This post has more than one gravitational point, and i love that. I know you're right, that community and trust is what's needed to survive. And that it's "sexy" to prepare for the Big Event type disaster, but the slower moving ones are already here and bunkers are the wrong defense...
I remember your old article about bunkers and this kind of sums things up. The bottom line is that no matter how good your bunker is, someone will try to take it away from you. If you have a community of likeminded people on the other hand, there is a certain sense of safety in numbers. A community bunker would be a good thing but even then, there will always be someone who doesn't like something and make things miserable for everyone else in the community. The old saying about how two people in a barrel can learn to get along but as soon as you add a third person, all bets are off. Especially if there are two males and the third is a female.
Being rich enough to afford a bunker automatically makes you a target for those without a bunker who want one. Then the cycle continues as there will always be someone else who wants that bunker and so it goes.
Myself, I prefer the nomadic life so that I can avoid the dangerous idiots.
Yep, and when I dug into prepping communities it didn't take long at all to find Reddit threads where residents mention the Karens and Todds and all the unsavory details that get swept under the rug. It seems like once you break past 10-12 people, you start to run into problems. I guess it makes sense because humans took 1 million + years to evolve and our current social structures are a few hundred years old at best. We're literally not built for this.
Back in the 50s and early 60s in the days of CONELRAD and the cold war some of the wealthier folks built fancy fallout shelters which typically wound up being used as wine cellars, etc.. The government actually had free plans available via civil defense.
This stuff fascinates me and I’d love to have a bunker, but I feel pretty safe in my cul-de-sac with neighbors who actually take an interest in each other.
It's really shit that people make such demands and then when you try to accommodate them, they get angry that it isn't as easy as they think it should be. Everything looks so easy from the outside ("Why don't you just change the name?") So instead of being kind and giving some grace, they just toddle off like the toddlers they are. I have no use for most people anymore.
This post has more than one gravitational point, and i love that. I know you're right, that community and trust is what's needed to survive. And that it's "sexy" to prepare for the Big Event type disaster, but the slower moving ones are already here and bunkers are the wrong defense...
I remember your old article about bunkers and this kind of sums things up. The bottom line is that no matter how good your bunker is, someone will try to take it away from you. If you have a community of likeminded people on the other hand, there is a certain sense of safety in numbers. A community bunker would be a good thing but even then, there will always be someone who doesn't like something and make things miserable for everyone else in the community. The old saying about how two people in a barrel can learn to get along but as soon as you add a third person, all bets are off. Especially if there are two males and the third is a female.
Being rich enough to afford a bunker automatically makes you a target for those without a bunker who want one. Then the cycle continues as there will always be someone else who wants that bunker and so it goes.
Myself, I prefer the nomadic life so that I can avoid the dangerous idiots.
Yep, and when I dug into prepping communities it didn't take long at all to find Reddit threads where residents mention the Karens and Todds and all the unsavory details that get swept under the rug. It seems like once you break past 10-12 people, you start to run into problems. I guess it makes sense because humans took 1 million + years to evolve and our current social structures are a few hundred years old at best. We're literally not built for this.
Back in the 50s and early 60s in the days of CONELRAD and the cold war some of the wealthier folks built fancy fallout shelters which typically wound up being used as wine cellars, etc.. The government actually had free plans available via civil defense.
Fond memories from the ’70s of my boyfriend playing his electric guitar in the bomb shelter in his home.
This stuff fascinates me and I’d love to have a bunker, but I feel pretty safe in my cul-de-sac with neighbors who actually take an interest in each other.
It's really shit that people make such demands and then when you try to accommodate them, they get angry that it isn't as easy as they think it should be. Everything looks so easy from the outside ("Why don't you just change the name?") So instead of being kind and giving some grace, they just toddle off like the toddlers they are. I have no use for most people anymore.