Tweaker Sunset
Discussing Post-Apocalisp Living with Bob, Shayne and Lynn: 8/25/2022
Remember reading Lucifer’s Hammer, that after the grid went down coffee and whiskey were valuable commodities and when a lawyer or manger came to town he was sent off into the wild to die and the men with trades were welcomed into the community?”
-Bob
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Last night Shayne and Bob and their wives, who swore to go wherever their men decided to move, were discussing relocating out of the way of the massive suburban blight hitting the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains, as the well-dressed turds of humanity that have ruined every city by importing as many slackers and savages as possible to replace men like us, now move to the last places they and their ilk have not yet spoiled.
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This afternoon, Lynn and I spoke of the massive California homeless camp I saw under the freeway between Emeryville and Oakland and she spoke stridently, in her moon song of a voice, about the constant whining of traditional, conservative and right wing men of the new generations between 18 and 40, who constantly pine for a better world, for a return to the lie of white picket fence universal prosperity 1950s America, yet generally decline to increase their survivability, confidence, social skills, combat readiness or adaptability, in favor of bitching like women about how things SHOULD be in some bizarre fantasy world where power somehow did not reside in the hands of the cryptic few.
She had a great idea for them:
“Homeless tweaker camps are a perfect place for Office Joe to learn useful survival skills, and experience the danger necessary for adaptation. There is minimal risk of law enforcement interference in a homeless camp, other than an arrest and released without charges, especially if you are drug free. Office Joe would make friends among the tweakers. Imagine if he went out to lunch with his office mates and bumped into a tweaker and said, “Hey man” like he can speak tweaker and navigate their world—his office mates would be blown away. I think that tweakers have skill sets that make them like Indians of the modern world. If you want to man up, why not stop bitching and go spend some time in Indian Country?”