The Professor
Plinker
I don't want to take away from your point but there are also those who believe it's inevitable and they'd like to share their skills with like-minded folks and/or do what they can to stave off the disaster. Some people even believe we can avoid it entirely through education.
There are many who just want to show off but there are also many who want to help. Be careful you don't mix them.
Hence, my use of the word "some" in the sentence. However, I might further suggest that even those who want to teach by showing off their preps are not only naieve, but a bit myopic.
If my entire neighborhood knows I have five years' worth of food stored, exactly whose house is going to have the front door pounded in by hungry mothers and fathers demanding I share with them?
In other words, I question the wisdom of sharing your preps with the world, for education's (or any other) sake. It's the same reason I don't put gun company logos on the back of my trucks. All it takes is for the wrong person to see them and follow me home (I'll be honest, I'm not a super-spy, highly trained in countersurveillance. . .I live in the outskirts of a city and it would probably be quite easy for someone to surreptitiously trail me).
Once they find out where I live, all it takes is to wait for me to leave. They may not get all my guns, but I still don't want my house burgled. And, to return to the issue of this thread, that also goes for not broadcasting it to my neighborhood that I've got enough food for me and mine to last several months. That's because around about day 3, when their shelves are empty they'll suddenly remember that, hey. . .that Professor guy has food. . .HE HAS A CIVIC DUTY TO SHARE IT WITH ME!!!!!
Then, jackwagon and his dozen or so friends show up at my front door asking (then demanding) their fair share.
Yep . .ain't gonna happen.
The Professor