OK, good points. There is a spectrum here… if you live in a place where there’s a civil war every few years, then prepping for civil war makes a lot of sense. If you live in a place where the last civil war was 150 years ago, not so much.
CHAZ took place in a context where the most likely outcome was the failure of CHAZ, not the collapse of the larger society. CHAZ failed to prep for the obvious, if not the almost inevitable.
I’d be careful with thinking of prepping as a binary “do/don’t prep” distinction. If you live somewhere where a civil war happens every 2-3 years, the expected value of something that only has value in a civil war scenario is much higher than if one happens every 150 years or so. However, that doesn’t mean you should “prep” in one case and not the other, just that some actions that would be worth it if civil wars were frequent are not worth it if civil wars are infrequent. Water may be useful in both, but training your friends in wilderness survival or whatever, maybe less so.
Indeed. I think it’s pretty clear there are a few basic prepping things (such as water storage) which are well worthwhile whatever the risk, because they’re cheap and potentially life-saving. And some useful halfway houses—eg re wilderness survival, buying a book (but not going on a survival course) is a cheap option.
OK, good points. There is a spectrum here… if you live in a place where there’s a civil war every few years, then prepping for civil war makes a lot of sense. If you live in a place where the last civil war was 150 years ago, not so much.
CHAZ took place in a context where the most likely outcome was the failure of CHAZ, not the collapse of the larger society. CHAZ failed to prep for the obvious, if not the almost inevitable.
I’d be careful with thinking of prepping as a binary “do/don’t prep” distinction. If you live somewhere where a civil war happens every 2-3 years, the expected value of something that only has value in a civil war scenario is much higher than if one happens every 150 years or so. However, that doesn’t mean you should “prep” in one case and not the other, just that some actions that would be worth it if civil wars were frequent are not worth it if civil wars are infrequent. Water may be useful in both, but training your friends in wilderness survival or whatever, maybe less so.
Indeed. I think it’s pretty clear there are a few basic prepping things (such as water storage) which are well worthwhile whatever the risk, because they’re cheap and potentially life-saving. And some useful halfway houses—eg re wilderness survival, buying a book (but not going on a survival course) is a cheap option.