For the Worst of Times

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In today’s current world, many people are truly not survivors, nor are they truly as protected as they believe. As people who started in the woods, using what’s in front of us as means of survival we have all instead become comfortable through the ages depending on what can be offered and manufactured. Today, we have a government that regulates and distributes the resources we want, enlist men and women to protect us to whatever ability they can and we as people, do not question. As a society we just accept what is handed to us, while we cozy up comfortably in our seats, losing all sense of skills that led us to this point. But do people truly know what to do when something goes wrong? Do people know how to defend themselves? What supplies to store? Techniques if they run out of supplies? Despite the fact that we have all grown comfortable in a life that seems safe and protected, in a world that seems to be going downhill, it is still important for people to develop important skills to survive, even if it’s for the “just in case” scenario.

It’s pretty simple to how we got to this certain point. We came to believe that our needs to know these basic skills of survival have slimmed down majorly. Why go hunting and gathering for food or even grow your own food, when there are supermarkets around the corner? Why learn how to protect ourselves when there are people paid to protect us? Why learn how to use certain manual tools when there are powered drills and an apparent endless amount of energy to use it? Why learn how to build things when others will take care of it for us? Sociologist professor Richard G. Mitchell Jr. states, “We live in a society which de-emphasizes an engagement in "culturecraft." Modernity gives us more things...

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...rance policy. One that takes us back to our roots some, and show us that we can be independent if we have to be, because in today’s world, we try to build ourselves very high, but the fall below is quite a drop, and you never know when we could topple over.

Works Cited

Glenn, David. "Doing Fieldwork Among Survivalists." The Chronicle of Higher Education 48.28 (2002). Academic OneFile. Web. 8 Apr. 2010.

McKinnell, Julia. "'Hurricane Katrina was the turning point for me. They knew a disaster was going to strike. They still couldn't help anyone.' Bestselling author Neil Strauss talks to Julia McKinnell about fear, survival, and lessons in character building." Maclean's 23 Mar. 2009: Academic OneFile. Web. 8 Apr. 2010.

United States. FEMA. 22 Aug. 2004. Web. 06 Apr. 2010. .

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