In the current era, I feel like my understanding of the connotations of "Survivalist" are more positive than "Prepper". A survivalist is often shown as someone like Bear Grills, being more about wilderness survival, shelter building, hunting, finding water, starting fires etc. Maybe the meaning of the term has shifted?
In the current era, I feel like my understanding of the connotations of "Survivalist" are more positive than "Prepper". A survivalist is often shown as someone like Bear Grills, being more about wilderness survival, shelter building, hunting, finding water, starting fires etc. Maybe the meaning of the term has shifted?
I have also seen a resurgence on queer/left social media mocking the individualist preppers as gun nuts just happy to shoot "looters" as a dogwhistle for minorities, playing up their lack of preparedness to actually be a subsistence farmer. I saw a post today advocating for people to start growing potatoes in backyards to mitigate against tarrif based food price increases.
I feel there is an overlap in zombie based media with the prepper mindset, where having lots of guns and getting to shoot "zombies" is seen as almost desirable. In the 2000's there were a bunch of people who were preparing for zombies because it was fun, and prepared you for anything else also.
In the current era, I feel like my understanding of the connotations of "Survivalist" are more positive than "Prepper". A survivalist is often shown as someone like Bear Grills, being more about wilderness survival, shelter building, hunting, finding water, starting fires etc. Maybe the meaning of the term has shifted?
I have also seen a resurgence on queer/left social media mocking the individualist preppers as gun nuts just happy to shoot "looters" as a dogwhistle for minorities, playing up their lack of preparedness to actually be a subsistence farmer. I saw a post today advocating for people to start growing potatoes in backyards to mitigate against tarrif based food price increases.
I feel there is an overlap in zombie based media with the prepper mindset, where having lots of guns and getting to shoot "zombies" is seen as almost desirable. In the 2000's there were a bunch of people who were preparing for zombies because it was fun, and prepared you for anything else also.