Yes they are. I have friends who have been off-grid for 20+ years and have never experienced a blackout. I myself have 40 acres that I manage completely off-grid. It is connected to no public utilities. It is not my primary residence and I fire the compound up and shut it down with very little work/maintenance. Simplicity to infrastructure systems are the key to maintaining said systems effectively.
This is a recurrent feature of prepers. The idea we should live like a 15th century peasant. It´s jew brainwash.
Neither me or my family will live like peasants. Managing 40 acres alone is a great feat. How do you do it? What is your primary residence?
Owning and maintaining a farm is time and money consuming. There´s no money in it. Only expenses. You will need to have a secondary source of income. I have passive income and occasional lawyer work. Which pays for it. But a farm is economically a loss.
Neither people should all live in wilderness. The dumbest thing I have heard is the idea people should all be preppers. They shouldn´t. Doctors, engineers. Society would stop working. Doctors leave your practice and stop healing people and become preppers. That would work great.
This is the difference between America and Europe. In Europe you're screwed because of geography and lack of land that is secluded enough and yes, if the power outage would have lasted two weeks you wouldn't have seen the kumbaya stories of "the stores will give people credit to buy food and they can pay them back later," you would have seen an unraveling of society that would have led to violence and chaos.
The outage could have lasted two weeks. And nothing would happen. In the first two weeks of August if you travel to Europe there´s maybe less services than in the blackout. Cause everybody is on holidays. It´s just like in a holiday.
It´s not Kumbaya. It´s reality. Europeans will not breakdown. People will revolt against government. Not against each other. Maybe I´m wrong but I don´t recall ever historically how west european people went against each other in a crisis. But maybe I´m wrong. We will hunt the government. Kill them and replace them by more competent people.
If there´s no gas people will walk. And skip work.
If there´s no electricity people will use fire.
If there´s no food. People will kill government. And replace it.
There´s always water. But getting it will be less convenient.
I see a breakdown as a fast ticket to living in a slum. That´s it. You will live in a slum. What I fear is the lost of comfort my children deserve.
The basic fundamentals for a person to live are actually simple. You need food, water and medicine. All the rest are layers of comfort and convenience on top of it. If there´s a breakdown you lose comfort. That´s it. You pass from 1st world to 3rd world in 24h. And if there´s no organization you kill the one and replace it by another one. Leadership doesn´t disappear neither good and brave man. Power is never empty.
There´s enough natural fountains for people to walk and get water from. Everywhere there´s fountains. You know where there were water without queues? cemeteries.
There´s never chaos in Europe. Unless you are being invaded. Or the governments systematically sabotage the population. Which is now lightly happening. And new organizations and parties are emerging. Cause if the leader is bad. He is replaced. Power is dynamic.
The best place to be is 1st world countries. You don´t want to be in a shithole when the shtf. Unless there´s a war. I would proobably stay (depending on the reason if they say they will kill jews I will not fight them) but send family overseas.
Sure there is, but it's probably not going to go down like that. In Europe it might because there is no where to run (on the North American continent there is still plenty of open space), but a collapse will be gradual with major 911/European blackout type events coupled with smaller events of inconvenience like with Covid (no toilet paper, no eggs, lockdowns, etc.). It's not just going to go from hero to zero in our lifetime. It's just time to stop relying on others (government, etc.) for your fuel, electricity, food, and water and to start praying for the best while preparing for the worst. Prepping isn't about panicking in fear, it's about calmly and methodically taking your power back from globohomo world jewry by refusing to be a slave to (((their))) systems of financial usury (banking, electric grid, food production, etc.).
This is Hollywood/Netflix shit (sorry to say this since I generally apreciate your posts). You need to rely on others. Taking the power back is not abandoning the structures. It´s replacing the leaders in them with good men. Who will steer them to good directions.
There´s enough wilderness in Europe. You can go to a mountain and disappear. But who would want to live that way.
I sometimes see the reality show Alone. Great show. People can´t sustain for too long. You are alone in the wilderness break a leg and die. That´s it.
This is a fantasy. Created by jewish Hollywood and Jewflix.
Apartments in the city are better than living outdoors close to nature?
They are 10000000x better. A farm is your life. It´s not your house. It´s what you do everyday. Not leaving space or time to do anything else. An apartment is just a place you go to sleep and your life is dedicated to other things. You are always outside the appartment.
Managing a farm is impossible without other incomes.
But I´m not the type to complain. The apartment is rented and it´s time to move back in. And the farm will be a backup. Which due to it´s costs I need to find a way to lower the costs or create more income.
That is the modern human conditioned mind speaking.
No. it´s simple reality.
Farms are indeed a lot of work. Think smaller. You only need enough food for one person (in my case) and 3 or 4 if you have a family. No need to have a "farm" just a large tract of wilderness land. Forests don't need to be maintained and work as a great barrier to intruders and the trees can also be harvested for fuel and building material. But again, this is a moot point in Europe so I understand your sentiment/predicament.
Any house is a lot of work.
What´s the main difference? A building with several apartments any cost of maintenance is divided by 20/30 people who live in apartments. Just a simple villa the cost is totally on one family.
The maintenance is contracted to a company. In a farm you do everything.
What´s the upside you can control and decide alone.
Europe has plenty of wilderness. If not the same has percentage probably not far away than US. You just leave 20mnts outside a city and there´s miles and miles of forests.
What most people need is to recondition themselves to live simpler lives where less material pleasure becomes greater spiritual fulfillment. Most people don't want to do this because they are addicted to sense pleasures and their "ideas" about the world like "farms suck and are difficult to manage, plus it's boring out in the wilderness and besides it'll do you no good because inner city blacks will find you and when they attack your wilderness compound there will be no neighbors to help you, etc., etc., etc."... All solvable problems because they will most likely never come to fruition.
Material pleasure? We could go back living in caves. How about that? This is what I think when I hear environmentalists talking. Go live in a cave. Or when they say there´s too much construction. But they live in a city in a building.
It will not be blacks. If really things become bad. It will be your neigbhoor. The people who know more about you. Conflict happens due to lack of resources.
People shouldn´t abandon society and live in the wilderness. They need to get their act together and start participating in civil society. You need to have the equivalent of a government generator. If the government fails. A backup must start functioning.
And this is what western people need to start thinking. Create a blue print to take hold of the government and critical services if the government fails. Not living like Tarzan.
Here´s how I will prepare. Plane tickets have dropped significantly because the sheep are scared. So time to make a grand trip by Italy for the kids to learn the classics. Like I did when I was young. They already had to put up with corona. Now a blackout. What is this? From Rome to Milan.
I´m not a victim. Or a peasant. Neither are my kids.
Was actually thinking on going to Disneyworld. Trump has scared tourism. It´s a good time also. Maybe we do both.
New organizations and leaders are emerging. Nobody can stop the people. Not even jews. If I were jew I would start thinking on converting. Because people are starting to be fed up. How much money for corona? How much money for Ukraine? Now Iran? Who is paying for all this shit?
And Gaza. What is that shit? Arabs are retarded. But you don´t do that to an animal. At least put the arabs in trains. Or airplanes. Killing entire families. They will never forgive us. And it will be like that mafia Brooklyn movie. Where the boss leader gets shot by the son of one dude they had killed.
Women will start complaining. Woman are the ones who will pressure man. When women get fed up. Trees will start having new decors. I will not attack my neighboor. But I will hang the city municipality leaders. I have kids. So let the ones without children to act first.
If you are really worried. The best bet is livinng in place where the majority is europeans.