21/11/2011

morning,

 

in town, and have access online..

 

Have been searching alot of things, from bushcraft skills, to archeology sites...

 

on the bushcraft skills, I see alot of mistakes,  and after having lived  some 20 plus years in the brush, the last 16 full time and no day job,

I was able to spot some things..

 

first on my mind, is people carrying things in manners they can be lost,  I see alot of that,  in a survival situation, expedient access to most items,

is not more important than trying not to lose them...  hachets slipped into the outsides of packs, that arent lashed securely are as good as lost after any time

traveling through brush...  nor would I leave a lanyard hanging out to pull an item out of a pocket with, unless that lanyard was tied to the pack etc...

 

I also see alot of price gouging, $400 rucksacks, and $300 small knives... my suggestion is make it yourself....

use the money saved for further upgrades in tools etc..

 

another thing I notice, is no one seems to be thinking about what if the survival situation is open ended?  having bushcraft tools is really just a start...

 

I wouldnt want to live without a full sized axe,  or full sized cooking gear, or a brace and bitt, and alot of other things, tools for agriculture etc.....

 

brushcraft is good to know, it is good to have a collection of fundamental and smaller tools,  but there comes a time one might like to do more than live under a lean-to shelter, and look for bugs...

 

And that next step is something I have been thinking about for years...  and is part of what got me thinking in neoindigenous terms..

 

so what do you do as a post collapse refugee? hang out in the lean-to, or start using ambient resources to improve your life one step at a time?

 

I notice the archeologists have missed some logic, they have our ansestors mixing daub for plastering housing in pits doing heavy labor...

 

meanwhile a few feet away in the animal yard, the cattle have been doing the same mix of clay,manure, straw, hair, etc., all year long...

 

what would you do? spend days mixing up special daub in large quantities, or just go mine the barnyard?

 

see how scientists are?

 

I have also been researching hillforts, and have learned alot... like that they were a predominant lifestyle for much of humanity for thousands of years, and that the ditches were up to 30 feet deep and straight sided, what we see today is muchly filled in...

 

what that means, is the defenses of the inhabitants were much better than we might imagine.. allowing for a life not requiring taxation to support a force of doughnut eaters in patrol cars...  basically our early ansestors could have done rotating watches,  and everyone could have slept safer than in an urban city in the technocult...

 

I suspect from what I have seen, that stone and iron age humans had a better life than modern man has in real terms, community instead of vanity...

 

I also watched some homeless community videos...  and heard people discussing the same things I have realized getting out of the techno cult... truth is universal...

 

now on towards my point;  when do camp improvements using ambient resources change into community or faamily farmsteads, and how do you get there?

 

well this is why I was searching the hillforts and archetecture of prehistoric times, to see if what I have thought about was correct...  that one would begin building with stone and clay mortar, poles and split rails, and some sort of thatch or split shingles... and one would build food storage granarys etc..

 

my point being, that if you are just thinking to bushcraft, and stopping there,  you are losing the opportunity to have a longer range plan.. and if your tools dont include pickhoes, wheelbarrows, axes, etc. you may have to rediscover how your stone age relatives did things minus the cheap and available now tools...

 

I see the past as a mine of skills and knowlege for the future and what is coming....

 

and in fact, given the time and opportunity I will head that direction,  just as I have been doing without really knowing it...

 

if I have some luck in economics, good chance I will turn it into decent housing etc.  but limit myself to neoindigenous,  ie build with stone etc., and also work towards simple fortification at every opportunity...

 

I also ran into a foto searching images; german hill forts, of one that had been used as a missile launching test site, and had been heavily bombed by the allies..

to little effect... while a fancy castle would have been rubbled...

 

so its the earthworks fortifications that could be just a starting point for one's landscaping,  could help protect you and yours even from serious destruction, not to mention raiders who are at the present time arrogant reality denyers....

 

so I make a suggestion; that you think about what I am saying, do some searching yourself, and at least get a concept of what it should look like, so you know how to get there...

 

personally, if I can, I will use modern machinery to do major amounts of excavation... and in the interim,  any dirt work I do will head the direction I now can envision very clearly....

 

its a fun hobby being a  prepper type,  and gives me an opportunity to be creative... not to mention live outside of the modern credit slavery paradigm...

 

and if I am wrong about the future, at least I have had fun, and if I am right, at least I will be well prepared and maybe even able to thrive and help others...

 

I also searched stone age agriculture videos and watched a few... and learned some things...

 

Anyway, what I seem to have personally, is a now rare level of experience living in the brush, and that most of the popular experts are either holding down day jobs, or are rich kid types doing things they get to go back to the upscale life from afterwards...

 

both of those groups have taught me things, but I think I could teach them alot also...

 

personally I would never consider a permanent day job,  or a ranch style house, or make myself a slave of my own materialistic desires....

 

nor join up with a woman who thought I should go there for her...

 

anyway, my point is, that people need to combine the bushcraft, stone age landscaping and construction, agriculture, and homelessness into a unified concept, and not hang out in one form of Babylon or another until too late...

 

G! 

 

16/11/11

morning,

 

staying in town at the moment, for a few days, playing stand in father..

 

for a bunch of girls who havnt had a good example of male influence..

making progress, but its slow and difficult..  but I do know how to get results...

 

anyway, have been learning the ropes some on line,  watching you tube videos in my areas of interests, and learning what the norm is on planet..

 

I see that there are alot of people getting into minimalistic camping, called "bushcraft",  and its got a community going, thats international in scope and non racial etc.

People are learning skills.. making their own gear, and doing it with one of the desired criteria being low cost...

 

and then going out into the woods and mountains to learn and practice there...

 

after which they report on line to others...  this is really important and good..  even city people are involved, and working on gear and projects in their appartments,  and then finding their local wild

areas for the putting in practice part...   sure alot better than watching TV 24 hours a day, and thinking life is being rich enough to dance all the time...

 

truth is, primitive cultures have more and better liesure time...

 

I have been showing the girls and their mother things online, and getting them to grasp that its fun to camp out, work in the garden, and make things that are pretty and useful with their own hands...

 

My girlfriend got really excited watching some of the bushcraft videos, gardening stuff etc...

 

freedom is in the hills and deserts and wild places...

 

and she instantly realized that I was way ahead of the curve, and she wants to start doing videos for you tube of the stuff I do, and the skills and  concepts I have to teach...

 

So I am using the internet as a resource to aid in reprogramming a small tribe of females,  and getting them out into the brush, in a culture where women never camp...

 

Part of why it works well, is they see its fun and not something abnormal.. that the rest of the world does it...

 

these last few days, have been teaching them how to do yeast breads in the casa..  and that they can have ten times more bread for the same money, as buying it in the corner store.. and also that is twice the nutrition of rice...

 

got one daughter making a batch of bread alone today, they went thru five pounds yesterday...  she's jazzed, because she got to take bread to school last night, that she made herself..

 

it created a bit of a stir..

 

as home bread making is a lost art in this culture of tortillas...   people buy all their breads, and think you have to go to school or something to be able to bake....

 

So it was quite the shock for all the teachers and students to try home made yeast breads...  also the boughten breads here tend to be dry and tasteless, and mostly air.. 

 

so fresh yeast bread got their attention...

 

anyway, shes doing fine on her bread alone today...  likely be baking this afternoon, and have hot bread for mom when she comes home from work...

 

and the girls do love the bread...  its not an everyday thing, in a house with 5 females living off one third world income....

also I have an objective,  that when I take them into the brush, that they already have a repretoir of skills...  my guess is theyll burn some bread learning to cook over wood fires...

 

I also will start doing some projects in front of them, making outdoor gear etc. here in town...  they will like that.. seeing me turn available resources into pretty things with serious utility value..

 

I am also thinking of projects that I can do videos of, I see some things that are missing in the bushcraft video world....

 

and I really want to do my best to assist the city people types to learn and do...

 

this is important in whats coming...   and when the shit hits, they will set off with their packs, whistling a tune, happy they dont have to be slaves anymore...

 

anyway, the best info is searched at the word bushcraft...  and there one can learn that you dont need or want snob camping gear..

 

so anyway, Im feeling good, see some hope for more people...

 

its like I told an indigenous friend in front of a bunch of latins, that when the shit hit,  from then on, we were all going to be indigenous....

it got some shocked looks from the Ticos, as they think indigenous people are second class humans and treat them accordingly....

 

so, it will make my job alot easier to rewild some girls...  the videos are breaking down their culturally induced resistances...

 

anyway, if you want to survive, and or are tired of playing your unpleasant part in the white slavery reality..  work on your gear and skills,  and go try them out... start small, a couple days in the brush, play with your hobby,  and get really good, so when the collapse comes, you can help others....

 

have a good day, and look forward to becoming a better human..

 

G!