The good news is: Of all the things we need
to know how to do growing food is the easiest, but it still takes the know-how
to do it. It also takes enough vacant land to do it.
If
you currently live in the city, it is time to “get outta town”. One will not be
able to survive in a densely populated area for a host of reasons. Hank
Williams Jr. had a song out a long time ago called “A Country boy will survive”.
One of the lines goes like this: “a shotgun, a rifle and a one eyed dog, a
country boy will survive”. He was “right on” with that statement. If you are a “country
boy or girl” you know exactly what he means. If not, you need to figure it out.
The
purpose I have for all of this is about helping those who simply don’t
understand and to enlist the help of those who do. The good news is: I am a
country boy….born and bred and still live out here in the sticks. The bad new
is, I don’t possess nearly enough of the skills that I will likely need to
survive long term without the current infrastructure in place. My goal over the
next few years is to learn those skills and pass them along to you and others
like you. My selfish reason for all of the hours I spend thinking and writing
is to motivate me into learning those skills.
This
brings me to the title of my first post: Survival as a Hobby. My new hobby is writing about and learning
about the skillset that I will need to possess, if things go really, really bad
in our country. If they don’t go really bad, then I will have had a really good
time doing all of this: A worthwhile hobby that occupies my mind and my time
and provides me a lot of entertainment and self satisfaction. Even if I never
lose the ability to head down to McDonald’s for an Egg McMuffin on the way to
the grocery store I will enjoy the hell out of building a Dutch Windmill and
growing my own tomatoes.