Occasionally, I am compelled to share my true inner thoughts on what I am seeing in the world and how I believe we should be moving forward. Yes, unbelievably, I do hold some of my thoughts back. If you’ve been reading my Substack for a while, portions of the following will sound familiar, but we often must hear things more than once for ideas and actions to properly sink in.
Last weekend a guy from my church invited the men to his property for some shooting on his range. It turns out that about 80-90% of the men at my church are not only extremely well-armed with AR-15s, shotguns, various long rifles, and a wide array of handguns, most are fairly competent marksmen. We were all surprised at the huge turnout and one of us remarked that our church has a company-sized militia force at its disposal, several of whom are OIF OEF veterans. This is not in a red state, nor a small town, but I believe that in the event of collapse our church would remain standing; it’s members protected and fed. For people who don’t yet have the wherewithal to move to a small town and work from home, I can’t think of a better security situation than a church full of armed men.
Pete, I'd love to hear your thoughts on exurbs as an approach. I'm on 5 acres and a well, but also close (about an hour) to a major metro. I'd prefer to have moved further out, but I'm tied down somewhat because of young kids with my ex-wife.
Thank you Pete for this excellent list and we should all either have done this or be working towards this right now every single day. If anyone can’t do these they’re in for some real trouble up ahead and even if you can’t get land outside the city at least find a land buddy who does and print off some emergency directions for a bugout plan for when SHTF.
The only thing I’d add is to radically improving your bodily health ASAP which can be done in a matter of weeks and for that I’d recommend 3 free PDFs.
In order of ease of use, I’d say learn how to do a basic yoga routine like the Five Tibetan Rites and make that your morning warmup, Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima, and Phoenix Protocol by August Dunning about Dry Fasting.
A basic yoga routine acts a radical booster to any heavy lifting routine and most importantly tightens your Mind-Body connection, Mishima will radically alter your worldview when it comes to why we should make our bodily development our top priority, and Dunning’s work from his time at NASA on Dry Fasting will render most of Big Pharma bankrupt within the next couple decades assuming they don’t manage to genocide us all first.
The free PDF for the Five Tibetan Rites is just the instructions and pictures on how to do the actual exercises.
August Dunning’s own YouTube channel for The Phoenix Protocol about Dry Fasting is a great resource for this as well and he makes it somewhat obvious that he’a a deeply pro-Freedom individual.
The Phoenix Protocol Dry Fasting By A Dunning : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
I’ll break these three down further in the comments where I have inserted one small joke referencing Pete’s Substack.
I agree with so much of this but just want to share some personal experience on a few things so they don't just get glossed over. I think that moving to and finding smaller communities is important, however it can be challenging. 2 years ago I got married, moved to a rural area with a small (we're talking 2400 ppl) town, and started a new job. These were all great things, however there have definitely been some challenges. While we have a group of friends, many of my closest friends moved and spread out significantly since our wedding and so I don't see them much if at all now (not to mention they all have kids and we don't having gotten married a little later in life), meeting new friends as an adult in a new small town is challenging especially when my job is 40 minutes away in a small town two over from where I live. Building community is hard when you're the new person and there aren't many community gatherings (think walking clubs, VFW halls, etc) nearby.
I grew up catholic but haven't attended church regularly in a long time and my husband has never been terribly religious as that wasn't a big part of his family growing up though he's open to it and definitely isn't an atheist and attends mass when we go with my family on vacations or for special occasions like Christmas or Mothers Day or the blessing mass my mom has said for our anniversary every year.
I guess what I'm saying is it's been difficult to build a new community with social connections since all those changes took place and I miss having a few more social connections than I currently do. I'm not always sure where to look or how to find ways to meet people and integrate into my new town.
Maybe I just need to go back to church - there are two catholic and multiple protestant ones within a 5 mile radius.
To quote you, Pete: Become what your enemies fear.
Last weekend a guy from my church invited the men to his property for some shooting on his range. It turns out that about 80-90% of the men at my church are not only extremely well-armed with AR-15s, shotguns, various long rifles, and a wide array of handguns, most are fairly competent marksmen. We were all surprised at the huge turnout and one of us remarked that our church has a company-sized militia force at its disposal, several of whom are OIF OEF veterans. This is not in a red state, nor a small town, but I believe that in the event of collapse our church would remain standing; it’s members protected and fed. For people who don’t yet have the wherewithal to move to a small town and work from home, I can’t think of a better security situation than a church full of armed men.
Pete, I'd love to hear your thoughts on exurbs as an approach. I'm on 5 acres and a well, but also close (about an hour) to a major metro. I'd prefer to have moved further out, but I'm tied down somewhat because of young kids with my ex-wife.
Thank you Pete for this excellent list and we should all either have done this or be working towards this right now every single day. If anyone can’t do these they’re in for some real trouble up ahead and even if you can’t get land outside the city at least find a land buddy who does and print off some emergency directions for a bugout plan for when SHTF.
The only thing I’d add is to radically improving your bodily health ASAP which can be done in a matter of weeks and for that I’d recommend 3 free PDFs.
In order of ease of use, I’d say learn how to do a basic yoga routine like the Five Tibetan Rites and make that your morning warmup, Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima, and Phoenix Protocol by August Dunning about Dry Fasting.
A basic yoga routine acts a radical booster to any heavy lifting routine and most importantly tightens your Mind-Body connection, Mishima will radically alter your worldview when it comes to why we should make our bodily development our top priority, and Dunning’s work from his time at NASA on Dry Fasting will render most of Big Pharma bankrupt within the next couple decades assuming they don’t manage to genocide us all first.
The free PDF for the Five Tibetan Rites is just the instructions and pictures on how to do the actual exercises.
http://www.trangsuoitu.org/SachPDF/The%20Five%20Tibetan%20Rites.pdf
Physical copy of Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima is getting impossible to find but the PDF is free.
https://archive.org/details/sunAndSteel_201810
August Dunning’s own YouTube channel for The Phoenix Protocol about Dry Fasting is a great resource for this as well and he makes it somewhat obvious that he’a a deeply pro-Freedom individual.
The Phoenix Protocol Dry Fasting By A Dunning : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
I’ll break these three down further in the comments where I have inserted one small joke referencing Pete’s Substack.
I agree with so much of this but just want to share some personal experience on a few things so they don't just get glossed over. I think that moving to and finding smaller communities is important, however it can be challenging. 2 years ago I got married, moved to a rural area with a small (we're talking 2400 ppl) town, and started a new job. These were all great things, however there have definitely been some challenges. While we have a group of friends, many of my closest friends moved and spread out significantly since our wedding and so I don't see them much if at all now (not to mention they all have kids and we don't having gotten married a little later in life), meeting new friends as an adult in a new small town is challenging especially when my job is 40 minutes away in a small town two over from where I live. Building community is hard when you're the new person and there aren't many community gatherings (think walking clubs, VFW halls, etc) nearby.
I grew up catholic but haven't attended church regularly in a long time and my husband has never been terribly religious as that wasn't a big part of his family growing up though he's open to it and definitely isn't an atheist and attends mass when we go with my family on vacations or for special occasions like Christmas or Mothers Day or the blessing mass my mom has said for our anniversary every year.
I guess what I'm saying is it's been difficult to build a new community with social connections since all those changes took place and I miss having a few more social connections than I currently do. I'm not always sure where to look or how to find ways to meet people and integrate into my new town.
Maybe I just need to go back to church - there are two catholic and multiple protestant ones within a 5 mile radius.