| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/04/07, 6:51 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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April 5, 2013
In reading this article, what is most interesting is that the comments generally all disagree with the author. He dismissed progressive "preppers" because they don't follow his "fear based" motive for prepping. Also, many are not into arming themselves as they are more interested into stuffing communal root cellars. And this article was from "The Nation".
The following article first appeared in the Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for their email newsletters here.Fear itself, President Franklin Roosevelt famously observed in his First Inaugural Address, can present the greatest obstacle to progress.
It can easily overwhelm our discourse, paralyze our politics, and
splinter the social construct that binds us together as a people. Given
enough time, this fear might even convince some that our democratic
institutions are a lost cause, our shared problems obviously
insurmountable, our collective solutions hopelessly inadequate. In this
frightening world, then, the only safe bet worth making is on oneself. To get a sense of how part of America is going all-in on this bet look no further than National Geographic Channel’s hit reality show Doomsday Preppers. Filmed in an unblinking documentary style, each show profiles a few
individuals from the modern-day survivalist movement, all of whom have
become convinced that the arrival of a stark, dystopian future is only a
matter of when, not if. Though even FEMA believes we’d all be better
off doing a little prepping, for these folks, not preparing for what they see as unavoidable
disaster is a life-or-death gamble. And though the show often descends
into caricature, dismissing the popularity of Doomsday Preppers as mere pop-cultural voyeurism would be a mistake.
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