Daily Mail: Robert Bast is a Prize Twit – My Response
So here are the first few paragraphs of one of the many, many articles that have taken the cheap and easy shot, laughing at survivalists who were motivated by the Mayan end date. With my responses in RED
Without wishing to sound too smug, I think we can predict the menu for the next five years at Robert Bast’s ‘Survive2012’ Australian hideaway: tinned beans, tinned beans, bottled water and more tinned beans.
Not at all. 80% of our survival supplies are foodstuffs and water that are part of out everyday diet. The pasta, rice, tinned beans/tomatoes/fruit, ketchup, salt, crackers and so on will be rotated. I’m not so poor that I will solely feed my family our emergency food.
The same goes for thousands of others who had expected to be the only remnants of today’s scheduled termination of the human race. Like Bast, a well-known ‘survivalist’ and online prophet of doom, they have been leaving nothing to chance.
Few survivalists believe in the termination of the human race, but merely that life could get so difficult that having prepared would make it a bit easier.
But it’s always the same with this blasted Armageddon business. You take all the right precautions, you abandon your job and go to an enormous amount of trouble to set yourself apart from the common herd in the confident expectation that you are a Chosen One.
Why would I abandon my job? I was working the day before and the day after Dec 21. The amount of trouble spent on my prepping is less than most people’s hobbies and idle entertainment. I may have been the first to make a song and dance about a 2012 doomsday, but Chosen One is a bit rich and a lot wrong.
And then, well, you end up looking a prize twit the following morning. Those blasé neighbours who never bothered to stockpile so much as a box of matches give you a patronising wave as they set off to work as usual.
Quite true – just like this smug reporter. They don’t get it, and I don’t mind. I do find it amusing that Robert Hardman’s greatest claim to fame is creating loving portraits of his Royal Family. Not exactly hard. Not hard like trusting your own instincts at risk of ridicule, and not hard like playing rugby alongside All Blacks (oops, that was under my real name…)Not exactly a hard man?
What’s more, you’ve got a garage full of baked beans, bottled water, spare batteries and duct tape.
Yep, and if the Mayan’s got the date a little bit wrong, or any one of the disasters that can occur regardless of any 2012 predictions, I guess I’ll have a full tummy and be watching Charles at 60: The Passionate Prince on my portable DVD player while the reporter from the documentary is starving and scared in the dark. Not that I wish anything like that to happen
Oh well. You can usually console yourself with the thought there’ll be another catalclysmic prophesy along soon. Better have another flick through the works of Nostradamus . . .
You might want to recalibrate your spell checker… catalclysmic is not a word 😉 There are no other predictions like that of the Maya, so you won’t need to mention me in your esteemed journal again.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251430/The-end-world-Armageddons-delayed-notice.html#ixzz2Gj1RQv25
It is amazing that someone would write such things, even though they have no knowledge or expertise on the topic. And that they would allude to aspects of myself without even asking me any questions. OK, it is an opinion piece, but his talent is nothing to do with being accurate, but rather all to do with telling the masses what they want to hear. Yay for that skill and contribution to society. Keep them dumb and happy – if I didn’t know any better I’d accuse Hardman of being a NWO foot soldier.
