@pluralistic

Gods I've gotten so many books to read now.

Anyways, as someone who fancies himself a "rational prepper" I love the post!

It's always been my biggest criticism of right wing preppers that they're assuming they're the hero. That their singular stash of food, water, and guns is all they're going to need to save themselves and their family from the vague "end times" or "Boogaloo".

But they're not and society is not going to collapse like they do in zombie movies.

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.

https://craphound.com/radicalized/

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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 🙄