I have read Aguirre's book, and I even talked to him over the internet (can't remember where, I thought "The High Road" but I can't find the posts or PM to back that up. Stinks getting old...equin wrote:I agree that neighbors should be encouraged to do what they can to help survive in the event of a TEOTWAWKI scenario. However, in the event such a scenario ever occurs (and I hope it never does) I think helping to arm any surviving neighbors would be prudent from a survivalist standpoint, assuming the neighbors' trustworthiness, of course. I arrived at this opinion after reading Fernando Ferfal Aguirre's book, "The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse." He wrote about his experience in Argentina after that country suffered its economic collapse in 2001. As he stated, a lot of people think that going off to some rural cabin in the wilderness and fending off for one's self will help, but I disagree. That's the last place I'd want to be because you would then leave yourself highly vulnerable as a target for roving bands of thugs intent on murder, mayhem, rape and pillaging your lone little cabin out in the middle of nowhere with no one else to help you, or worse, no one else to hear your and your family's screams if they succeed in assaulting your "stronghold" of a cabin.
But yes, he had some very good insight into an EOTWAWKI scenario, and I feel my community of about 60 - 70 homes in a rural area with two ways in (not counting cross country) would suffice for a bug in, and the thought of bugging out after reading his book seems crazy. Not all of the residents here can be trusted to do the right thing, but I feel I know enough of them that we could weed out the problems, and help those that need it. We are close enough to supplies and civilization to survive, and more importantly far enough away from where large cities are to survive.
Beyond family, I doubt too many will be welcome who do not live here, and even family would do well to bring something to the table.