With the government becoming more and more corrupt as the days pass by and chaos is overtaking our culture — what else do you call it when people are legitimately trying to force you to accept that a man can magically become a woman? — increasing numbers of individuals have decided to opt out of the current system and live off the grid. And while there’s something awesome about being completely and totally self-sufficient and away from the nonsense of the world, technological advances have made that extremely difficult to pull off.
Anyone who has been paying attention lately has clearly seen our nation is headed for some kind of major meltdown and are doing everything they can to prepare for the worst.
A report from to Reuters says it has now been estimated that there are 20 million “preppers” here in the U.S.
Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the “Survival & Prepper Show” in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical kits, and every type of knife imaginable.
A self-described “30-year-old lesbian from Indiana,” Morgan is one of a new breed of Americans getting ready to survive political upheaval and natural catastrophes, a pursuit that until recently was largely associated with far-right movements such as white nationalists since the 1980s.
Researchers say the number of preppers has doubled in size to about 20 million since 2017.
It’s also being reported that a total of 250,000 individuals in the country have decided to dive into such a lifestyle themselves.
As energy costs and home prices continue to rise, more Americans are choosing to live off-grid. According to one estimate, more than 250,000 people in the U.S. have an off-grid lifestyle. While the potential cost savings are certainly attractive, technology and interest in tiny homes, shipping container homes and other energy-efficient housing alternatives are allowing families interested in sustainable lifestyles to move to off-grid living.
Perhaps you are one of those folks who is seriously considering an “off-the-grid” lifestyle? If you are, it’s critical to do research if you want to be successfully self-sufficient. It can be very challenging to make the switch from being on the grid.
Living off the grid means committing to sourcing everything you need to survive and thrive independently: food, shelter, energy and most importantly: water. It’s empowering, until the moment things don’t work. Like when you’re halfway through a delightful hot shower at the end of a January day and the water pump suddenly stops working, sending you into the frozen darkness with a wet headful of shampoo and some tools to address the problem.
One of the biggest concern a lot of people have when adopting this kind of lifestyle is loneliness, which is why many look for a community of survivalists they can join.
About 55 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah, there is a community of hundreds of survivalists who have banded together to help transition off the grid.
A community of society-shunning Americans launched a survivalist haven in the Utah desert after finding themselves alienated from the modern world.
Hundreds of people have set themselves up to live off the land under ‘Operation Self-Reliance,’ feeling that getting off-the-grid is the solution to a crumbling culture.
The community was founded by a 74-year-old man by the name of Philip Gleason, who issued a warning that “a variety of apocalyptic scenarios could play out in the coming years.”
Gleason said he fears a variety of apocalyptic scenarios could play out in the coming years, from a power grid failure taking down America’s electricity, to nuclear war and cyber attacks.
‘This is just history repeating itself,’ he cautioned. ‘At the start of any cultural revolution, the people that control their food are the ones that come out on top.’
As Americans consistently share that they are losing faith in the nation’s institutions, those that have made a new life on Riverbed Ranch have essentially set up their own self-surviving nation state.
Society has become so saturated in absolute insanity that it’s not hard to imagine a lot of people beginning to contemplate a move off the grid and into communities that share their beliefs and values. That’s how things used to be done, right?
The big takeaway here is that those who decide to unplug from the grid, if they have resolve, are going to find themselves living a much more fulfilling lifestyle devoid of the mental health issues that plague a society that is dependent on the internet and social media.
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