Doomsday Has Its Day in the Sun
"...the National Geographic Channel introduced “Doomsday Preppers,” a reality series about people who are stockpiling, arming and otherwise preparing for some kind of apocalypse. Last week it was the Discovery Channel’s turn. Its new “Doomsday Bunkers,” on Wednesday nights, is about Deep Earth Bunker, a company that builds underground getaways for the types of people seen in “Doomsday Preppers.”
Watch either show for a short while and, unless you’re a prepper yourself, you might be moderately amused at the absurd excess on display and at what an easy target the prepper worldview is for ridicule. Watch a bit longer, though, and amusement may give way to annoyance at how offensively anti-life these shows are, full of contempt for humankind. . . . .
But then what is the attraction of continuing to live in a world that forces people to cower in an underground box and spend all their time fending off those who want their freeze-dried apricots?
Even more seriously, what is the attraction of continuing to live in a world that will almost certainly not have television or the Internet, depriving doomsday types of the shows and Web sites that fuel their paranoia and sell products exploiting it?
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I agree on "what's the point of cowering..".
However I think that disaster preparedness is a good mindset.
How wants to be a clueless sheep if disaster strikes?
I want to be prepared, but not overdo it...
Posted by: Urban Survival | March 27, 2013 at 07:56 PM