Survival

90 Days without Juice: Welcome Back to 1850 America

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Electricity was once a luxury. Today, it is the invisible life-support system of modern civilization. Take the grid away for three months and the problem isn’t simply darkness—it’s water, sewage, refrigeration, medicine, fuel, communications, and millions of people discovering that civilization has outsourced most of their basic survival skills. America’s Achilles’ heel may not be that an enemy can defeat our military, but that someone could disrupt the enormous electrical extension cord connecting nearly everything that keeps us alive.

The Wolf, the Myth, and the People Who’ve Never Lived in the Woods

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There’s a reason our ancestors didn’t hold hands, light candles, and sing to wolves. They eradicated them. Not out of ignorance, not out of cruelty, but out of lived experience. Wolves weren’t abstract symbols on a Patagonia catalog; they were competitors, livestock killers, and a direct threat to survival.

James Carvill – Ragin When He Should Be Chillin

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The first rule of survival is to make decisions with your head rather than your hormones. Emotional decision making rarely enhances one’s chances of survival. One should avoid the anger, fear, and panic; coldly consider the options available; and select the best course of action, even if it’s not perfect. In other words, don’t behave like the Democrats currently are.