The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
Campbell is tremendously overestimating how much extreme prepping actually increases your chances of survival. Keeping a week or two of food, water, and energy is smart, but &quot;zombie prepping&quot; is useless:<p>Revolutionary War: Unless they chose to fight, the &quot;middle class&quot; of independent farmers wasn&#x27;t much affected (though I&#x27;ll admit they were already zombie-prepped). The poor did the dying, and the elites got kicked out.<p>Civil War: Much more calamitous, but little that could be done about it. If you were displaced, your stocks of supplies were reduced to only what you could escape with. If you were killed violently, well, no point buying a gun when you&#x27;ll be given one before sent charging into artillery fire.<p>Russia: See Civil War above. And just for fun, remember that having a large private store of grain wasn&#x27;t exactly smiled upon during collectivization.<p>France: While farmers were undoubtedly more food-secure than their urban compatriots during occupation, those who cached guns and joined the Resistance weren&#x27;t exactly making the safe choice.<p>China&#x2F;North Korea&#x2F;Vietnam: See Russia above<p>Africa: Is an entire continent, and reducing its 1.2 billion inhabitants to &quot;where to begin&quot; is incredibly insulting to their individual histories and experiences. But if we&#x27;re talking colonialism, advising people to buy land is a bit out of touch, don&#x27;t you think?