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Guest Post: What The African Jungle Taught Me About Economic Collapse
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man
Lessons From The Wild
For the last week or so, I’ve had the good fortune to be out in the jungles and savannah brush of southern Africa. If you look up “the middle of nowhere” in Google maps, you’ll probably find where I’ve been. In fact, when I took a small plane from Botswana’s Okavango Delta yesterday, we flew for 124 minutes before I saw so much as a paved road.
Here in the birthplace of life itself, you can learn a great deal about humankind by watching animals in the wild. Nature is full of lessons about from whence we came, and to where we are going.
This trip has provided unbelievable opportunity for me to reinforce many of these lessons, and I’d like to share a few with you.
First, and most importantly, is the indomitable rise of humankind. It goes without saying that we are the most advanced, adaptable species on the planet. Humans stood up millions of years ago to defy harsh elements and even harsher predators.
Our prehistoric ancestors learned to talk. To write. To heal. To cultivate. To build vast civilizations. Devoid of any natural defense mechanisms, offensive capabilities, or significant size, strength or speed, human beings conquered the world against all odds on sheer ingenuity.
Fast forward to modern day. We’ve managed to get ourselves into dangerous straits. The fortunes of nearly every man, woman, and child on the planet are inextricably tied to a bogus financial system that is crumbling before our very eyes.
Governments are reacting with policy tools and spending programs that only exacerbate the pain, putting billions of people’s livelihoods at risk. Add to that resource shortages, overpopulation, and waves of political instability, and I’d say the next several years will be quite difficult for our species.
Entire nations will go bankrupt. Others will simply cease to exist. Others will go to war. Others will descend into criminality and social chaos driven by lack of economic opportunity. And still others will regress into the worst kind of authoritarian regimes.
As difficult as the economic end game may seem, though, humanity has faced overwhelming odds before, and I have no doubt in our ability to adapt and overcome. This is more of a transition period… a major turning point in human history that will lead to a renewed system and brighter days ahead.
In the 14th century when the Black Death was vanquishing populations by the million across Europe, few people probably saw the Renaissance coming… but it happened. Humanity suffered a major blow, started again, and ultimately flourished.
This is another important lesson from nature: you’re either one of those who adapts, or you’re one of those who will perish. It’s that easy. Nature doesn’t play favorites, it simply separates those who are unprepared from the rest of the ecosystem.
The face of human civilization is transforming, and nobody knows what’s going to happen in the coming years with any certainty. All we can say for sure is that it’s not going to look anything like it does today.
Personally, I want to be prepared for anything, and that’s why I’m investing my time, money, and energy into our resilient community project in central Chile.
The idea behind the community is that it generates its own food, water, and energy, with enough capacity to supply the strong, thriving network of like-minded folks who live there… and then some.
This isn’t some survival bunker where we go off into the wilderness and bid adieu to the rest of the world. No, this is a community that’s specifically designed to meet the most basic needs of its residents. As such, no matter what happens, we’ll be able to deal with the world from a position of strength.
That’s how I’m preparing. What about you? I’d love to hear your thoughts about what you think is coming down the road, and what you’re doing about it.
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Tutus and Hutsus recently killed each other in much higher percentages using only machetes and their hands. They didn't even need armies, just a few radio broadcasts. The American Indians were constantly at war with the dominant tribe enslaving all the others and requiring them to supply huge numbers of human sacrifices. They built those pyrimids you admire so much to allow them to rip the greatest number of human hearts out in the least amount of time.
How many people did Genghis Khan kill - typically everyone in the city and then burn it, destroy the irrigation, etc and make it permanently unlivable. The Mongols planned to kill most of the Chinese to make room for larger horse herds. If they didn't get to 50 million it was only because there wasn't that many within their reach.
War isn't a western civ invention. We just kill more efficiently just as with most other things like growing food.
It is a patchwork of non sense.
It mixes everything and all.
What has the Rwandan mass slaughters have to do with the invention of war? They might have to do with the invention of the radio set though.
It mixes religious rituals with war. American Indians built pyramids? Of yes, visiting most of them in Canada.
Tribal warfare had a low body count. Funnily enough but not surprisingly, US citizens are bound to deny even the most obvious.
You know, usually, the observation of a diverse world is the practical evidence that an efficient destroyer of diversity has been missing somewhere.
So the large variety in indian tribes on northern continent is a pratical evidence that their mass slaughters were not that mass slaughters.
Reversely, the western world has shown its capacity at extremelly large destruction as examplified by the monolithic look of it.
Another think is like for example Romans killed more efficiently than celts but grew food less efficiently
Etc...
Wont spend more time to debunk US citizens whose main reason to be is to prevent self indiction while the obvious is: the US is not the solution, the US is the problem.
Who cares if things get better if you are one of the millions that died in the black death. I ain't got all day! Let's get this show on the road!
Please, the birthplace of humanity. Life was born about 3.7 billion years earlier, long before the continent of Africa even existed.
ROFL! Good luck with that!
Nice to see the Eugenics crowd out in full force tonight.
The eugenicists keep refusing to help me.
All I need to know is the IQ value below which I should not breed.
IQ of offspring deviates towards the mean of the general population so your kids will likely be smarter unless you work really hard at making them dumb or breed with someone mentally handicapped.
Excellent post! Can you send me you address so I know where to go when the USA blows up?
Excellent post! Can you send me your address so I know where to go when the USA blows up?
Smart fella. I visited the Okavago Delta twice in the late 80s. It is a magical place. I arrived at the Savuti Camp in Botswana and I was the only guest in the camp the first night there. The guides put me in tent number one. I found out later why. Tent number one was near the large bird bath which it turns out is visited nightly by the local lion pride. It was quite an experience laying in my tent listening to lions close in and then spend time running around my tent. I got up enough nerve to unzip the front of my tent and stick my camera outside. The flash revealed two lion cubs who were passing in front of my tent just as my camera flashed. I fell back into my tent and quickly zipped up my tent. One of a multitude of great experiences in my visit to Botswana and later Zimbabwe.
Mistah Kurtz, he dead.
You lost me here.
"Here in the birthplace of life itself"
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