Originally posted by Flick:
airforce, neither is the author a Luddite. He is not opposed to technology. His point is that, when we use technology connected to or reliant on the grid, we must ask ourselves that we won't have it in a collapse. If possible, and if it's something we feel we need, are there pre-electricity ways of achieving the same thing? He calls himself an agrarian separatist, and I read just today that he home churches as well as home schools.
Most people who plan for when the PHTF are actually not planning to survive. They're planning to make it over the hump until things return to "normal." A solar system, generators, windmills, batteries, etc. will last only so long. If the P continues to HTF for a long time, this kind of preparedness won't help; it will only delay being affected by a collapse.
The author points out that everything we need to survive is readily available to us, but because of our dependence on electricity, we have forgotten how to make use of them. Our ancestors knew, for example, how to make a house that stayed cool in the summer in the southern states before grid-supplied air conditioning. Before electricity, our ancestors knew how to store vegetables for long periods of time. These are a couple of examples.
He also points out that, if we're thinking that we'll "make the switch" when the PHTF, that won't work. He stresses that one should make the move now to that lifestyle so that, much like the Amish, we wouldn't notice or care if the grid went down or food stopped getting trucked to the grocery stores or gasoline went to $27 per gallon.
One of the more appealing aspects (to me) of making the switch is the cost savings. Done right, one wouldn't need to work a mind-numbing job for 40 hours of every week.
What you posted is just one of the reasons I believe as I do.
me
One thing is Man does not belong living in large cities but should have remained in Villages and small towns and living an Agrarian lifestyle if possible.
When Mankind moved from Villages and Small Towns into Mega Cities like we have now with NYC and Chicago et al. the coming situation caused by the loss of Critical Infrastructure was inevitable.
Reading that book will not change one single thing for people who are trapped in Mega Cities the only way to survive is to get out of the City and move to a good rural area where they can have a chance to survive.
If you live in a Big City and there is no more Electricity you might as well put your head between your legs and Kiss Your Sweet Ass Goodbye.
By the way I currently live in a City, not a very big City but just big enough that I would have a very very small chance of Survival. I am hoping to be able to move to a small town near Phoenix before the Stinky Stuff Hits The Fan, if I can't make it there in time then I will join the Kiss My Sweet Ass Goodbye contingent.
