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So I was reading a story about a guy who was around in the revolutionary War when basically society was breaking down you had to be nimble you had to have a skill that served your captors well while you were prisoner of war or were captured and being transported etc and then it had to be a skill that was useful if you were not captured or you were released after being captured. And the skills that came to my notice were the ability to melt metals and turn them into other things such as buttons. The ability to make lime and coke and potash. Find out what those are if you don't know. The ability to make beer. If you can make beer then people will always find you useful. If they're trying to choose between 10 prisoners to shoot they're probably not going to shoot the one who knows how to make their beer. These very basic rudimentary skills will make you valuable to the future if it all goes to hell. If you think going out and buying your own land and buying a bunch of bullets is your best defense I would disagree. I think your best defense is to be very useful to the people around you and to be useful to people around you you've got to be able to make and do things that are helpful to whoever is left. People forget that during the revolutionary War it was very difficult to know who who we're going to be the victors in the future. And so you had to have skills that were useful to whoever was in control of you at that moment.

Now you know if there are some more advanced things that are available then doing some programming of fundamental sort of computers like raspberry pies and other things that are going to be adapted to use for all sorts of things would be a skill. And that's basically learning how to flash them and program in python.

Knowing how to purify water and make water cisterns and other things probably are useful too but once you teach them that unlike beer you're not going to have any individual skill that somebody else doesn't know whereas beer making is very much contingent on the person making it and not just the general knowledge of how to do it. So you're going to have people who argue to keep you alive because you make better beer than another guy. Or if you know how to make a water system once you teach everybody how to make them they'll just shoot you and make their own.

Anyways just a really interesting story about someone who was captured during the revolutionary War by Indians and by the British and how he survived among all his captors by being useful when many other people were being killed around him.

Remember if there ever was a survivalist situation that period of time where it's pure independent survival is going to be a short period of time. It might be a couple of months but very quickly there are going to be organized groups of people who have banded together and they're going to start sweeping the areas to find who's around who's got what who's cooperative who's going to be an enemy that they need to take out. So buying all the ammunition in the world and sitting there thinking you're going to be in your bunker for 5 years alone is not going to be the way it really happens for very long. You might survive a nuclear strike that way and you might survive you know all hands on deck total revolution for a few months that way but very quickly in most parts of the country people are going to start self organizing and you're going to be existing among other people.