The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

We need to get out of this fetid pusshole and get to some higher ground.

The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

I feel like an hors deurve waiting to happen.

I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.

It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.