Degringolade

Taishō period (1912–1926) / Hiroshi Yoshida/ Avenue of Cherry Trees

I really don’t think that we can help ourselves.  It is kinda baked into the cake at this point.  We are a culture composed primarily of missionaries.  We spend most of the time in our personal and political interactions (granted, the two are getting difficult to distinguish) making certain that everyone around us agrees with our way of beliefs and the qualities of our thinking.  We can’t help ourselves.  It is just what we do.

Oh, we pay lip service to “freedom of speech” but the Overton window is getting smaller over the years, not larger.  

We point to our “successes” but even they are kind of pale.  Inclusion and diversity just means that everyone has the same limited range of thought and it had better be within the prescribed bounds set by our betters.

Because you see, we are no different than the folks back in Salem in the day.  

TGIF as always.

The chef got me a-thinking.  Being attached to or being a pseudo-doomer has routine problems attached to such an endeavor.  Trying to plan in a rational manner means that one has to have a pretty good grasp of the problems lying ahead of you and trying to not overdo things to try and anticipate and prepare for every external disruption.

But to do so, one also has to evaluate one’s state of mind and the interplay of that variable works with the data coming in from the outside to fully establish the way that your brain works within the overall system and what “governors” you need to put into place to make certain that your life decisions aren’t inappropriate to the situation.

So, in order to facilitate this personal self-inventory I kinda think that the “survivalist” spectrum needs to be taken out occasionally, dusted off, and one's own behavior examined and one’s motives evaluated.  

So, let's talk about the SurvSpec.  I have had this in the back of my brain for a long time.  I kinda got the idea from the old days of Matt Savinar, Mike Ruppert, Dmitri, and the long ago pre-archdruid JMG.  They planted the seed of the idea only, they bear no responsibility for me judging them and their long-ago ideas  and descriptions.

The description is a half-half-half amalgam of paranoia (and always remember, just because you're paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you), access to news sources, available free time, spousal buy-in, love of firearms, and free capital.  

As always, the rating is from zero to ten.  

The first thing about preppers to remember is that there is always an “Us and Them” aspect of the deal.  Preppers know the reality of the fact that there are in fact “conspiracies” going on all the time.  You can pretend that self-organizing groups of people organize to let everybody in, but the truth of the matter is that just ain’t so.  Groups organize to grab a bigger share of the pie to do things that they want to do what haven’t been done.  I think that this is a natural and normal thing.  

But these ad hoc organizations become permanent and become powerful.  In the case of an expanding pie, they usually suck off the new growth and no one really notices.  When the pie is shrinking, these groups can only grow by taking share from other groups.  This isn’t parasitism, this is just the natural nature of shifting alliances and variable societal goals.

But one has to remember that, even if you clinically evaluate the situation and realize that the redistribution is a normal part of a societal function and will play out as it plays out, your share of the pie is decreased and you will worry/get pissed off as your personality type allows.

So, the first goal is to rationally evaluate where you are on the paranoia scale.  If you think that the Bilderbergers and the International Jewish conspiracy is there to take your freedoms and revert your lifestyle to that of a medieval serf, you can put yourself down for a 10.  If you try to emulate Saint Francis of Assisi, put down a zero.

More to follow, got to go to work now.