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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RareBreed" data-source="post: 8921855" data-attributes="member: 6945590">Which is why it's very important to build a community as soon as possible.  This implies that leadership, communication, and charisma are vital (if you're going to be a leader), or the smarts to realize when you're being milked.  Or, the strength to escape if the local strongarms are trying to muscle in and create a neo-feudal serfdom.Farming alone is a full time endeavor.  Defending that is another full time job (I don't just mean some kind of garrison, but also active scouting and reconnaissance to be forewarned of trouble).  Then tack on all those other specializations, including medical, midwifing (is that a word?), tanning, etc etc.I used to watch a Youtube channel that starred a Chinese lady (liziqi IIRC) and was always amazed at the stuff she did.  Granted, a lot of that was crafted just for the video, but I yearned for a kind of life like that.  I know that a "simple and idyllic" life is much harder than those kind of artificially posed youtube clips, but I still think there's great value to it. I feel like technology has regressed us in many fundamental ways. The great irony is that I'm a software engineer.  If the SHTF, I'm screwed.  My survival skills are next to nothing, other than a better than average health care knowledge (I am not first responder level, but both my parents were nurses, and I used to be CPR and First Aid certified by Red Cross).  I can also fire weapons (including .308 semi-automatics like AR-10 clones) and at very rudimentary level maintain them.  I'm no green thumb, but I can garden...but only with modern niceties like artificial fertilizer with NPK, mulching, etc.</blockquote>

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