"They are certainly not reflective of those colourful individuals seen in scripted and heavily edited American reality TV." "Australian survivalists are not Christian fundamentalists, right-wing nationalists, racist extremists or part of a contemporary militia movement," he says. It doesn't help that we've lost a lot of the visual cues that we're ready for disaster: while cities were once littered with bomb shelters and nuclear bunkers, in a digital world, our "readiness" is largely invisible.Īs Dr Lee Stickells from the University of Sydney writes, "in the context of global climate change, ongoing fiscal crises and pandemics, the survival retreat starts to seem like an eccentric but understandable reaction."ĭr Simon Henry, whose PhD investigated Australian preppers, says the subculture is a broad church. When fear drives the clicks that keep cash-starved newsrooms ticking over, anxiety is virtually built into journalism's business model. "Preppers' outlooks reflect a bombardment of reporting around disasters on a daily basis … so we should pay attention to how speculation around disasters has become part of everyday life in the early 21st century", he says. Japanese companies are marketing home nuclear shelters to the general public.
And yes, preppers have more acronyms than the public service. If you're a minimalist prepper who's just read Marie Kondo, you might get by with just the BOB (" Bug Out Bag", 72 hours worth of supplies) and the INCH (" I'm Never Coming Home" bag).
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Preppers make themselves easy targets, between the YouTube tutorials on how to make a crossbow from a ski, and the graded sequence of Mary-Poppins-meets-Bear-Grylls survival bags.
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This is despite "preppers" being widely met with ridicule or fear (as the New York Times writes, prepping reality TV shows "are full of people lovingly cradling their weaponry, which in many cases is frighteningly extensive"). "Doomsday prepping", or "survivalism", is on the rise in Australia, as it is in the US and UK. I'm not convinced it's a world I want to live in. In my Gollum-crouch, I grab the floss and try to imagine a world where that could be "my precious". "Gum health and heart disease are linked," he says. An avalanche of toothbrushes and dental floss rains down on me.Ĭrouched on the caravan floor, gathering up the toothbrushes like an apocalyptic "pick-up sticks", I stare up at the prepper, waiting for an explanation. There's two months of tinned food and an axe. I lift the bed to stash my bags underneath. Making myself at home in the catastrophe-ready caravan.
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