{"id":36544,"date":"2018-08-08T06:29:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36544"},"modified":"2018-08-08T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:29:53","slug":"selco-observe-and-prepare-for-the-confusion-panic-mayhem-of-shtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36544","title":{"rendered":"SELCO: Observe and Prepare for the Confusion, Panic, & Mayhem of SHTF"},"content":{"rendered":"

SELCO: Observe and Prepare for the Confusion, Panic, & Mayhem of SHTF<\/a><\/h3>\n
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I have been writing articles and doing survival courses for years, and while it is much easier to show the importance of basics in real courses, it is a bit harder to do that in my articles. That\u2019s because we as humans tend to look for flashy things. We love quick and interesting facts that will occupy our attention. But you must also prepare for the basics so that you can perform those things during the confusion, panic, and mayhem of SHTF. You must observe your surroundings before<\/em> anything terrible happens.<\/p>\n

Basics are simply that: basic \u2013 and because that we often overlook it, or forget it.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0example, an article with news about the latest development in tensions between the US and Iran with all the flaming rhetoric will catch more attention than an article about how to grow tomatoes.<\/p>\n

We look for flashy stuff, but the majority of us need to go back to the basics (or at least to refresh them).<\/p>\n

Every now and then, I like to remind people about that.<\/p>\n

Why I don\u2019t like list posts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lists about what to do and what not to do in the form of \u201c10 things to do\u201d or \u201c10 things not to do\u201d or \u201c10 things to have\u201d\u00a0are not my favorite, because some people tend to think those \u201c10 things\u201d are definitive lists that solve all problems.<\/p>\n

But, as we write, it is easy to put it in that way as a concept. You as a reader must understand it is a list that continues, and as long as you understand that you need to constantly refresh your basics.<\/p>\n

Big world events usually will happen no matter what you do or think about it.\u00a0 You need to operate in your \u201csmall circle\u201d where you actually can change things for real.<\/p>\n

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SELCO: Observe and Prepare for the Confusion, Panic, & Mayhem of SHTF I have been writing articles and doing survival courses for years, and while it is much easier to show the importance of basics in real courses, it is a bit harder to do that in my articles. That\u2019s because we as humans tend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2924,4019,648,650,18158,728,5756],"class_list":["post-36544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-emergency","tag-emergency-planning","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-selco","tag-shtf","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36545,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36544\/revisions\/36545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}