The whole rugged individualism is such BS, frankly. It is the province and mindset of the truly clueless.
Are there some (US) people around who could survive if you dropped them in the middle of nowhere? A few, maybe. Even trained survivalists would have a hard time without having some starting gear and clothing to start with... clothin…
The whole rugged individualism is such BS, frankly. It is the province and mindset of the truly clueless.
Are there some (US) people around who could survive if you dropped them in the middle of nowhere? A few, maybe. Even trained survivalists would have a hard time without having some starting gear and clothing to start with... clothing and gear that they (in all likelihood) did not make.
I used to watch a show called Alone (not sure if it is still running).
TBH, it was a fairly boring show. It mostly consisted of watching people slowly starve to death while on the way to a psychological collapse from being... you guessed it, alone.
In all of the seasons I watched, I do not think anyone lasted the entire time--but luckily it was a last man standing contest.
Even small injuries (by modern standards)could take you out of the contest (and not because they forced you out, but because you could not actually survive and you sat-phoned for them to come save you).
A majority of people simply collapsed psychologically--particularly those with families. They literally could not handle being alone. It destroyed them.
And most of the contestants were actual survivalist types,
It WAS pretty educational though--about some survival things, but mostly about human psychology.
Most humans handle isolation VERY poorly. As Aristotle observed in his Politics--man is a political animal--by which he means that our need and desire for community/socialization is innate and central.
That is why there was so much resistance to lockdowns and the closing of social spaces--because the digital space pales in comparison--it does not actuallymeet the needs of people for socialization nearly as well as being in the company of actual people.
The survivalists from Alone would have done better than the average person--usually because I suspect they tend to be more introverted, thus their social requirements are lower (but still extant).
The whole rugged individualism is such BS, frankly. It is the province and mindset of the truly clueless.
Are there some (US) people around who could survive if you dropped them in the middle of nowhere? A few, maybe. Even trained survivalists would have a hard time without having some starting gear and clothing to start with... clothing and gear that they (in all likelihood) did not make.
I used to watch a show called Alone (not sure if it is still running).
TBH, it was a fairly boring show. It mostly consisted of watching people slowly starve to death while on the way to a psychological collapse from being... you guessed it, alone.
In all of the seasons I watched, I do not think anyone lasted the entire time--but luckily it was a last man standing contest.
Even small injuries (by modern standards)could take you out of the contest (and not because they forced you out, but because you could not actually survive and you sat-phoned for them to come save you).
A majority of people simply collapsed psychologically--particularly those with families. They literally could not handle being alone. It destroyed them.
And most of the contestants were actual survivalist types,
It WAS pretty educational though--about some survival things, but mostly about human psychology.
I wonder how they did in the pandemic lockdown.
Most humans handle isolation VERY poorly. As Aristotle observed in his Politics--man is a political animal--by which he means that our need and desire for community/socialization is innate and central.
That is why there was so much resistance to lockdowns and the closing of social spaces--because the digital space pales in comparison--it does not actuallymeet the needs of people for socialization nearly as well as being in the company of actual people.
The survivalists from Alone would have done better than the average person--usually because I suspect they tend to be more introverted, thus their social requirements are lower (but still extant).