I was recommended a really good book by @valorforfreedom : Might is Right – free link to online version here. This was written approx 130 years ago and discusses the nature of humanity and how politics, religion and 'civilisation' has fucked everything up. We're heading for disaster. I'll be doing a full review of the book in the next day or so. Check it out... if you want.
Warning: may upset the politically correct and anyone that isn't white. Just sayin...
Anyway, this book got me thinking. When the world goes tits-up have you got any actual real-life skills? You can play a guitar, or do a bit of coding, or sell things in a shop or shuffle papers or count money... BUT could you survive a zombie apocalypse?
Water is pumped into our homes. We get much of our food ready to eat, sanitised, packaged, tinned, shrinkwrapped. Heat, air, light happens in our homes as if by magic. Many of our social needs are met via media devices. Police officers deal with our disputes. We wear massproduced manufactured tat that barely lasts a season. Many adults are on some sort of medication. We live in comfortable little amniotic sacs. All our basic needs are met.
We're like babies. Helpless babies. The government is our mum and dad. If they decide to cut the umbilical cord, then what? I'm not saying I'm paranoid, or anything, but is there a reason we're allowed to live like children, dependent on the government for all our basic needs?
Do you know how to care for chickens, farm animals? Slaughter, milk or butcher them? Can you sew, knit, crochet, work leather, forge steel, build with wood or stone?
That's great if you can, but you'd better learn how to fight too, you'd better have weapons, because my boys are coming to take what's there. Unless you've got the balls of a bufallo, this isn't gonna play out well for you.
If we run out of meat, we'll eat you. Unless you're vegan. You're safe for now, vegans. We'll save you till last because:
- a) you're not gonna eat our meat
- b) your bodies contain the most toxins
- c) it'll be amusing to see how you get on without fucking almond milk and Vitamin B12 injections
And don't worry about your veg plot. You can keep that. Who's gonna risk their life for brocolli?
Herrleeb's peerless shoes
These are the kinds of skills that should be kept alive. What a brilliant pair of shoes. Proper demonstration of skill, art and craft. Kudos all over the place, Herrleeb, man.