It’s possible to move across most terrain quietly and almost invisibly – especially if you can move at night and lie up during the day. If you’re willing to live out of your pack, a lone prepper can move pretty much undetected. Plenty of prepper groups fall apart at the best of times, even without the stress of the world falling down around them – and if a group breaks up under pressure, it’s liable to get ugly. If a group has leadership problems, too often people are so buy arguing about what to do that they don’t do anything. There aren’t any arguments about what to do if you’re doing it all yourself, and that can be a real plus. The USA has a long tradition of individualism, and it’s natural that many will fall back on it as a crisis begins. Some people are worried enough about the potential risks of a group that they prefer to go it alone.
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Related: How To Tell When People Are Lying to You (in a crisis) Rugged Individualists Others might decide to leave, and then what happens? Do they go with personal gear only, or can they take a share of group equipment? There’s potential for trouble here, especially if the guy who bought the radio is determined to take it with him when he hits the road. What if it turns out that, when the pressure’s on, not everyone gets along as well as you’d hoped? Groups need a clear chain of command, or people might start trying to take over. It’s not all rosy in the group garden, though. That isn’t a problem for the members of a group. Everyone will need basic personal gear, but things like radios, agricultural equipment and medical gear can be purchased jointly – either by paying into a group fund, or each member taking responsibility for one item. Instead of one person trying to learn everything, one can become an expert on power generation, another a ham radio user and someone else can learn about keeping small livestock.
A group can also share the load of learning new skills among its members. These might be people who already have valuable skills when they join, like doctors, farmers or combat vets. There’s a limit to how much any one person can know, but in a group you can afford to have specialists. There’s also the simple fact that a large group has a better chance of driving off looters than one man or woman on their own. A group can afford to rotate people through sentry duty while others work or rest. To maintain round-the-clock security takes several people – ask any Army veteran and they’ll tell you that even providing two sentries per squad gets tiring in a hurry. The problem is you’re also going to need sleep. You can’t just go to bed at night and rely on waking up if a burglar breaks a window you’re going to need security. If society collapses there are going to be potentially hostile people everywhere, whether it’s starving refugees desperate to get their hands on some food or criminal gangs trying to exploit the situation. This old saying is very literally true in a SHTF situation. Obviously most group members aren’t bound together by family ties, so what attracts them to the idea? In fact there are a few real strengths:
A group is just a family on a bigger, and usually looser, scale. If you have kids you’ll need to take care of them, and maybe the same goes for elderly relatives too.įamilies and others are also joining prepper groups in growing numbers. You all know how to get along together, you’ll probably start a crisis in pretty much the same place, and you’ll want to stick together for mutual protection anyway. Survival societiesįor preppers with a family there’s an obvious option work together as a family group. Does it make sense to join a prepper group, or are you better off relying entirely on your own skills and being a lone wolf? Both options have their supporters, but is there a clear winner? I think there is, and here’s why. The question is how self-reliant we need to be.
We’ve seen, time after time, that the government can’t look after people properly when things go wrong we need to be self-reliant. Those of us who want to be prepared know better. After all, why stockpile supplies at your own expense if you think, in any crisis, friendly government employees will be along to give you everything you need? That’s pretty obvious if you’re happy to depend on others to keep you safe and give you life’s necessities – and especially if you’re happy to depend on the government to do it – you probably won’t be too interested in prepping. Prepping is for people with an independent streak.
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