– this guy ( t jolly user ) knows what he’s talking about. .

Pretty rough, but exceptional leaders can ameliorate even the most dedicated anarchists. Look around you and then tell me that nobody can organize anything successfully. Groups build cohesion through shared purpose. The “every man for himself” individualists likely won’t survive the first round of die-offs.

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Did you find your people?

Yes ! Wholeheartedly agree. My weakness has been overprotective and to not trust and thinking that I can do everything. But how in the heck do you trust other people? My deal is not a fad and a lot of others now days do this prepping stuff as a fad too. I am at the border to Mexico and in search of like minded people.

In nature, it’s called cooperative competition. Just like tribes and villages in the past that they have word on each other, eventual, trade, and cooperation. In certain circumstances is the key to survival and thriving. Ruthless independence with the development of trust over time, but understanding that low expectations are best. Alliances are fleeting, and blood will always be thicker than water. Meaning people will protect family and support family regardless of their associations with outsiders. That’s why intermarriage was so important to kingdoms and feudalism. I have worked with developing agricultural systems in farm communities across the world. One of my many messages is that everybody needs to contribute and everybody else needs to help other people understand their responsibility to the community, but also there mutual interest in everybody’s needs being met. Most of these were subsistence, farmers and communities, where everyone was independent in creating their own resources and feeding themselves, but the common interest was in education and cooperation, and understanding what that meant. Competition for resources is the biggest cause for strife and suffering. Ignorance combined with arrogance also can set up people for failure.

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