Demographics

I think the youngen's are

I think the youngen's are too busy playing HALO rather than preparing for hell on earth.

Maybe I'm a bit harsh, but I suspect that the Gen X, Gen Y and the playstation generations have in the main not experienced the relative tough times of WWII and the immediate post war period, nor have they had much interaction with those who lived through the Great Depression or earlier, when life WAS hard. THeir whole experince has been living in a world where the infrastructure of civilisation has been largely and continuously intact, and where affluence and the ready availability of consumer commodities has rarely been interrupted. I do understand, that some in the latter generations have experienced grinding poverty, for various reasons, but that grinding poverty may be in a general environment of boom time affluence.


I think the older monkeys, though not paranoid about the prospects of good economic times disappearing, are reasonably realistic in recognising, that civilisations and the economies that support them go through cycles of boom and bust....it is the wise man and woman, who prepares for the worst, but lives for the best.


This site performs a valuable service in perhaps exposing the casual browsers to knowledge as to the risks and hazards of being unprepared for whatever disaster may potentially befall them, and offer informnation, advice, support and encouragement if they actually want to do something about it. We as a community can not do much more than that.

 

I guess when I was in my late 20's and 30's I would not be spending more than a cursory amount of time checking this site out if it existed back then. At that age you have an attitude of invincibiltiy and that you will handle whatever comes along. Maturity may not give you wisdom, but it does give you a better realization of how frail the human existence is.

 

Isn't that the truth. Now that I'm creeping up on 50, I'm thinking maybe that isn't as old as I once thought.

 

Hey I'm doing my best to try and represent for the tail end of Gen X.

 

I am in the over 60 part of the over 50 group.

However, I sort of act as the anchor for those caching at my place and for whom it is the bugout destination (most are within about 30 mles). This includes 2 of my kids (with spouses...or is it spice?), one grandkid (also with spouse) 2 bros-in-law (1 with spouse) and 4 local friends. They range in age from 23 to mid 40s.

 

I find myself looking at 70 the same way...

 

I myself being in the over 50 crowd, in fact over 60 would still rather remain a fighter right up until the very end then just sit and wait to die. I think being a survivor also says you have always been a fighter and not the ones trying to not be noticed . I have ran into a few of the arm chair Rambo's here, but not as bad as a couple of other places. I think to them survival is but another game. We, as the older , wiser and still kicking group hopefully will never need our preps other then a blizzard, flood etc but do really believe that the younger people will most certainly need them.

 

It isn't surprising to see the "over 50" group as the largest group. Being in our 60, we have more "Life Experiences" behind us and have seen how "things can go wrong" more than other groups. For most of us over 60 here in the US have lived long enough to see the progressive deterioration of our country and culture and it worries and upsets us. We have seen our families and our friend's families go through the bad times more than have younger people. It's just a part of the aging process.

Most of us on the older side tend to be a little more realistic about life and our expectations of both the government and other people. We also tend to be more realistic in our perspective of ourselves and our abilities an inabilities.

 

we are also the last group with out the need for imediate gratification... we will wait paitently and gather what we need all a long and not try to do it in one fell swoop...

 

eh, to play devil's advocate here.. It's the 50 somethings that raised the 30 somethings.. Says something about thier parental technique?

just sayin..ccc..