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Reply to: Cultivating a survival mindset: the Stockdale Paradox, Stoicism, and the importance of partying on Posted August 8, 2021

Hi Josh and great article.  Not too many people talk about the mental health quotient.   By co-incidence I’m working on something going into post-apocalyptic mindsets and behavior.  And it takes a journey into the dark side examining the psychology of violence in the post-apocalyptic world.  I ask questions such as “What if family members learn they hate each other?”  What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.  But you take everything down into the bunker with you.   People might talk too much.  I examine mental health.  And scenarios where people might go insane.  How to deal with the mentally ill in this situation, etc.  I believe a sense of community is necessary like 3 or 4 families living near each other or in adjoining pods for mental health support.  Or you could end up with “The Shining.”  People standing above ground won’t hear the muffled screams and shots.  If nobody hears it, and nobody finds it, did it really happen?  Kind of like the tree falling in the forest thing.  I never liked the single bunker model.   And I like coal for heat. I also examine the theory that psychopaths would naturally assume positions of leadership.  And right now my analysis says no large model or “billionaire bunker” or government facility will make it past 2 years in another TOBA eruption.  I’m not done looking at them, but so far every one of them strikes out.   For one example, I think those are C-4’s or Cat 400’s in Larry Hall’s Condo Survival Project in Kansas.  He’s telling people they can survive 5 years in that place.  That’s not even remotely true.   I think just one CAT running at 3/4 load he’d burn about 80,000 gallons of diesel a year with that power plant.  And the wind turbines outside stop turning at minus 22F.  His grow operation is highly unprofessional.  And he plans on farming Tilapia in underground tanks.  Which is nuts.  Only one place in Kansas sells the fingerlings to my knowledge.  Seasonally.  Farming Tilapia is dirty and difficult.  Doctors now say farmed Tilapia is bad for you and especially bad for heart patients.  My conclusion is that everybody in these luxurious tombs dies.  NORAD?  Just one of their big CATS at 1/4 load burns 270,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year.  They have six of those monsters.  And they die for the same reason.  Energy.  At least VIVOS Indiana is more credible.  They say one year of survival.  But they say they have Geo-thermal energy!  What?  In Indiana?  I sent them an e-mail to ask how they did that.

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Reply to: Cultivating a survival mindset: the Stockdale Paradox, Stoicism, and the importance of partying on Posted August 8, 2021

Hi Josh and great article.  Not too many people talk about the mental health quotient.   By co-incidence I’m working on something going into post-apocalyptic mindsets and behavior.  And it takes a journey into the dark side examining the psychology of violence in the post-apocalyptic world.  I ask questions such as “What if family members learn they hate each other?”  What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.  But you take everything down into the bunker with you.   People might talk too much.  I examine mental health.  And scenarios where people might go insane.  How to deal with the mentally ill in this situation, etc.  I believe a sense of community is necessary like 3 or 4 families living near each other or in adjoining pods for mental health support.  Or you could end up with “The Shining.”  People standing above ground won’t hear the muffled screams and shots.  If nobody hears it, and nobody finds it, did it really happen?  Kind of like the tree falling in the forest thing.  I never liked the single bunker model.   And I like coal for heat. I also examine the theory that psychopaths would naturally assume positions of leadership.  And right now my analysis says no large model or “billionaire bunker” or government facility will make it past 2 years in another TOBA eruption.  I’m not done looking at them, but so far every one of them strikes out.   For one example, I think those are C-4’s or Cat 400’s in Larry Hall’s Condo Survival Project in Kansas.  He’s telling people they can survive 5 years in that place.  That’s not even remotely true.   I think just one CAT running at 3/4 load he’d burn about 80,000 gallons of diesel a year with that power plant.  And the wind turbines outside stop turning at minus 22F.  His grow operation is highly unprofessional.  And he plans on farming Tilapia in underground tanks.  Which is nuts.  Only one place in Kansas sells the fingerlings to my knowledge.  Seasonally.  Farming Tilapia is dirty and difficult.  Doctors now say farmed Tilapia is bad for you and especially bad for heart patients.  My conclusion is that everybody in these luxurious tombs dies.  NORAD?  Just one of their big CATS at 1/4 load burns 270,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year.  They have six of those monsters.  And they die for the same reason.  Energy.  At least VIVOS Indiana is more credible.  They say one year of survival.  But they say they have Geo-thermal energy!  What?  In Indiana?  I sent them an e-mail to ask how they did that.