"The Survivalist Pledge:

To help all that can be helped,
To defend all that can be defended,
To save all that can be saved,
To free all that seek freedom,
To stay alive as long as I can and stay free as long as I live.

The late 1980s and now the 1990s have seen an increase in predictions of doom, gloom, and disaster (a phenomenon PSYCHOLOGY TODAY magazine has tagged "Millennium Fever"). There are some "treatments" for Millennium Fever that should prevent survivalists from succumbing to this disease. A goodly dose of logic, coupled with the calm attitude the survivalist cultivates, will help keep Millennium Fever within reasonable ("Low-grade") bounds. Be sure to examine each prediction for practicality and likelihood. It's a safe bet that there will be weather disasters, but I rather doubt that the Gregorian calendar will affect the number or intensity of these yearly disasters. Economic collapse is possible, but due to a spendthrift society and fiat money, not to the year 2000. Polar inversion, ice age, or culmination of the Greenhouse Effect are all possible, but there is considerable evidence both ways--so pay your money and take your chance.

A second anti-pyretic for Millennium Fever are the stores and skills we survivalists possess. We don't have to join the mad dash to the store or try to cram survival knowledge. Remember the "survival fad" of the late 1970s? I expect we'll see a similar rise in fly-by-night "survival companies" as unscrupulous merchants cash in on a panic-stricken, gullible public. We will see advances in survival technology, but you need to look closely at "bargains", the "Latest invention", and similar claims. A possible beneficial side effect of Millennium Fever may be the raising of the survival consciousness of the general public and some good press (for a change!) for the survival movement. Millennium Fever may bring new blood into the movement, just as the survival fad of the 1970s did. Let's teach these new people to be survivalists, not survivalists or faddists. Millennium Fever promises to be an interesting disease to observe, study, and document. I trust the treatments I mention above will help survivalists avoid the worst of the symptoms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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