Survivalism

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/fashion/06survival.html?ei=5124&en=a6b25249a30293e3&ex=1365134400&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&pagewanted=all

I've been thinking the same thing for a while. I may be that kind of person who can imagine any and every kind of dystopian future, but what happens when it all truly comes right to our doorstep?

With socially-irresponsible corporations dominating government policy, we've been setting ourselves up for a very unpleasant future, and the bell may soon toll.

My mother and I sort of share the same kind of survivalist mindset, except hers is influenced by Discovery shows about natural disasters, whereas I'm influenced by the very real and very close possibility of a cataclysm of a series of political disasters of such magnitude and swiftness as to completely change our lives for the worst for a prolonged period of time. I'm talking about the combined forces of:

Islamic extremism
a. Middle East
b. Radicalization of Muslim populations in Europe
Bush's wars and the destruction of the American Constitution
Energy crisis
Expanding Economic crisis
Environmental crises:
a. Globalization of manual labor and deficient use of the land in farming
b. Climate Change
c. Peak Oil.
Christian Nationalism and End-Times Theology (John Hagee & John McCain: Proposal to Attack Iran to Initiate Second Coming)

The combined consequences of these "bad decisions" will be so large as to potentially cause our civilization to completely collapse. We have not been responsible and the time might soon come to pay.

But there are those of us who are not even indirectly responsible for these things, who know how badly we have been behaving. For us, BE PREPARED: Food, water, emergency supplies, etc. How can we live without society? What do we need in order to be independent of something that no longer exists?

Just know that we cannot depend on our government, as it cannot make responsible decisions.
It has become as such that we need to think for ourselves.