It is with great pleasure I welcome Camping Survival to the elite group of sponsors on Survivalpunk. I have turned down many companies in the past. When I was contacted by Camping Survival I knew I wanted them on board. Camping Survival is really a prepper mega store. They have everything you could possibly want. They also have some pretty great pricing. I was clicking around to see what they have and for what price. For example they have Fish Mox – Amoxicillin 250mg (100 Count) for $16.41 with free shipping. Fist antibiotics are something I need to add to my preps. This is a cheaper an easier option than the importation of antibiotics from India. Yeah you can do that. It cost about 5 times as much though.
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Camping Survival
My first experience with Camping survival was a great one. I won a t shirt. How awesome is that. Years ago before I started Survivalpunk I was a Camping Survival Facebook Fan. They were doing a photo caption contest and me being so witty I easily won. I wish I could find that winning comment. I feel like it was about old planet of the Apes. Who knows. I just know I like wining shirts.
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Today’s post is going to be a weird one. Interesting for sure though. I felt I had to write it though. I was bombarded with the idea constantly over the past few days. It seems caste systems were being brought up on everything. I was listening to a podcast on history that mentioned them several times. I then watched the movie Divergent. It was not terrible. I pretty much watch anything set in a dystopian future. In that movie society was strictly divided into a caste system. I got me thinking about how historically mankind has always implemented them. Still in parts of the world caste systems are still enforced. Are we here in America and other first world countries truly free? Are we not able to be anything we want? What about during any kind of disaster? A full on collapse? During a long term collapse would we fall back into our old patterns? So many questions posed today. This will not be a lecture by me but an open conversation with you. Please comment today and share your thoughts. Today is a mental exercise for us all. So let’s get into it.
The Peasant’s Revolt of 1380
Historically
So I started listening to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. It’s a podcast on interesting parts of history. It might be the best podcast I’ve ever listened to. Which seems odd to say about a history podcast. I have always liked history though. Dean is also a master of his craft. So I started with a podcast during the Lutheran Reformation period. It told the story about a town that was taken over by a lunatic religious cult. Many times the caste system was talked about. The peasants that were treated worse than animals are today. How the aristocracy calculated how much to abuse them without causing a peasants uprising. There was a level at which they would take the crap being dealt out to them. Like people being wholesale burned on the steak for questioning things. Did you know there was a permitted amount of torture? Legally they could rip out your tendons and tear off your flesh for an hour. The peasants thought the 1 hour limit was fair.
The system was still enforced even when it made no sense. If a blue blood was desolate and a cloth merchant made a fortune the merchant was still of a lower class. A farmer born and a farmer till death. No little Timmy you can not be anything you want. Most didn’t question it though. There is a precarious balance of not having things too bad to keep being a cog in the wheel.
Caste System
Now
Finally though we evolved past that and became enlightened. Right? No longer are we chained into the caste system. I’m not really so sure. I don’t want to go down conspiracy lane here. Not far at least. We obviously do not have a strict caste system any more. There is quite a bit of freedom. We have a good deal of wiggle room. For many where you are born is where you will stay. If you look to the big corporations and government you almost have to be born into them. How many Bush’s are in government? Are the elite bankers and corporations not unlike the aristocracy? They dictate the laws that only apply to others. While I’m all about a free market and making money. Make all the money you can and need. It’s the shady back door political dealing that affect me I have issue with.
With the public school system making people drones only outliers really rise to the top. Of some of them I think there might be help from the elite. Not to get into conspiracy but there are very influential very rich folks. The others that make it big though I contribute to the internet. The internet has changed mankind. It might be the one thing to break the caste system.
Caste System
The Future
In a collapse what would happen. I think a caste system would emerge in a long term collapse. Either organically or by force. Farmers would begin farming. Merchants would begin selling. Soldiers would fight and unfortunately bureaucrats would show up. If organic it might be beneficial. As an extension of the free market. The need for things to be made, grown, protected etc will cause the formations. The need for clothing will make a clothing merchant wealthy and they will want their children to continue. Farmers will need children to help and pass on to. Mankind will do what is necessary to survive. We always have and always will.
If not Organic it could be an ugly time. It forced upon us by a tyrannical government. Sold to us by the greater need. Sold to a divided world rithe with class warfare. Sold to us when people are starving. Sold to us for our protection. How many would beg for it. How many would demand that we need farmers? We would slip back into the same thinking of those peasants. It’s not that bad at least. We have food at least. We have a purpose in life. We only get tortured an hour.
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Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I decided to write this in the morning as opposed to my usual before bed. I wanted to squeeze in one more night of my experiment. I decided to use my Trek Light Hammock as a bed a few weeks ago. It was something I had long thought about.
Recently two things lined up that made me decide to do so. First my I finally had to get rid of my 10 year old bed. I was sleeping on the futon in the living room. Which is on it’s death bed too. Next while listening to Tim Ferriss’ podcast Kelly Starrett was talking about hammocks as a bed. He was saying to move away from hard beds and get one as soft as possible. His recommendation was to use a hammock as a bed. That’s all I needed. If Kelly was saying it would be the best for health and mobility then I was in. What did I learn in my experiment? Let’s find out!
Maybe I’m a bit late to the table with this review. Conflicted the game has swept through the survival community. For good reason too. I have tested the game out a few times now. I needed to see what all this hype is about. Why is every podcast about survival playing it? Myself included stay tuned. Unless you’ve been living under a rock I’m sure you have heard of this game. Today I’ll share my thoughts on it. What do I like about conflicted the game. What I don’t like about it and how I think it should be used.
Yesterday I interviewed Jimmy Moore on his new book Keto Clarity. Today I’ll publish my review of Keto Clarity. If this is your first time hearing the word Keto I’ll explain it. I’ll convince you why you want to check out Keto Clarity. Even if you are not overweight. There is a lot more to the ketogenic diet than weight loss. That’s icing on the low carb cake.
KETO Acronym
Ketogenic Diet
What is this keto diet anyway. Well I’ve talked about is any times before on my journey of weight loss. Our good friends over at Wikipedia define it as such.
Ketosis/kɨˈtoʊsɨs/ is a metabolic state where most of the body’s energy supply comes from ketone bodies in the blood, in contrast to a state of glycolysis where blood glucose provides most of the energy. It is characterised by serum concentrations of ketone bodies over 0.5 millimolar with low and stable levels of insulin and blood glucose.[1][2]
So it’s an alternative fuel source for the body. Switching from glucose to ketone bodies. Switching to high-octane in my opinion. How do you get into a ketogenic state? In easy terms you eat low carbs, moderate protein and high fat. Notice I didn’t give specific numbers there. For each person those numbers will be different. In Keto Clarity Jimmy covers the many ways to measure ketone levels. He goes over which ones work best and which are not that good. You can wing it but it’s best to test.
Keto Clarity
With Keto Clarity Jimmy knocked out a tome of wisdom. He gathered the best and brightest in the low carb field. He researched all the science. He himself conducted a year-long experiment with thousands of data points. I do not have the patience to weigh myself everyday. Measure blood glucose and ketone levels more than once a day. His N=1 experiment was detailed and impressive. In Keto Clarity he not only covers the basics of getting into ketosis but some great tips of optimizing it. He digs deep into the science on why it works and is better for humans. How does a keto diet affect different illness like epilepsy and schizophrenia?
If you geek on the science behind why things work you will love this. If you just like to know what to do you will love this book. With shopping lists and sample meal plans you can hit the ground running. I like that the chapters are short and to the point. The end of every chapter is a bullet point list of that chapter. That is the best thing I’ve seen in a book. If you’re not familiar with Jimmy’s work you don’t know how entertaining he is. That comedy comes out in this book well. I learn best when It has some humor in it. I could never learn from Ben Stein. So go check out Keto Clarity and give it a try.
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