Is Camping and Bushcraft a part of prepping and survivalism? Your Views

[Scythe13]

(7 April 2014, 13:43)bigpaul Wrote: permanent solution is a post SHTF "civilisation".

In which case BP, you must recognise the massive role that people like BM would play in rebuilding society? A person skilled at trading would be key to the rebuilding of society. Many lone-wolves would not create a "civilisation" as by definition they would be alone, and not breeding, and thus the human race would end.

It is the trader, the deal maker, the person with multiple skills, that will survive the best. Adding business skills to your list would be of huge benefit when dealing with another group of people, and when negotiation various deals to grow a society where people work together. Even the Armish system requires people to work together in a multiplicital deal...someone had to originally build the terms of that agreement.

Bushcraft is not the be all and end all, but if a person is able to buy and sell, there is no reason they cannot have other skills. Bill Gates can build a successful business, run a charity, and heliski. He can also buy the side of a mountain and build a house/bunker into the side of it, that will provide much better protection than any of us are able to get...mainly because he's made it strong enough to withstand a direct strike from a missile.

Don't get caught into the trap of thinking because a person has 1 skill, it doesn't mean that is the only skill they have.