Coach Spore Diesel on Nostr: Why am I talking about counties and towns, and not households and homesteads? Because ...

Why am I talking about counties and towns, and not households and homesteads?

Because solo preppers do not survive.

Communities survive. Because community is one of the human species' evolutionary advantages.

Another one is relentless stamina, by the way. We hunt by making the prey tired through relentless pursuit. That's another topic. Also the plasticity of the infant brain. There are a few.

Western society tends to fail to lean into some of these. Rugged individualism is a dangerous myth.