getting along with folks is going to be secondary to getting food in your mouth.
Ah, but getting along with folks is key to getting food in your mouth. Who will help you? How will you defend yourself? With just a gun? One gun against a hundred people seems hardly likely to work. Well-organized teams work much better… I mean, isn’t that why we evolved to live together? Cooperation makes life easier.
I know we get hung up on definitions here,
It may sound like that, but its about articulating ways that work vs. ways that don’t. Being able to distinguish between Agriculture and Horticulture is like being able to distinguish between Queen Annes Lace and Poison Hemlock. One is nourishing, the other is poisonous.
sit around and discuss it with your friends?
Haha… um… Yeah! And also work on the skills, and also plant gardens and also whatever. To make sure we survive, not just as a group, but as a people, I work to spread the knowledge of working systems to people… to me that’s what rewilding is. Switching from a civilized system to a wild one. That will take a looooooong time as long as Civ exists, but as soon as collapse starts, more and more people will seek systems that work. Some may not find them and die. Some may discover them without any previous knowledge. Some may have the previous knowledge. The point for me is to learn what systems work and those that don’t so that when collapse happens, I’ll know what the best strategy is. If I see people cutting down forests to grow food, I’ll know they made an error in choosing a working system.
Caches are good, but I think most people won’t make it out to you in time; most people will stay at home and believe that the crash is temporary (except maybe me! Hope you got an extra bunk!) By then it will be too late I think. Maybe not. I’m not saying I’ll never make caches or anything. I need to get going on that.