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Could You Do It?
Thrifty Words 100 #39: Self Sufficiency & 50 Words Theme Challenge #60: Self Sufficiency
My dad always told me, “Independence is getting what you want when nobody else is around.”
Self-sufficiency IS independence. It’s right there at the beginning of the hyphenation.
Self-sufficiency.
Could you do it? Could you be self-sufficient? Could you survive the end of the world as we know it? Could you raise your meat with love, then kill, then process, then eat it?
Could you?
Self-sufficiency can mean many things to many people. The image that is first and foremost in my mind is apocalyptic self-sufficiency.
In the United States, there’s a movement called Survivalism. The name was coined in the 1980s. Survivalism is all about being prepared for the end of the world.
The movement’s members differ in personality wildly. Some are paramilitary enthusiasts who love their weapons. Some are religious fanatics (even a cult or two). Some are convinced some virus or other will start…
