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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aeden » Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:16 pm

The sprint to mud huts is increasing as the ferals are going rampant as the city fool's finger point while it locks up in real time
and logistics seize up from the shock. Capital is locking down zones to survive the mindless fools who simply decimated zones.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:11 pm

Once central authority does collapse, an area may lapse into chaos
and warlordism for a time, disrupting both licit and illicit trade. Even-
tually new forms of governance begin to emerge.
The Five Stages of Collapse by Dmitry Orlov, p. 175

Not sure what "for a time" means or how long "eventually" takes. What I've envisioned in the case of the US is that Defund the Police and lack of support for police could result in many former police starting private security firms. That has the result of moving police protection from everyone to those who can afford it. If someone lives in an area where there are enough people who can afford private security protection, it may be possible for them to band together and proactively keep the would be warlords out. In a world with no money "afford" would mean something different than it does today. It might mean giving 1/4 to 1/3 of the production from your land to whoever is providing the protection.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:28 am

FullMoon wrote:
Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:17 am
As a gardener, I learned the value of animal husbandry. Vegetables have a hard time sustaining a family, learn trapping/hunting or keeping your own. Quickly.
We've been relying on a guy who hunts deer and wild hogs. About a week ago, he dropped by. I'll get back to that.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:19 am
Anyway, about the time I got everything cleared out of the garage, my wife called and said she found someone who is combining households (second marriage) and wanted all her furniture moved out right away so she could sell her house. She gave a lot of it away. So the garage is full again.
So I had gone through this garage full of furniture and one of the items was a bar table with 4 bar stools. The table was made in Vietnam and just needed a few missing bolts replaced that had fallen out. One of the chairs just needed the bolts tightened.

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The table and the 4 bar stools were set up in the house when he came. He sat down and said he wanted the table. I told him my wife wasn't selling it. She was at work and he didn't know it, but she was listening on the ring system. A few minutes later he told me his wife wanted the table and I repeated what I had told him. Then at some point he opened up a closet and commented about the closet going under the stairs. I think he was looking to see if the closet was capable of having food storage. It is and it does, but he couldn't see it.

I told my wife he's not coming back. She had no problem with that because she heard and saw all that besides a bunch of bullshit I didn't mention.

Things are getting more squirrely as the new dark age tightens its grip. Those who have meat may what to know what you've got to trade for it besides funny money. Just one data point.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:12 am

tim wrote:
Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:52 am
It takes years for people who have never lived outside of their small town life to trust a stranger and even then you will always be an outsider.
My mother told me 2 generations in her town of 1,000 people in rural Nebraska. In other words, the first generation stranger will never be accepted. Their children who are born in the town will be.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Sun Feb 05, 2023 6:39 am
My mother grew up in a small town in one of the red counties of the upper midwest. edit: Actually, her county is orange. When I was a boy, she told me it takes 2 generations for a newcomer to town to be fully accepted by the people in the town. For anyone making a move to one of these areas, you would be advised to, first of all, understand the culture and, second, to expect that your family will be giving more than you take for a very long time. It's been my experience that some people will spread rumors, and some of those will not be very flattering. It is what it is.
For those whose parents left the town and were born elsewhere like me, based on examples that I have seen, if they return they are expected to do something to improve the town. When I was in the town some years ago, I was told to go down to the library to meet a guy who returned after retiring. He was helping build an addition onto the library. That got written up in the local paper with his photo.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by tim » Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:55 am

spottybrowncow wrote:
Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:22 am
tim wrote:
Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:56 am
I believe the Chinese are going to take Hawaii and land on the West Coast of North America. Maybe in Canada and Mexico.
Tim I have trouble conceiving of this happening without all the nuclear bombs (everyone's) being used. While being invaded might not be "business as usual" in Eurasia, it's happened quite a bit over the years. Modern America, not so much. I think we would be more than willing to blow up the world if it came to that. Doesn't that change things?
America is around 250 years old. That isn't a long enough time span to say America can't be invaded by a foreign power.

The southern border has been wide open for years and there are probably hundreds of thousands of Chinese agents already here. It wouldn't be that hard for them to take out infrastructure and cause chaos.

Look at the problems that happen from a mass shooting from a lone gunman. Imagine what trained Chinese soldiers could do with modern military equipment.

https://jrnyquist.blog/2024/04/19/strat ... immy-alex/
JRN: Many analysts here in the West are concerned about Chinese young men of military age crossing the U.S. border illegally. Is the CCP placing special forces in the U.S. secretly? Are they doing this in preparation for a future war, or is it merely in preparation for sabotage operations?

LUDE: I have talked about this since January 2023. The CCP is trying to infiltrate 250,000 military personnel into the United States. They want these people in place when the war begins – to attack water systems and military bases.

JRN: How many of these 250,000 military personnel sent to the United States as infiltrators are expected to remain loyal to the CC? If they are left here too long, won’t they be corrupted by the American way of life?

LUDE: If you betray China, you get serious punishment. First, they control who gets out of China and who goes to America. They have hostages back in China. If they smell any betrayal, you can suffer the effects of Party discipline. So, under such a strict system, it is very hard to break free. The entire operation to infiltrate America with troops is carefully organized. It is organized around a kind of Ho Chi Minh Trail for China, as in the Vietnam War. This Ho Chi Minh Trail runs through Mexico to the U.S. border.

JRN: Don’t the Chinese strategists worry about Chinese defectors from the 250,000 going over to the Americans and exposing the entire plan? What makes them so confident and bold as to try something so dangerous?

LUDE: First, 250,000 is a large number. Think of various cities in the United States. They have batch after batch of troops infiltrating America’s southern border. These troops will not show themselves openly in the USA. So, the Americans will not notice. Their mission is to force the U.S. to lose control over its own society. As long as government control is broken, the dollar system will be crushed. The key thing is to create chaos on U.S. soil. Unless you defeat the dollar system, which backs up the American military, you have no chance.
When the war starts I expect the Chinese military to quickly overwhelm our defenses similar to how France fell to Germany during WWII. France was gearing up to re fight WWI and the French military was led by old men who didn't see the merits in new technology. At the time, the French military was considered the strongest in the world.

There are some similarities to France before WWII and America. Check out The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 by William L. Shirer.

The Chinese have planned to use nukes and will use them. They have openly stated this multiple times. Why do people not believe them when they say what their plans are? I don't know. Why didn't people believe Hitler when he said what his plans were when he wrote Mein Kampf?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/ ... athanwatts
Speaking at a lecture arranged by the foreign ministry and attended by several foreign correspondents on Thursday, Mr Zhu said China was prepared to initiate non-conventional warfare over Taiwan. "War logic dictates that a weaker power needs to use maximum efforts to defeat a stronger rival," he was reported as saying by the New York Times.

"If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons."

Echoing threats last made in 1995, Mr Zhu, who has a reputation as a hawk in Chinese military circles, said his country was ready to sustain heavy casualties in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other heavily populated areas.

"We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian," he said. "Of course, the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese."

Although Mr Zhu said war was unlikely, his proposal that China should adopt a first-strike nuclear option against the US will alarm the Pentagon.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by spottybrowncow » Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:22 am

tim wrote:
Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:56 am
I believe the Chinese are going to take Hawaii and land on the West Coast of North America. Maybe in Canada and Mexico.
Tim I have trouble conceiving of this happening without all the nuclear bombs (everyone's) being used. While being invaded might not be "business as usual" in Eurasia, it's happened quite a bit over the years. Modern America, not so much. I think we would be more than willing to blow up the world if it came to that. Doesn't that change things?

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by tim » Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:56 am

Guest wrote:
Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:56 pm
Higgenbotham wrote:
Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:17 pm
https://archive.org/details/strategic-r ... s/mode/2up

This is a pdf of the whole book.
It's interesting that Hawaii gets zero stars when that is where all of the tech bros and Oprah have set up shop to ride out the storm.
I believe the Chinese are going to take Hawaii and land on the West Coast of North America. Maybe in Canada and Mexico. Unless you live on top of a mountain in the Pacific Northwest I don't think that is the place to be.

I wouldn't want the flat lands of the Midwest. Too easy for tanks.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by tim » Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:52 am

Higgenbotham wrote:
Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:31 pm
In my opinion, the most important consideration about fleeing an area while anticipating the appearance of roaming warbands is to be sure you're slightly ahead of the point at which the warbands have control of roads. A plan can easily be mapped out ahead of time where you avoid interstates, know how much gasoline needs to be packed in the vehicle, how much time it will take to get to the destination, and all that. But if, for example, you're on what you thought was a safe road out in the middle of nowhere and you see a roadblock in the distance, then a big sign that says "Get Out or Die" you're pretty well screwed. In an era of declining access to fuel, you know what they're going to be looking for and at a minimum they will take all the extra fuel in your vehicle and siphon everything out of your gas tank.
In order to flee an area successfully you're going to have to be well ahead of the curve.

Wherever you flee to, unless you are already established and known in the area the locals aren't going to just let you have freedom of travel.

Well traveled roads will also be a place to ambush travelers for supplies and vehicles. By the time war bands are a fact of life traveling long distance will be dangerous.

The time to relocate is now for these reasons and also after the event happens if you haven't spent enough time in a small town or remote area the locals who have lived there their entire lives won't trust you. It takes years for people who have never lived outside of their small town life to trust a stranger and even then you will always be an outsider.

Survival is going to take local communities coming together. The more time you have to establish yourself in your area the better off you will be.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Guest » Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:20 am

Higgenbotham wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:45 pm
spottybrowncow wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:20 pm
Higgie,

That's a beautiful plan, but what do you plan to do when others come by (worst case scenario, I think Greer calls them 'warbands") and help themselves to the fruits of your labor?
It's worst case, but it will probably happen; it's just a matter of when and how. In that case, this place will be abandoned and my plan is to take my family to northeast Nebraska where my ancestors settled in the 1860s. Having warbands roaming the countryside will probably go hand in hand with diesel supplies running low or running out. There are a few farms in the area of 4,000 acres there that I'm aware of that will need manpower and fortification once diesel supplies run low and will have the ability to better resist roaming warbands or become the law themselves.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/17/poli ... index.html

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by FullMoon » Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:17 am

Higgenbotham wrote:
Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:31 pm
In my opinion, the most important consideration about fleeing an area while anticipating the appearance of roaming warbands is to be sure you're slightly ahead of the point at which the warbands have control of roads. A plan can easily be mapped out ahead of time where you avoid interstates, know how much gasoline needs to be packed in the vehicle, how much time it will take to get to the destination, and all that. But if, for example, you're on what you thought was a safe road out in the middle of nowhere and you see a roadblock in the distance, then a big sign that says "Get Out or Die" you're pretty well screwed. In an era of declining access to fuel, you know what they're going to be looking for and at a minimum they will take all the extra fuel in your vehicle and siphon everything out of your gas tank.
THIS is why I have already made the move. I don't think it was the best place I could have chosen BUT it was the best got with all the stuff that came along with moving. It seems that getting out is rather shockingly getting more obviously needed. Trying to figure out an escort plan is good but then what.... Then you'll be lees than where you could've been had you actually moved before it wasn't absolutely necessary.
As a gardener, I learned the value of animal husbandry. Vegetables have a hard time sustaining a family, learn trapping/hunting or keeping your own. Quickly.

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