These Photos of Prepper Bags Hold a Mirror to Society - Medium (Archive link)
Honestly, the photos are pretty good, and interesting. The writing, on the other hand, just silly.
Why get so irritated by how other people spend their time and money? Perhaps you just don't understand or care how the "prepared" people think?
The smugness in the article is ripe and thick.
The author is living in San Francisco and glosses over the usefulness of an earthquake kit...
Don't worry about giving them clicks. The link is an archive.
Not content with merely imagining disaster, preppers lurch toward it. They play out fearful futures, buying survival goods and stockpiling basements with supplies. They have bought in — spiritually, financially, and politically — to the worst worst-case scenarios. Motivated by an array of politics and theories, preppers do seem to be united, at least, by anxiety and alarm, and Allison Stewart’s Bug Out Bag puts this national portrait of fear on display.
A “national portrait” might seem a grand claim for a collection of bird’s-eye photos of arranged items. But Stewart’s simple methods shouldn’t fool you into thinking that these images convey something simple. Sure, they function at a literal level (wittingly mimicking the common, fetishistic “What’s In Your Bag” profiles of industry photography magazines), but more crucially, these photos serve as a window upon the caprice of American culture. Bug Out Bag shows us both clues to misinformation circulating the U.S. as well as a booming industry. The issue, for me at least, is not really whether preppers’ fears are warranted but rather what it means for doomsday delusions to be increasingly part of the American psyche.
Honestly, the photos are pretty good, and interesting. The writing, on the other hand, just silly.
Why get so irritated by how other people spend their time and money? Perhaps you just don't understand or care how the "prepared" people think?
The smugness in the article is ripe and thick.
The author is living in San Francisco and glosses over the usefulness of an earthquake kit...
Don't worry about giving them clicks. The link is an archive.