(05-21-2023, 12:23 AM)Infolurker Wrote: LOL, you will enjoy this... I am actually going to post a thread about the fallacy of bugging out.
Good video. Here are a few points he didn't have time to touch upon.
How many of those folks have even thought far enough ahead to have a battery-powered (off their vehicle batteries) sump-pumps to get gas out of the underground storage tanks when the power grid - and so the power to the pumps - goes down? Not many I'd wager - folks have gotten too used to "always there" electricity to pump their gas for them without thought. So what happens when those folks start running out of gas after one tank full, and their vehicles start clogging up the roads?
The hills are full of hilbillies. They know the lay of the land, and it's support capacity. they are not going to allow interlopers (who do NOT know the terrain as we do) to come in and rape their resources, especially in numbers. I expect that, around here at least, bridges on approaches in will be among the first casualties. That will leave any stalwarts still hell-bent on heading for the hills on foot. Not very many are going to be hardy enough to make that trek... and those few will be easier to deal with, and they WILL be dealt with. We can't afford to just give up what resources we have out here in the hinterlands. Urbanites are better off staying home and raiding their local Costco. They won't live forever that way, but they'll live longer than they will coming out here.
Back in the day, let's say in the 1600's, 1700's and before... back before white folks started coming into these hills, the natives forted up in villages. maybe 200 or 300 folks per village. Now, keep in mind that resources were much greater back then, because they had not been hunted and foraged out, and populations were far lower and more dispersed. Even then, villages were moved on average every 20 years or so as areas were depleted by that village. the whole village would just pick up and move to another location, and start all over again, usually under the same name, because it was the same people. That's why there were 5 separate locations for "Chilicothe" in Ohio for the Shawnee Chilicothe sept. The villages moved occasionally to get fresh resources and let the old location heal and repopulate.
So then, resources are finite out here, and we're not going to let outsiders eat us out of house and home.
Also keep in mind that back in those days, villages tended to disperse in the wintertime. They came together in the spring and summer to raise communal crop fields, but they dispersed in winter time into family-sized "procurement camps" to winter over. This is one of the reasons tribal areas were so big - it takes a lot more than one would think to sustain a population, and they had to have enough area to disperse into that they wouldn't deplete the entire territory.
We know how to take care of our territory out here, and even at that it's not going to be easy... no way in hell we'll let invaders come in and ruin the land for US! Urbanites are better off bugging in than bugging out - most of them will never see home again if they try to come out here and displace us. You remember all the stories of explorers (and more recently "revenooers") who went into the wilderness and never came back out? There's a reason for that.
They'll just end up with their heads on poles at someone's gate.
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