[LMB] OT: if civilization fell

[anmar mirza]

On 2/1/08, Harimad <harimad2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> This brings up an interesting question: what would you have to offer
> if civilization fell?


I could recreate most of a 19th century technology (with enough
time and material support).  I could probably, given time (it takes
an infrastructure to support higher and higher technologies) do up to
about 1950 for many things and up to modern day for a very few.

As far as directly offering right after a fall of civilization, I spent my
teenage years learning wilderness survival and homesteading skills,
so direct survival isn't much of an issue providing there's no ravenous
hordes.  I can provide leadership under difficult conditions, and can
make a small, local society work.  I can organize for common survival
and defense and can provide a knowledge base for producing or
improvising just about anything in the above mentioned levels of
technologies.

The biggest concerns I have about a fall of civilization have little to
do with material survival, but everything to do with a return to
feudalism and barbarism.  It doesn't matter if we have a nice,
functioning little village when the army of the dictator comes raping
and pillaging.




-- 
Anmar Mirza EMT, N9ISY, Central Region NCRC Coordinator, Owner Lost Creek
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