Mental Preparation

I remember in the movie Matrix where Neo is being told how his mind has been programmed. I know that most everyone can relate to that moment, because we can all feel that we are locked into time constraints and dated manipulations, made so by the structures of life that have been built over thousands of years. They are reinforced everyday merely by the name of the day and month, or number of year.

There’s Monday. Oh no, it’s the dreaded Monday again! The start of another work week. I have to go back and serve my sentence so that I can make money to pay for my freedom in convenience, food, water, and shelter. How will I make it through the day?! Not all of us, but most of us work the Monday through Friday work week. Some of us work everyday to build something and to make ends meet. The point, is that most people are already thinking of Friday, on Monday, or Monday on Sunday.

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We now use technology for almost everything. This puts us at a high level of convenience unmatched anywhere in the still existing written history. We can see anything we want, anywhere, at any time, without moving much, instantly. We can go anywhere in the world in one day. We have computers and robots do almost everything, even grow food and process farm animals, except for the most delicate of needs in interaction.

Technology and robots take a huge number of manual jobs away and they rely on a fragile electrical grid system. Also, there are not enough technology jobs being created to make up for the loss of manual jobs. People that need manual jobs are more aggressive than people that desire technological jobs, too. Do you see that hungry, unemployed, aggressive people will get violent and cause damage?

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Here’s is another subject and area of prepping that is touchy to say the least. I was raised to respect my elders and learn from them, and I have. Not at first, since as a younger man I didn’t want anyone else’s experience to ruin the mysteries of life and my adventure along the way. I did learn also that with age, does not always come wisdom. Some elderly are just as childish and irresponsible as when they were in their teens, but not a majority.

Eventually enough hitting my head against the walls of life changed my thinking and perspective on this, and at some point I began to listen to those that came before me. Not just those living in the world today, but those that came before me as far back as I could find recorded history, learning form their actions, words, and beliefs. I stopped talking as much and started listening and asking myself and others questions.

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