What Does It Mean To Be A Modern Survivalist?

[Richard]

[Highlander]

I see survivalists as a different breed to a prepper,.. the US is full of survivalists, where as there are very few in the UK

A prepper, is not just someone who preps for the pandemic, or the social unrest, or the lack of fuel and so food,... but someone who also preps for old age, or a job loss.... a survivalist would never prepare him/herself for such things

A survivalist is someone who knows how to live off the land, a prepper is someone who learns to farm the land

This is not to say that both breeds cannot learn from each other, if we bug out, its good to be able to take a leaf from the survivalists book

But I do think, that in this county at least, they are two different types of person

[Midnitemo]

i've always thought of myself as a survivalist but not in the hairy arsed wander of into the wild blue yonder with nothing but a pointy stick but more the kind that takes his seat at the rear of aircraft/checks out the muster stations when he gets on ferries and won't get in a car with someone i think has been drinking kind of way....its just a state of mind with me and its alway's been that way.

[Mortblanc]

A prepper is simply someone that does not want to face the fact that they are a survivalist or have the term applied to them due to some imagined stigma.

A chicken can be in a battery cage or it can be free range, it's still a chicken

[Lightspeed]

[Nix]

Yup, agree with pretty much all of the above.

My guess is that most of us have been leaning to self sufficiency/survivalist/prepper for quite some time without even knowing it.