Survival Style?

[Scythe13]

Wow, I must have been eating some weird protein today!!! Having plenty of deep(ish) philosophical thoughts on prepping today.

This is a real curious one.

There are clearly a lot of military people on this forum. That's cool as there's a lot of information from the military.

While watching Naked and Afraid, it seemed the military guys would flake out pretty quickly, when compared to the more hippie style survival 'expert'. This got me thinking a lot about forums, survival, gear, and the alike.

We've all seen Duel Survival, where Cody (hippie minimalist survivalist style) goes up with Dave (Falsified all his credentials, but still managed to survive, and fool a nation or 2 in the process, military survivalist style). Both seem to have pros and cons.

This forum has mentioned meditation to keep the mind busy, while also speaking about everyone wearing boots (usually military spec).

Well, here is the fun bit. As far as I can tell, neither has the real advantage over the other, but both have specific advantages over the other.

As I looked in to this more, and thought about my own preferences for certain situations, as well as my knowledge that I've picked up over the years, I've started to think about things in a different way.

As an example, and please don't focus on this example! The example is just that, it's a bit of evidence of my thought process. The overall principles flow into every scenario, technique, and the alike, from fire starting, to lock picking, to shelter building, water purifying, fighting, and all the rest! So look at the holistic prepping process, not the specific of running, okay back to the example....for running, I prefer to run in my Vibrams. They provide the protection from the floor, while also imitating bare foot running, which is proven to be the healthiest for your body, lowest impact on your joints, and overall the best way to run long distance (it's also the most natural way to run and the way the human body was designed to do so). So, I don't like to run in boots. I greatly prefer to go 'hippie' style in regard to my footwear. I'm not a massive boot fan, but that's not the subject in question (leave if for another thread if you want to speak boots vs other footwear).

So, with this in mind, what style of prepper do you feel you lean more towards?