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Originally Posted by Ari
Indeed, most preppers are prepping for the zombie apocalypse as seen in the movies, and thus are prepping to defend their castle against hordes and to do super market raids, until big daddy government/military restores order.
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It has not escaped my notice that the recent popularity of the zombie genre coincides with anxiety about poor brown people immigrating to rich white countries, great replacement rhetoric and the like.
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Originally Posted by viscousmemories
Some years back I bought a book called The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, by astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell. I haven't read it but supposedly it does an adequate job of explaining how to rebuild civilization in the event of an apocalypse. Now I'm actually thinking it might be a good read, so maybe I'll do it.
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I suspect refining and alloying quality metals for machinery, pipes, etc. will be quite a stumbling block. There are reasons industrial tech took a while to be bootstrapped into existence.