07-16-2011, 07:11 AM
In a dutch newspaper I read an interview with a guy from the tulsa912project (a tea party type organization in Oklahoma).
Most things this guy said I had no connection with at all (religious views, anti goverment views), but he finished with some words I could realy relate to.
It was about his preparations for crisis situations. He said he he prepared guns, ammunition, shelter and canned foods, for when the dollar would crash etc. This is probably a more common view in the US, but in Europe you don't hear much about this. We are probably to much convinced that our government will save us when things go wrong.
I personally can really relate with this. Maybe you can call it paranoid but I a also always thinking about what the best survival strategy would be when things go really wrong. (and I am quite convinced we will get periods with pretty deep crises because of things like population increase and climate change (the latter, funnily enough the tulsa guy didn't believe in).
I would like, my next house to be a free standing one with enough terrain, so that I can grow my own vegetables, and generate my own energy (probably the tulsa guy, also doesn't believe in solar energy
).
These tulsa people were also giving courses about how to preserve food when you can't run your freezers etc.....very interesting.
So although politically I find the views of these people a bit egoistic, I can surely relate to it in several ways. Because it doesn't matter how strong and well functioning government you have, when there is real crisis or war, everything gets ditched and you have to manage things on your own.
Most things this guy said I had no connection with at all (religious views, anti goverment views), but he finished with some words I could realy relate to.
It was about his preparations for crisis situations. He said he he prepared guns, ammunition, shelter and canned foods, for when the dollar would crash etc. This is probably a more common view in the US, but in Europe you don't hear much about this. We are probably to much convinced that our government will save us when things go wrong.
I personally can really relate with this. Maybe you can call it paranoid but I a also always thinking about what the best survival strategy would be when things go really wrong. (and I am quite convinced we will get periods with pretty deep crises because of things like population increase and climate change (the latter, funnily enough the tulsa guy didn't believe in).
I would like, my next house to be a free standing one with enough terrain, so that I can grow my own vegetables, and generate my own energy (probably the tulsa guy, also doesn't believe in solar energy
).These tulsa people were also giving courses about how to preserve food when you can't run your freezers etc.....very interesting.
So although politically I find the views of these people a bit egoistic, I can surely relate to it in several ways. Because it doesn't matter how strong and well functioning government you have, when there is real crisis or war, everything gets ditched and you have to manage things on your own.