The typical image of a doomsday prepper is someone who is preparing for an apocalyptic event, usually a nuclear one. In such cases, you don’t build ranches and smokehouses, because those will be destroyed by said apocalyptic event. The goal is to build a hidden, fortified shelter, usually a bunker, and survive there for a period of time—either until you expect it to be safe to emerge, or the rest of your natural lifespan, depending on how bad you expect things to be.
Now, I’m not saying this imagined plan is perfect, but that’s why the strawman in froody’s empty head doesn’t have a ranch. It wouldn’t make sense for the kind of crisis they’re anticipating.
There are, of course, people preparing for an anarchic collapse… those people are doing what froody is saying (and buying guns, and ammo, and making friends with the neighbors to help hold territory). But they don’t match the prepper stereotype froody is picking a fight with, because again, that stereotype is planning for a different type of crisis, and froody doesn’t understand the distinction.
The typical image of a doomsday prepper is someone who is preparing for an apocalyptic event, usually a nuclear one. In such cases, you don’t build ranches and smokehouses, because those will be destroyed by said apocalyptic event. The goal is to build a hidden, fortified shelter, usually a bunker, and survive there for a period of time—either until you expect it to be safe to emerge, or the rest of your natural lifespan, depending on how bad you expect things to be.
Now, I’m not saying this imagined plan is perfect, but that’s why the strawman in froody’s empty head doesn’t have a ranch. It wouldn’t make sense for the kind of crisis they’re anticipating.
There are, of course, people preparing for an anarchic collapse… those people are doing what froody is saying (and buying guns, and ammo, and making friends with the neighbors to help hold territory). But they don’t match the prepper stereotype froody is picking a fight with, because again, that stereotype is planning for a different type of crisis, and froody doesn’t understand the distinction.