Prepping is rooted in the apprehension of an all-consuming decadence. Society has become weak, excessively reliant on systems of distribution and control whose very vastness and complexity renders them hopelessly vulnerable. The city is the source of this decadence. Preppers don’t trust cities, or those who make their lives in them. All those people living at a remove from the production of food, completely reliant on those vast and fragile systems, of distribution and waste collection, those heaving masses of humanity, incorrigibly plural and various. And what this suspicion amounts to is a
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