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Please explain #4. I don’t get it.
I’m not a doomsday prepper (I found this post on all) but I want chickens and ducks. I guess doomsday prepping is similar to poverty survival - buy bulk foods that will last, grow what you can for perishables (ideally those that produce too much so you can share and increase your standing - money or reputation, whatever the currency is) preserve what you can.
I mean don’t get me wrong - I am preparing for the collapse by doing the same things anyone in poverty does because poverty is a slow personal collapse, I just know I’ll likely be an early casualty, being disabled, depending on the ultimate “cause”. I have about 6 months worth of non-perishables if that’s all I ate (grew up very food insecure) and as long as electric doesn’t die before I can harden off my plants to UV, I have some hydroponic crop plants that should keep me afloat until I can sow more seed (I do have a doomsday prepper pack of 45 food crop seeds in sealed containers in my freezer, but it’s unrelated to prepping, and more about the variety of seeds I wanted and never got around to planting)
I guess it's about prepping being addictive, and I guess "apocalypse swapping" is basically rationalizing such an addiction with whatever is the most pressing threat at the moment.
To quote the article:
I'm personally prepping more for disasters. Most of my friends who are into the same lifestyle basically want to have a certain standard of life/living in the aftermath of a disaster. I mean, I don't want to be living in some tent city relying on government rations.
Thank you for the explanation, I appreciate it. :)
I hope your (and loved ones’) prepping gets you (and loved ones) through whatever is to come for you!