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There is a peculiar arrogance embedded in modern American life — the assumption that the lights will always come back on, that the pharmacy will always be stocked, that the grocery store shelves will always be full, and that a repairman is only a Google search away. We have outsourced virtually every competency our grandparents possessed to a complex web of systems, services, and supply chains that most of us couldn't begin to explain, let alone sustain. We have become, in the precise and damning sense of the word, helpless. Not by nature, but by design — by the seductive convenience of modernity.
And modernity is fragile.
Read More: https://discern.tv/skills-all-preppers-should-be-learning-today-before-something-devastating-happens/
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By JD RuckerThere is a peculiar arrogance embedded in modern American life — the assumption that the lights will always come back on, that the pharmacy will always be stocked, that the grocery store shelves will always be full, and that a repairman is only a Google search away. We have outsourced virtually every competency our grandparents possessed to a complex web of systems, services, and supply chains that most of us couldn't begin to explain, let alone sustain. We have become, in the precise and damning sense of the word, helpless. Not by nature, but by design — by the seductive convenience of modernity.
And modernity is fragile.
Read More: https://discern.tv/skills-all-preppers-should-be-learning-today-before-something-devastating-happens/
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.