Repression an example

[GaRp58]

All my storage space and resources will be dedicated to purchasing and storing items that will help me make it to the last phase.

Almost like I said, if I got any extra cash, it is gonna be invested in sumthin'. Just gotta out live and out survive the most...

While we can't depend on trade with others, neither can we depend on going completely solo.

Yes Kate, we can only copy what we are already doing today. How many of us are producing their own gas, ammo, clothes or vehicles?
Trade today is called shopping, I take your gas, ammo and clothes and trade pieces of paper for it. You take my potatoes and carrots and give me my paper back...
Later the same happens again, just someone will be standing in the shadows with a gun, overwatching the "shopping spree". Maybe the warlord, maybe my wife...GP

 

[lonewolf]

modern civilisation is too dependant on others for its continuation, we have built a house of cards which could collapse at any time, food supplies are a long chain of interconnecting parts which could fall apart if only one small piece of the chain has a problem.
globilisation has a lot to answer for, when thinking locally would be more sensible.
yet most people seem to want to rebuild the same sort of system post SHTF that probably caused the collapse in the first place, which really dosent make any sense to me.
people need to think about self sufficiency and self reliance and NOT relying on someone else all the time, but of course nothing will ever be done, we will carry on as nations in the same old way until SHTF actually happens but then will be to late to do anything about it.
relying on others post SHTF isn't going to work as these others that people rely on might not survive, and any form of community thinking is a long way down the line in, as has been said by others, in the rebuilding phase which thankfully I wont be around to see.