Jim’s Daily Rant. Our Western Civilization Is Now Obsolete.

I watched today’s 13 Minute Podcast NATO Preparing for Preemptive War — And Now This Leaked Call CONFIRMS It | By: Redacted. Their guest speaker was a breath of fresh air as she gave her viewpoint.

She discussed the current situation but I walked away with a long distance view of our situation. I was struck when she mentioned the word “Obsolete”. My mind then raced into that distant view.

The truth is for the last 30 to 60 years, our Western Civilization has been collapsing and our governments have been trying to ignore it and dawdle it off. I believe the official governmental term for “dawdle” is “Kicking the can”. For non-political types, this is similar to loitering on the Titanic’s deck out of non-thinking.

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I am reminded of the factual book Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Narrative that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

After reading it, I wrote this article for a Prepper Website of mine:

52. Leadership Lessons Learned From Ship Wrecked Groups.

Re: The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Narrative that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

Five years ago my son, who seldom reads a book, threw me the above book and said, "Read this." It is based on the manuscript by the First Mate of the only recording of a ship deliberately sunk by a whale. The Movie In The Heart Of The Sea was based on his manuscript. I read it from a survivalist's point of view. Below are some facts not mentioned by the author but gleamed.

1. The Captain went into shock and moored the ship's three long boats to the wreck for three days as if it was a wake. He forbade anyone from boarding her.

2. Unknown to all, the cook had retrieved the maps, compass, ship's clock and sextant and had them hidden in his long boat for those three days. No one else had thought of them until the ship sank.

3. On the fourth day the Captain studied the map and decided to proceed to South America, a 90 day journey. For some reason he declined to head to a known trading island just 6 days away.

4. As I recall, 23 men set out and only 3 men survived.

5. The ship had giant tortoises aboard as ballast to keep the ship from listing. One was placed in each long boat for food. The rest were left on the ship. Some could have been sun dried aboard the vessel while it was sinking.

6. Each long boat had a small cask of fresh water aboard. They could have half emptied more water casks so they would float and lashed them to their boats or towed them.

7. There was still food in the galley that they failed to retrieve.

I just finished another excellent book that I recommend - Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World, By Joan Druett.

The book chronicles the history of a small schooner that in 1864 crashed on rocks 300 miles South of New Zealand, in the sub-Antarctic region. Its 5 man crew made it to shore and suffered weekly gales and hurricanes plus near freezing temperature most of the time.

A few months later another larger ship foundered 20 miles away on the other side of the island with 19 crewman making it to shore. There was an impassable mountain between them.

Almost two years later 5 of the 5 crewmen made it home alive on their own.

Only 3 of the 19 crew were rescued by luck.

One of the biggest differences between the two groups was leadership style and morale.

The book makes a perfect case study of survival group morale, starvation signs and what may work and may not not work in group survival.

My Conclusions:

1. We are accustomed to military rule in that you must obey orders or subject to being shot. That’s great for the military but what about leading a few merged families? Gonna shoot them?

2. When under stress, shock, depression, and/or starvation one cannot reason and plan properly. Therefore, emergency plans should already be prepared for such an emergency.

3. In a survival mode, leadership must be altered so that when a leader falters (for any reason) another leader can step forward that is acceptable to the group.

The 5 of 5 shipwreck crew elected a leader who could be fired if necessary. Oddly they elected the Captain. At times he lead; at times he followed. But they were a group of one.

The 3 of 19 ship wreck crew remained under Maritime law with the Captain absolute ruler. He never made a decision. The only reason the 3 survived was because their lowliest seaman had the skills to survive and to lead a few of them informally. After being rescued it was realized the Captain had been out of his mind the entire time on the island and remembered nothing about it.

You can’t lead if you don’t have the confidence of your followers, especially in a crisis survival mode.

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Folks, the Western Civilization of the British Empire is finally sinking. Our governments, Banksters and Politicians have historically given up leading us out of the collapse. The one exception appears to be Trump. But he can only do so much as we go through the chaos of living in between two very different worlds.

We must choose to loiter on the sinking deck or prepare our minds to lead our extended family as we traverse the abyss between those two worlds.

We can loiter or prepare ourselves. We cannot control the entire world, but we can control our little corner of it. We are the creators of our own future. We must be preparing our minds for moving into the new dimension. The governments are busy drawing new maps and gathering inventory to work with. They cannot prep our mindsets, only we can do that.

We need to stop focusing on the past and be preparing our personal futures.