The other night I was watchig one of these reality shows, the ones that show our hero cast way in a remote area. He always comes up with something to eat or to help wth his survival.
It got me to thinking, I imagine that many followers imagined themselvs in his place and considered themselves in a 'SHTF' situation as existing that way.
Unfortunately that can exist for only a short while, when one becomes a hunter / gatherer. The game quickly is dissipated or eaten, leaves the country, or you have gathered most of the edible materiel in the region and you have to move on.
This idylic life soon becomes a struggle to just exist.
When my partner and I decided that we would live off of the land basically while looking for Mayan ruins in the Yucatan / Quintana Roo jungles of the Yuctan, we started out with perhaps 3 -4 hrs to collect enough to eat, then gradually it was exteded until it was taking most of the daylight hours leaving little time for exploring.
When I say basically, we carried rice, tea, spices, plus a little treat called la abuela, which consisted of a form of sweets that contained mostly sugar in the crude form. We pampered ourself. The rest we obtaind with our machetes and .22 pistols.
This mde me reasses the lives of our native Americans, and quickly came to an understanding of why they were at war with each other, it was simply a war of survival and they needed vast lands in which to move around in just to eat. They often starved during the winters.
Course there was the usual need for captive females to increase the tribal male stock, but in general the land limited the ability to increase.
So I came to the conclusion that lifewasnt a bed of roses for them, but a life of few surpluses or comforts. That the reality shows wern't really reality shows after all.
We each carried 500 rnds of .22 super X hollwow point ammunition for trading purposes, .22's were worth their weight in Gold in the remote areas, money meant nothing.
