(upd 3/31/18) Article - Survival, Thirteenth Century Style

[TWP]

This is a multi-part article and I will update this post as the other parts become available.

First, we prep for many reasons and for many possible events, not all of which are EOTW ( End Of The World) level.

The author makes the point about SURVIVING after a major event.  The question "Why do we prep?" is answered and answered well in my opinion.

Part 1)   https://survivalblog.com/survival-thirteenth-century-style-part-1-snow-wolf/

Part 2)  https://survivalblog.com/survival-thirteenth-century-style-part-2-snow-wolf/

An unspoken theme is that community is needed for survival.  One person, alone, will be reduced to the life of a scavenger.  Even a couple of people cannot, between them, possess and perform the needed skills to return to a semblance of our current lifestyle.

This article makes it plan that we will need both extensive libraries of knowledge AND cooperation with (many) other people to start the rebuilding process.

DO READ!  Plus the comments which follow each part.

In the first part, the author gives a recommendation to read this article:

"What the IRS plans to Do in Case of a Nuclear War Will Leave You in Stitches"

Link:  http://readynutrition.com/resources/what-the-irs-plans-to-do-in-case-of-a-nuclear-war-will-leave-you-in-stitches_02052017/

First you can laugh, then consider crying, because this is how government thinks (if that is not an oxymoron).

As Ronald Reagan said "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem"...

I totally agree with this quote:

"Preppers who blissfully download book after book on an electronic device with the conviction that it’s now preserved forever are making another dangerous mistake. The further we get from the tangible, paper preservation of knowledge, the more precarious our knowledge base becomes and the more likely it is to be destroyed beyond recovery."

At the same time, I continue to download and archive documents/books/software, in the hope that the ability to read them will remain available, post-event.  Frankly, I don't have room to store the library of hard copy which would be needed for this information.