(11 December 2012, 20:10)Tibbs735 Wrote: The same people that laugh and criticize survivalists (For some reason I have come to dislike the term prepper) are living on borrowed time.
People also tend to tend to laugh at stuff that they do not understand, is alien to them, or when it makes them feel uncomfortable on a subconscious level.
By laughing at someone who knows how to deal with a choking baby, has food stored up, or knows how to defend themselves, they are mentally distancing themselves from thinking about how they would handle that scenario.
It's the same reason that we see people losing everything to wars, rebellions and natural disasters on TV, but people never want to consider what would happen if it happened, god forbid, in merry old England. They will do anything to maintain their comfortable illusion. It's like Brave New World; they have come to love their chains, and will push away people attempting to free their minds.
You are so right in all respects. I have a tough job that requires me to make split second decisions and to be accountable for them.
Although I work in a team, most of that team shirk their responsibilities, they are not truthful and they sometimes can be quite cowardly. Yet am I appreciated for my efforts and hardwork? No, because I do what is right I'm considered by them to be weird, a loner and someone to be careful around.
I suppose that as preppers (I hate that word too) Survivalists, the same stigma is attached to us. We can just be glad that the people who mean everything to us feel the same as we do.
Let's just hope that when the SHTF that the people who laugh at us don't have the last laugh and we can measure upto the mark and we can make a difference.
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