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Editor’s Introductory Note: This young man is prayerfully seeking a wife. He is offering an after-marriage gift of up to $50,000 to whoever introduces him to his bride with $18,000 after their marriage and another $16,000 to the individual who provided the introduction after the first two births of healthy children born to him and his wife, for a total potential gift of $50,000. For further details, see this link to his article posted on February 24th, 2025: My Quest For a Wife.

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(Continued from Part 4.)

Gold: What one ounce can buy in a grimy world

In the event that a “collapse” occurs and there is some sort of barter event in my area, you will likely not see me or any members of our group. It is incredibly doubtful that I or any member of our group would ever show up at a barter event as we already have everything that we need and stock extra in quantity just to avoid such events. An event such as this would likely have many security and OPSEC issues, could lead to the spread of contagious diseases, and likely would involve many desperate individuals. As you win 100 percent of the unnecessary fights that you avoid, this is relatively easy win for well-prepared individuals to achieve.

There are probably some out there who have a nice stack of gold and silver and somehow think there is a gigantic value in a grimy world as things will somehow automatically adjust in value. Maybe someday, but in this scenario, not so much. I do not need your gold and silver, but you probably need the goods that I have put away for such a time as this. How much is a meal worth when you are starving? For Esau, it was his birthright that gave him a right to the first-born blessing and a double portion of the inheritance. (See Genesis 25:29-34). How much is medicine worth to you that doctors have stored away when your child is dying?

Please do not tell me that people are somehow cruel for allowing unprepared individuals to die in such a scenario if on some theoretical level they could maybe possibly could save one person. The truth is that these individuals made a series of unfortunate decisions that got them to that point and prepared people made a series of decisions that got them to this point. Some families get regular bouts of “food poisoning” or gastrointestinal illness, but we do not as we have studied proper techniques of food preparation and sanitation to break cycles of illnesses and disease. I have had people tell me that it does not matter how they prepare or store their food and they are often the ones regularly writhing in pain. I learn very quickly, but some are slow learners.Continue reading“Preparedness in the New Golden Age or Grimy Age – Part 5, by Single Farmer”

Editor’s Introductory Note: This young man is prayerfully seeking a wife. He is offering an after-marriage gift of up to $50,000 to whoever introduces him to his bride with $18,000 after their marriage and another $16,000 to the individual who provided the introduction after the first two births of healthy children born to him and his wife, for a total potential gift of $50,000. For further details, see this link to his article posted on February 24th, 2025: My Quest For a Wife.

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(Continued from Part 3.)

Welcome to the Grimy Age

In this future time after the “golden age” (let us call it the grimy age), you are at your retreat and a biker is holding a knife to your young daughter’s throat demanding capitulation of your force to his renegade motorcycle gang (less fuel used, more efficient for raiding): what are you going to do? You have very few good options, but you first need to know that a loved one getting captured and held hostage is often the first act of surrender of a position. Most people are not experts in hostage negotiation tactics, have never even been trained in real fighting, and frankly are not warriors. Few people are as Heraclitus stated: “Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, 80 are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”

It helps to have someone providing overwatch, but people who get into these situations lack forethought, so I doubt someone is going to alert your group of riders coming in (to get non-combatants to safe positions and get your force ready for action) and enforce Rule 308 from an overhead position as that situation likely would never develop with planning and some accurate marksmanship. You win 100 percent of the battles where you never need to engage as the enemy is expending his resources often getting deeper and deeper into your territory (lessons were taught to the French and Germans in Russia in 1812 and 1941). It is often better to be as inconspicuous as possible as any engagement can be costly.

It is unfortunate that these situations will someday exist as more and more desperate people try to fill their bellies and embrace Machiavellian ethics as the rule of law collapses. Since people desire an answer, I will tell you that most individuals will go for the easiest “solution” like the temporary promise of safety with a hug from your crying child with most likely your throats being slit anyway. Dangerous men are not stupid and to leave witnesses behind is foolhardy at best or worse angry people in your rear position. As the old saying goes, “they can’t hang you twice.” I doubt that this situation would occur to anyone in my retreat group as we trained for it extensively.Continue reading“Preparedness in the New Golden Age or Grimy Age – Part 4, by Single Farmer”

Editor’s Introductory Note: This young man is prayerfully seeking a wife. He is offering an after-marriage gift of up to $50,000 to whoever introduces him to his bride with $18,000 after their marriage and another $16,000 to the individual who provided the introduction after the first two births of healthy children born to him and his wife, for a total potential gift of $50,000. For further details, see this link to his article posted on February 24th, 2025: My Quest For a Wife.

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(Continued from Part 2.)

There was another Golden Age that ended in a spectacular fashion almost bringing down the country for many years along with the economy. In this Golden Age of the Roaring Twenties, many believed that prosperity would be everlasting and ever-expanding: The President of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company Myron E. Forbes has been reputed to have said on January 12, 1928 that “…there will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity.” In less than two years, the “Great Depression” began in October 1929 and in less than a decade Pierce Arrow would be out of business. The Golden Age of the 1920s was followed by the “Dirty Thirties” of the Depression years which was a grimy age and only “ending” with the entrance of the United States into the Second World War.

I am trained in understanding situations. I understand my capabilities and do not bite off more than I can chew. I understand the capabilities of everyone who will be at our retreat. We are realistic people. In the event that this retreat and retreats around the country are ever activated in an emergency where the law and order has collapsed, supply lines are gone and not coming back from an underdetermined time which could realistically be decades. This is not the Second World War where supplies will flow in. The “issue was never in doubt” once the United States entered and mobilized and the Axis forces had very little possibility of being able to realistically strike the industrial capacity within the continental United States interrupting our factory output as the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) (later known as the USAF becoming an independent service branch after the war) did to Axis factories.

Factories in the United States which would ordinarily produce civilian household items such as sewing machines could also produce handguns. The Singer Sewing Machine company had the capability of producing .45 caliber pistols, but these were such high quality that the company’s mechanical abilities, while not being able to produce a hundred pistols a day as was originally contracted, eventually were used to build items where the company’s commitment to quality control and exceptional mechanical tolerances could produce fine instruments (If you have a true Singer .45, it is worth a lot.)Continue reading“Preparedness in the New Golden Age or Grimy Age – Part 3, by Single Farmer”

Editor’s Introductory Note: This young man is prayerfully seeking a wife. He is offering an after-marriage gift of up to $50,000 to whoever introduces him to his bride with $18,000 after their marriage and another $16,000 to the individual who provided the introduction after the first two births of healthy children born to him and his wife, for a total potential gift of $50,000. For further details, see this link to his article posted on February 24th, 2025: My Quest For a Wife.

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(Continued from Part 1.)

We are not a wealthy society and it is doubtful that we are on the cusp of a golden age. We are a dying republic likely at the stage of “twilight’s last gleaming” before descending into 1,000 years of darkness unless it turns around really quickly. There is still time. When asked, what type of government we had in 1787 at the close of the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin remarked, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Our republic is currently riddled with corruption that it has been recently accused of being a “oligarchy” and this cancer is pervasive as a kleptocrats pilfer the rotting scraps on our nation’s bones. We owe more money than any country in human history. On average, our countrymen have lost much physical vigor compared to their counterparts of the 1960s with the average man being 30 pounds heavier composed of most likely not muscle and are the most medicated our nation has ever been. Morality is dying with a miniscule population of morally upright, virtuous people. Civic virtue is gasping for air: In the Second World War, boys would try to get into war and many succeeded. Within a generation, legions of grown men would dodge their civic duties starting in Vietnam. Even the smallest things reflect our decline: the currency in circulation has very little intrinsic value.Continue reading“Preparedness in the New Golden Age or Grimy Age – Part 2, by Single Farmer”