betrayal and deceit

BETRAYAL AND DECEIT


Before we start on our regularly scheduled article, two blathering points for your enlightenment. First, for those that failed to, once again despite my best efforts at badgering and belittling, read the comments section, regarding the article on semi-autos. I stand corrected and chastised that it totally skipped my mind to include the Saiga brand AK action full powered round rifles. Which I believe are cheaper than the AR’s. I’m not rescinding my article results, just throwing another contender into the mix. I still feel sacrificing power for accuracy has a lot to recommend to it, being as a half assed hit is better than a mighty and righteous miss ( as if I’m one to talk with my “pie-plate” accuracy Enfields ), but once again this is a “your mileage may vary” type of thing. Okay, second point. Just a thought on bugging out. A lot of things against the practice. Which I bring up once again in light of the Super Size tornado in Alabama. You need to be sheltered in place for your location. My travel trailer gently rocks during an earthquake. A first story cement filled cinder block wall is great for hurricanes. If I had to worry about flooding I’d own a boat, even if I couldn’t afford an engine for it. And for the love of Pete, if you live in a tornado region, have a root cellar or whatever. In the near future, bugging out runs into several problems. Martial law and the need of permits. Gasoline shortage or insane price. Highway robbers. The coming drought in imported Japanese auto/motorcycle replacement parts might render your vehicle non-operational. And even no vehicle at all as more and more of us become unemployed and your pimpin ride is repo’ed.

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We’ve talked about deceit and betrayal from your main squeeze. During the best of times, your wife will leave you in a heartbeat. You can make a point of certain cultures yet to give in to the ease of divorce ( I’m not throwing rocks in my glass house. I’m one of the worst at divorce having practiced it three or four times depending if this one sticks or not ), or how you are a lucky bastard and yours has stuck with you through thick and thin. But the majority of folks see divorce as nothing unusual. If you have kids, the wife holds all the cards. Power politics are always ugly, and I hang my head in shame at being such a dumbass that I let emotion cloud that cold reality. If the bitch CAN leave you, and make a profit at it, most likely she will. Crap, I’m supporting TWO ex-wives right now and am celibate. When wishing for a harem, I didn’t think it would be a non-functional one. Anyway, seeing the evidence of nasty divorces and financial servitude on the part of the male, it is easy to conclude that come the collapse, your wife will more than likely hook up with the neighborhood “bad boy”, rat your supply location out, set you up for murder and the stewpot and not lose wink of sleep over it. You had a great job, bought her treasures and a lifetime of security, but you are soft and weak. The natural predator will attract her, setting her loins afire come the collapse. This is just human nature. You can’t fight human nature. Culture will tame those tendencies quite well in good times, but in bad times human nature wins out. Okay, you all know my thoughts on the AVERAGE American female. You might be different, but most of them I despise. But let’s explore the other side of the coin. Betrayal and deceit by husbands and family members, best friends and tribesmen.

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If you are a crappy wife especially, but even if you are true and giving, your man can still very well look into trading you in for a better model after the collapse. He can justify it any number of different ways. You are a cold fish. You don’t put out enough even if you can be passionate. You fought him tooth and nail about prepping so he feels no remorse about not sharing them. You are old and worthless and there are nice looking young ones out there. Since the odds of #4 ever reading this are remote, I’ll admit it myself. I’m not throwing the bitch out now, even if we don’t have a relationship. I’m a beautiful person and can’t kick her out with no where to go. But, honestly, would I share my food stash with her? Why? If there is no relationship, how much do I owe here? I can’t have every ex-wife lining up with a paw out. I might be rude and harsh, but facts is facts. You can only feed so many people with limited resources ( note to lucky future wife #5- I do stay loyal as long as there is a relationship- I stayed with #4 six or seven years AFTER it was all over but the crying ). But even worse, betrayal wise, will be family. Seeing as how greedy family is over your cooling corpse, fighting over the will ( my ex-sister in law screwed everyone in the family over the inheritance, didn’t even pay off the mortgage to provide a roof over the heads of her four kids, but pissed it all away gambling ), do you think they will behave better when eating to survive is at stake? You are so cute that you think they will be grateful. Family is even worse than strangers, because they feel entitled. Ex #2, in her thirties, a pilot ( trained on my dime- but I’m not bitter ), with almost half of my gross going to child support, and she still felt her mother should bail her out every time it was needed. Even if mom had her own problems and was in poor health. And if you are wondering, yes, I have a lot of dysfunctional relationships.

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If you have family, and they know of your preps, you can be sure they will resort to violence if you don’t take them in. My step-daughter, even in her late twenties, three kids, has absolutely no sense of responsibility and no compunction about using others. I love her like a daughter, but if she showed up after the collapse I would shoot her before I let her near the place. I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night with her there. Got a best friend that wants to help after the collapse? I got your back, bro. Sure he does- if you provide his supplies. Look, I’m not saying everyone will stab you in the back. Some folks will resist temptation. The question is for how long. Only your immediate family, biological, blood related, can be trusted. Everyone else will, it’s only a question of time, justify eliminating you for your supplies ( or even for other reasons such as a scapegoat or as cannon fodder ). No one, certainly not myself, is going to die if there is a way to stay alive. That is not how we are programmed. It is just human nature. Don’t deny it, don’t fight it, but be very aware of it.

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