Wasteland Archives
Collapse in a Nutshell
First the SHTF, and then it could be TEOTWAWKI WTF is with all the acronyms? I don’t know, I just work here. When it comes to the traditional “prepper” community there is a common habit of breaking down complex ideas into acronyms. Basically, SHTF stands for when the “Shit Hits The Fan”, meaning a disaster or catastrophe that causes upheaval and the breakdown of social order on a large scale. TEOTWAWKI hits a bit more
We’re All Just Frogs in Hot Water
The Life-cycle of a Collapse-Aware Frog We all know the boiling frog story. The idea is that a frog will allow itself to be boiled alive in a pot of water with a gradually increasing temperature. That story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to significant changes in their environment that occur gradually or to events that have become commonplace. No matter how severe the end result is