Techies Are Prepping For An Apocalypse

The brightest bulbs see speed bumps on the horizon:

But the existence of a very different group of Preppers was laid bare by a political row in New Zealand this week.

Attracted by a remote First World country that has the potential to be self-sufficient and is on no one’s list of nuclear targets, the super-rich kings of Silicon Valley and Wall Street are buying up vast tracts of its land — in anticipation of the day when they may need to live there.

The controversy has revealed the extraordinary precautions being taken by the mega- rich to ensure that WTSHTF — a crude survivalist acronym for ‘when the **** hits the fan’ — they and their loved ones will be safe and comfortable…

Tellingly, the geeks of Silicon Valley appear to be most worried that it will be a struggle between rich and poor in a world economy turned upside down by new technology — with them as the main targets…

Naturally, property developers are eagerly capitalising on such concerns. The Survival Condo Project, a former underground nuclear missile silo in Kansas, has been converted into a 15- storey luxury apartment complex with a pool, gym, classroom and a miniature hospital.

It also has ground-level security cameras, electric fences, an on-site armoury, a sniper post and even a prison cell in which to put unwanted visitors. Instead of windows, giant LED screens show live pictures of the prairie above…

All this panic among the super-rich begs an obvious question: what do they know that the rest of us don’t?

Amusingly, they are smart enough to see what is coming, but cannot see their own hand in creating it.

If you have the money, creating a complete system to insure against what is coming would be a big amygdala assuager, especially as you add elements to address every possibility of threat. I like the TVs instead of windows, the gym, the fish tanks, and the underground vaults.

I thought the prison cell idea was interesting. I would not see any reason to hold prisoners myself, as they would just consume resources. So long as you have a sharp Katana it would seem there would be no reason. But perhaps a “Dexter room” for interrogations, complete with workbench to shrink wrap someone down on, main drain in the floor, garden hose to rinse down the waterproof walls, power tools, cutting instruments, and dental equipment might prove useful if you needed data out of a captured prisoner quick. Just shrink wrap them down, tourniquet an arm, fire up a chainsaw, and let them see some dried ketchup sprayed on the walls “from the last interogee,” and I would bet they would talk quick.

The Apocalypse is coming, and nothing we see is guaranteed to survive it. The rich know it, the politicians know it, and you should know it too. Do what you can to prepare, because it will probably be in a decade or so.

Spread r/K Theory, because when the Apocalypse comes we need to focus the mobs on the rabbits