Survival Acres Signing Off
October 16th, 2007“Collapse will not be televised, you will not know that it has happened. You will only know that it has happened to you.”
—Dmitry Orlov
Survival Acres provided the most concentrated doom news of just about any site out there that I was aware of. A one stop shop for your all-scarcity-all-the-time needs.
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Hi Kevin,
I’m not “gone”, not just yet, not until they kill me 🙂 Just taking the needed time to take care of my family. The blog will remain up, and the food site remains open. I need to take care of my family first, it’s “time”.
Survival Acres,
I’ve tried before to respond to your blog. Sorry I didn’t get through. I am a techno dummy. I’v read your blog many times in this last year and when by directed to your articles posted by Carolyn Baker and was referred to you by Cryptogon.
I have gained much from what you have written.
No pun intended, by I too am trying “to put food on my family.” From what I’ve read from you, I think you know very well how to take care of your family in the best sense of the word -“care.”
I hope they don’t kill ya, or eat you, or drive you insane with nincompoop nonsense.
The Gods and Goddesses, I believe, love people like yourself. They will bless you, keep you from harm, and protect you in your ways.
May the wind be always be at your back, and the sun shine on your face.
Forget 2025, we’ll never make it that far before total collapse sets in.
The Club of Rome predicted industrial society would be gone by 2031, so no argument here. As for me, my social anchor in this life is a Baby Boomer older brother who could never, ever comprehend any of this stuff until it would be far too late. So I’m hoping the Divine Spirit takes pity on me and has a Olympian thunderbolt with my name on it ready to go well before 2018, when I turn 51. I’ll turn 41 next year and I can already feel my muscles, knees, and spine getting a bit creaky.
loveandlight–
I’m 59. Through another blog, I got started emailing a microbiologist at a famous university. In desperation, I described to her my own symptoms of “creakiness”–which I had always believed to be calcium deficiency.
She told me that I was really suffering from magnesium deficiency. Imagine my surprise when I research magnesium deficiency symptoms and realized that the symptoms of sever deficiency went back to my earliest childhood: The high-strung, nervous temperament; muscle cramps; childhood asthma; too-rapid eye-blinking; etc.
Almost all the nutrition books will tell you that most of these symptoms are due to calcium deficiency. The microbiologist advised against taking supplements–but I took supplements cautiously, anyway, just to get up to speed. Now I’m trying to get my magnesium from whole grains and pumpkin seeds (a great source).
I’m doing WAY better in the creakiness department–and trying (not always successfully) to eat only whole grains, nuts, seeds, and vegetables.
Okay–maybe you weren’t really complaining about your health or energy level. I just couldn’t resist sharing!
Other critical micro-nutrients: copper and manganese. Oysters are a good source of copper. Also green olives. (I haven’t looked into manganese yet.)
I’m beginning to believe I can turn back the clock!
BTW, this LiveJournal community is a good place to get your daily “doom” fix. It might even be enough to inspire you to get an LJ account!
Thanks, Sharon. I’ve actually been feeling a bit better since I started taking a daily tablespoon of organic coconut oil along with a multivitamin that includes all the things you mentioned.
This is my first post in response to anything at Cryptogon. While I find the theories expressed here facinating and the concept of self reliance admirable, I am in denial about the reality of total colapse. I find myself wondering if there is some sort of psychological addiction to colapse theory as a justification for rebeliousness and escapism. What is the point of succuming to this fear about colapse and using it to justify leaving the social network. Wouldn’t it be just as reasonable to try to start an urban garden? What have we got to lose by hanging in there and building things out of the pieces left behind by the colapse? Don’t we have enough human resources / energy to band together and create something out of the decayed parts. I wonder if this is just another form of anti social behaivior and isolationist idiology. ” I am smarter than them because I can see the collapse comming, and they aren’t worth trying to save because they don’t want to buy into my colapse theory fear and anxiety”? Clearly, I am hooked by the fear of colapse, myself, and it is possible that my concerns as expressed here are a form of denial. However, the world of possibility also suggests that colapse theory, could be a self fullfilling justification for non-participation. A way for those who feel the fear to have an excuse to just cop out, to leave the rest of us behind. Isn’t that attitude another form of fascisism, of opperating under a set of assumptions that label part of society as undeserving and incapable of banding together when things get tough. I look at the country when I fly across it and I see vast areas of uninhabited land, snow capped mountains etc, so it is hard for me to imagine that there wont be anything to work with if our society and politics come apart. There is just too much damn open space in America for the uniformed goons to pen us all in, unless we all act fearful and try to run and hide….What if we stayed and shared our pot of soup with each other around the fire..? Does it have to be about isolation and survivalism…? Can it be about reforming new social cloth out of old worn threads …?
Doom fix…? is that better than a Faith fix..? or are they both addicitons..?
Sharon,
Magnesium is horribly depleted in our soils due to modern agricultural practices. I’ve taken a Zinc/Magnesium/B-6 supplement called “ZMA” for about 10 years now.
Zinc and Mg are even more depleted in people who are active. I use six capuslues before retiring each night.
I also use a tablespoon of coconut oil with lunch most every day and a tablespoon of fish oil with breakfast.
@Amandla
right now, i believe we live under a pseudo/neo-fascist regime. by that i mean, we suffer corporate/government collusion, false flag attacks, widespread political corruption and extensive illegal surveillance. now try to convince anyone of any of that. they’ll either dismiss it, deny it or disagree with it.
that attitude won’t change post “collapse.” everyone who happens to agree with what i said in the paragraph above will still be totally alone their opinion. there will be nothing to “build,” and the “new social cloth” will be one of fear and welcomed state control.
it won’t be understood that a collapse has occurred, and it won’t be reported as one! that’s the point of the quote from dmitry orlov (unless i misunderstand it).
it’s a system. either get out now, or be prepared to live in a shithole full of people much, much more fearful and ignorant than they are now.
Amandla,
I don’t think there is anyone I’ve read who posts to this site who isn’t still trying to wrap themselves around and through the concept of total collapse. To grasp collapse and what it would mean to me personally, let alone including those I love, the communities, the counties, the world, is well, for me, a project in motion that involves much more of me than just stocking supplies. I find myself in a perpetual state of sadness and mourning.
Collapse of any kind: be it the dollar; peak oil; peak religion; peak water, soil, species – on and on ad naseum are very frightening concepts to absorb past the shell that encloses our individual beings.
That all peaks in the above areas seem to be reaching a crescendo at the same time boggles not only my mind, but my entire spirit.
Yes, I have a dream that I will provide food to lots of hungry people. I want to buy a gigantic solar oven that will feed a village.
I think that in my lifetime, you and I will see lots of soup kitchens – in fact, there has been one for several years in my community, but this isn’t something that makes the headlines.
I’m not one for religion – but in the years to come I think many of us are going to get some, and it will be built from within.
(here preacher Eileen takes the podium) I believe that to live in this world to come you will need to provide for yourself: food, water, heat and cooling (most likely heavy duty – next year is going to be hotter than last), and a big brave spirit. I think the last one, the big brave spirit is the hardest to do – and is what I work on the most these days. Maintaining a positive preparation oriented spirit when so many around me seem to be making a conscious choice to deny what is happening in the world around them is fucking tough.
That you read Cryptogon is a good start.
If you’re aiming to increase your magnesium input by eating whole grains, be sure to soak them overnight before eating them. This removes most of the phytic acid, something that can actually induce mineral deficiencies. See http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/be_kind.html for more information.