The core of the prepper fantasy: "What if the world ended in the *precise* way that made *me* the most important person?" The ultra-rich fantasize about emerging from luxury bunkers with an army of mercs and bitcoin thumbdrives to a world in ruins that they rule using their "leadership skills."
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@pluralistic Survivalism is a collection of absurd delusions.
We survive together, or not at all.
https://perfectwhole.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/survivalism/
@Julie @pluralistic Concise and accurate.
“The only real survivalism is collective action.”