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I'd love to live in a totally secure physical environment
safe from home invaders, zombies & ebola
but, alas, anyone sufficiently desirous of doing me harm
can invade my castle.

therefore I rely on luck & social cohesion

OK kafka

no, really
absolute physical security is now impossible
(can always be bunker bombed or biochemicaled)
so what does that leave but somehow accommodating threats?
which leads to everybody negotiating power

Well did you justread "the burrow" or not?

if i built a fort it would be better than your fort

get one step ahead of them and give yourself ebola first

Freud wrote:Civilized man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security

and become uncivilised because of it..

hmmm, true
how fucked must it be being a survivalist,
infecting your family & neighbours with fear,
practising killing desperate people,
and thinking you'll survive every calamity if only you have enough food, water & guns stored

that was the message of "The Road" imo:
only the unfortunate will survive the nuclear holocaust
just as only savages will survive the total breakdown of society.

Whilst I'd rather be a savage than never being alive,
and would do whatever necessary to protect myself & family from competing savages,
I'd like to think I'd take every opportunity to enhance the survival chances of good people.

wobbles wrote:Well did you justread "the burrow" or not?

no
just thinking about villagers assailed by Arsehole