Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The new survivalists
The preparedness meme continues to intrude on the MSM. This from MSNBC:
With foreclosure rates running rampant, financial institutions teetering and falling, prices for many goods and services climbing, and jobs being slashed, many Americans are making preparations for worse times ahead. For some, that means cutting spending and saving more. For others, it means taking a step into survivalism, once regarded solely as the province of religious End-of-Timers, sci-fi fans and extremists.This isn't news to regular readers, but I enjoyed the reference to our favorite daily preparedness read, Survivalblog.
That often manifests itself as a desire to secure basic emergency resources — what survival guru Jim Wesley Rawles describes as “beans, bullets and Band-Aids.”
Rawles, speaking by phone from an “undisclosed location” somewhere between the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains, said he has seen traffic on his Web site, SurvivalBlog.com, explode in the last year.
1 Comments:
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Suburban Survivalist Blogger, at
Thu Oct 23, 01:18:00 AM:
Jim Wesley Rawles has a great website, and he lives what he talks about on his blog. He also wrote a great book (fiction) about living this type of life after teotwawki.
