Saturday, February 2, 2013
The Gist of Doomsday Preppers
Popular Show
Many people are aware that there is a growing movement here in the USA regarding "Prepping" or being prepared for emergencies. Estimates are that there are over 4-5 million people involved in this subliminal activity. National Geographic TV exploits this idea in a NEGATIVE context each week. It's called "Doomsday Preppers."
Watch What You Watch
Each show of Doomsday Preppers highlights a prepper person or family somewhere in the US. Each one is preparing for any number of different scenarios. They can be anything from an EMP pulse from the sun (or atomic bomb) to that of a polar shift resulting in severe climactic change throughout the entire planet. The more exaggerated, the better. This helps make these individuals look more foolish (or in some cases really wacko) to help promote National Geographic's agenda. They highlight people with some really far-out ideas about why they are preppers. That's the idea behind this show. The show producers want to project a NEGATIVE viewpoint against anyone who is considered a prepper. They don't come out and say it, but they believe that these people are just plain crazy! Preppers, after all, are living on the fringe and are not playing with a full deck of cards. They're like the nuts who want to own guns.
The New York Times reports on the "fringe prepper culture": "Even more seriously, what is the attraction of continuing to live in a world that will almost certainly not have television or the Internet, depriving doomsday types of the shows and Web sites that fuel their paranoia and sell products exploiting it?" (Incidentally, the NYTs doesn't think too much of Preppers either!)
What to Take Away
Let the others think what they want about being ready for emergencies. Learn whatever you can about how to survive a disaster. Remember the Katrina and Sandy victims. Learn from their plight. Smile if and when another disaster happens because you and your family will have the knowledge and foresight to know what to do and how to help others. Learn and believe also that you can't count on the government to help! Become self-sufficient.
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Your take on the show is completely wrong. And seeing how you have no personal experience (like actually being on it) thats not surprising. It's really annoying listening to people such as yourself spouting opinions on something they know nothing about. The show just tells it like it is. The producers don't have a hidden agenda, they are documenting a phenomenon that is catching on. Living a self sufficient life. We have always lived an eco-friendly, self sustainable life style and that's exactly what they showed. There is as in life a wide variety of people and ways of doing things. Judging by the popularity of the show people want to know more about how to do just that, keep their family safe and sustained in a sometimes very uncertain world.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to post my last comment or do you just post ones that agree with you?!?!
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ReplyDeleteAnyone with some common sense can see that there is a slant on the Doomsday Preppers show. And, what exactly does it take to be an "expert" ? A TV appearance? Hardly.
The show does show several different people who are - shall we say - on the extreme end of the scale? They seem to favor these people.
I haven't been on the show, nor would I like to be on the show. It's ironic that they find these people who want to show their "secrets" to millions of viewers. I, like you watch, and try and learn things that may be useful in times of disasters.
Many of the people highlighted, have spent a tremendous amount of $$ for their preps. The average Joe can't afford this.
NatGeo would benefit if they showed some more realistic people who have limited monetary resources.