prepper

Bitcoin is just a tinfoil hat combined with a prepper mentality, or libertarian wishful thinking.

The American prepper rarely says it, but seems to be afraid of civil breakdown, perhaps in the form of some race war.

It's a pretty big contrast between that mindset and the common prepper/survivalist mindset.

Heh, I think everyone with a good imagination has at least lazily considered being a prepper...

I am happy that citizens can own guns (I have gone a little off the deep end as a prepper…).

I'm not about to go all doomsday prepper but I guess it does not hurt to at least have an idea.

I interviewed Y2K prepper/survivalists who quit their jobs and followed approximately the above advice.

I'm not a prepper either, but where I live the power outages are frequent enough that it makes you think about backup plans.

I'd consider buying one for my home to fulfill my once-in-awhile prepper thoughts.

I watched a couple of episodes of some prepper show on Discovery.

I agree with you there can be very distasteful aspects of the prepper group, but it's like that with pretty much any group of people.

What's interesting is that few prepper/survivalist discussions -- that I've seen, maybe I'm missing them -- mention the opportunity costs of moving to the backwoods.

About extended meanings of the term "cash", any serious prepper will have some amount of cheap spirits and maybe cigarettes stockpiled.

The "prepper" mindset seems to be about isolationist survival, Castaway style.

This is verging on "Turner Diaries" level of prepper pandering.

Prepper supply companies see big dollar signs in reinforcing that; "don't rely on your neighbors, don't look to local governments to organize for you, watch out only for yourself!