The Mind-Set of a Safety Net

 

Guest Comment:

I was watching the news today and they had this one tornado survivor talking about the aftermath of the Joplin disaster and how he could hear the heavy equipment and knew that help was coming. This really got me to thinking about the “mind set” of people and how they just “know” that help is coming no matter what. This way of thinking is positive but also can be extremely unrealistic.

This is what this Modern Survival site is about, preparing for when there is NO ONE there to come to the rescue, when there is NO ONE to help you or those people around you for a long time IF ever. People have this ingrained in there thoughts that why prepare and why store up anything, everything will be okay within a week or so because the government is going to come to the rescue no matter what. This has to do with all over the entire world and why so many people are caught off guard when disaster does strike.

I really feel that there is a real mental barrier that has to be breached within people to actually feel that the worst can and does happen and people have to plan and be prepared for it. People also have to feel that they might be totally on their own and the cavalry is not going to come to save them.

Ken adds: This site and many other respectable survival preparedness sites certainly espouse the mindset of self-reliance, at least enough of it to get by for awhile – the more the better. It is unfortunately true that many folks knowingly and unknowingly enter situations which present risk, or live life this way – often at high risk levels, while being subconsciously (or even consciously) reassured that there are safety nets in place. We are fortunate that much of modern society does indeed provide safety nets, however, to rely upon or expect to be ‘saved’ from disastrous situations could become threatening to way-of-life, or even life-threatening.

While the web of safety nets that are around many of us provide some peace of mind, they are also expensive to build and maintain, and are partly to blame for some of the atrocious debt that we are currently burdened with as a country. A government ‘Nanny’ is not what many of us want. Years ago the majority of people could do just fine without the Nanny. Unfortunately nowadays we seem to have crossed the point of no return whereby more than 50% are in favor of the Nanny State, and are in many ways depending on the many safety nets that exist. The problem is, many are using these nets for their daily living, rather than for safety-emergency only. Just an opinion…

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