Vivos was offering more than just the provision of ready-made bunkers, turnkey apocalypse solutions. It was offering a vision of a post-state future. When you bought into such a scheme, you tapped into a fever dream from the depths of the libertarian lizard-brain: a group of well-off and ideologically like-minded individuals sharing an autonomous space, heavily fortified against outsiders—the poor, the hungry, the desperate, the unprepared—and awaiting its moment to rebuild civilization from the ground up. What was being offered, as such, was a state stripped down to its bear right-wing
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