As I read this article, I was not surprised to see that the changing market conditions have goosed many; what surprised me is that so many liberal minded people are now the gun-toting survivalists that were once squarely the domain of conservatives. The article documents several families who have moved to “secret” locations, growing their own food, slaughtering chickens and pigs. One has taken to reading books from her great-grandma’s generation; she’s learning how to make soap.
Their motives are solidly liberal-wacko; they believe that an oil and food crisis is looming and soon they will have to defend their stashes of food from hungry marauding gangs.
The most startling fact is that except for the God stuff, these people sound exactly like the End-Times people. There may be no threat of God dividing the world into those who have believed and not, but there is a lot of talk about the end of the world as we know it. Both Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter have made the point that liberalism is a religion; Rush has gone so far as to say that Global Warming itself is a religion. When the facts are so strikingly laid bare, it’s impossible to find any sort of rational, logical, basis for either the eco-disaster-End-Timers or the God’s-Majorly-Pissed-End-Timers. The religious End-Timers have a slight advantage though; they at least have been completely consistent for two thousand years. The eco-people are now having to change their opinions on guns, violence, vegetarianism, and most importantly, reliance on government. In my opinion, if just one liberal is in his thatched hut, clutching his gun and nibbling on a celery stalk, and he knows in the bottom of his heart that if a group of hungry, armed people come to his door wanting to take that celery stalk, the problem will not be solved with diplomacy or dialogue, then perhaps all this nonsense will work out for the greater good – a concept liberals embrace.
That was beautifully put my dear.
I have long noticed that most of my off the grid friends are actually liberals living in a rebellious sort of life. They some how think they invented living off the land.. or something like that. It looks like a lot of unnecessary self-inflicted household chores if you ask me.
There are many of these books that tell you how to do it. One I was given is called “The simple living guide” It tells you how to make you own everything etc.
Whenever my husband gets the impulse to start a compost pile instead of throwing the stuff in the can like he’s suppose to I remind him very, very, loudly WE DON’T GROW ANYTHING.. WE ARE NOT FARMERS. And BTW dear, you don’t like to garden and I am not about to start. I told him he can be a farmer when he retires. hee. hee.
I love the idea of living on a compound and being totally self-reliant just like I love the idea of wearing a dress with nylons and heels every day. Then I remember I hate wearing a dress and heels and I kill every plant I come in contact with… I might not be cut out for it, but I really admire people who do this. Well I admire them for the self-sufficient aspect of it anyway.
I did away with the heels and nylons a decade ago. I have managed to plant a few avocado trees, a couple of citrus, a coconut tree, bananas, papaya, and I even managed to get two pineapples to grow in one part of my yard. But this required absolutely no skill other than digging a hole in the ground and putting something in it that would grow. If I had to survive on this I would have starved to death already. Chickens run around wild but I have never attempted to eat one .. yet. I think making my own wine might be the biggest safety net I could throw for myself.
Do you prefer this kind of attitude?
http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/edap-primer/