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@pluralistic The dumbest fucking thing about #preppers : imagine if, instead of "preparing" for some imagined future crisis, they put all that thought and time and energy into taking care of their communities and the immediate problems thereof.
Maybe the great crash/disaster/apocalypse /revolution wouldn't seem so imminent then.
But they'd have to care beyond just themselves 🙄
In the short story collection _Radicalized_ by @pluralistic, you'll find _The Mask of the Red Death_.
It brutally interrogates the assumptions of the kind of right-wing prepper you're describing @Nagaram. They've used their big brains, they've thought of everything they will need, they are *prepped*.
And they are woefully underprepared. Because a bunker of a dozen people, shut off from the outside world, *cannot* be self-sustaining.
It does not end well. Strongly recommended.
“Neoliberalism's mind-zap is to convince us all that our only role in society is as an individual”
- @pluralistic
