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The purpose of crisis prep is not to see you through any imaginable crisis but to buy you time. Applies to both resources (financial and non) and intellectual (scenarios, contingency plans). The stockpile running out is fine. Wasting the time it bought you is not.
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I think this is the idea I see missing in prepper culture (or at least the caricature thereof in pop culture) that makes it seem crackpot to me. They don’t seem to think in time-buying terms but “indefinite survival without thinking” mode if SHTF. Toilet-paper-for-life attitude.
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It seems like a lot of preppers are motivated by a desire to abdicate responsibility to process the complexity and ambiguity of present civilized life. They wish things were simple.
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