Nice read! I agree that not only can you save you, you SHOULD save yourself. If more people were self-sufficient, reliable, and in general didn't rely so much on others or a system to float them we would have a safer more stable society at large. Each individual with the necessary precautions in mind and practical plan to execute on system failure makes for a painless transition to a new system and prevention of long term damage. I believe this was the idea when the U.S was first founded. Government won't get in our way but you are on your own. This is how it should be. Individuals makes up groups. Prepared individuals = Prepared groups.

Labels, ideology, boxes of thought, they are both useful for presenting a group of cohesive ideas but they are in nature limited. They simply cannot account for all the dynamics of life in practice. I personally like the ideas of libertarianism but am hesistant to say "I am a libertarian" cause bigger boxes or bigger labels get placed on top of that "So you're also conservative or republican" which begets more negative labels and so on. I feel we get so caught up in being this and that we forget that ideology is a tool not something that needs an army to rise up to protect it's sacred grounds from invading ideologies. This is how many wars are started and valuable minds are lost. Capital gets destroyed and at the end very few have really benefited from the aftermath. Dogma is very troublesome and I believe in order for society to reach the next level of advancement we need to let it go. Fanatic adherence to ideas to the point of suicidal murder will regress progress more than progress can be made and kept.