Interesting POV: Why the media HATE survivalists.

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From K.S.

     One might ask; since most survivalists have left the cities
and so are no danger to city folk, why the media blitz against
urban dropouts?  Also, if city folk are right in believing they
live in the best of all possible worlds, why don't they just ignore
us?  Besides, it's unkind to make fun of us poor crazies afflicted
with various forms of anxiety neuroses.
     It simply makes no sense for the media to be obsessed with
urban dropouts unless the mere fact that we have withdrawn is a
threat to the cities. But, you see, we are a threat to the
cities.  Brain drain.  White flight.  Eroding urban tax bases. 
Plain, gut-level jealousy towards those able to leave their
respective Disneylands for dummies for cleaner, safer areas. I
could go on and on.
     A big factor in painting us as vicious lunatics is to use us
as an example of the kind of people who refuse to share the fate of
those who stay behind.  We are the rats leaving the sinking ship. 
We are the non-supportive.  We can't stand the gaff.  We lack
compassion for the social dependents we abandon on the doorsteps of
those with a stake in the cities.  All this is simply because we
refuse to be the victims of demanding parasites, muggers, burglars,
etc.  Every one who leaves makes city folk more heavily taxed and
more likely to be criminally assaulted, due to the decrease in
potential victims.
     So the fear is not with us; it is with them.  The hostility is
not from us; it is from them.  So it stands to reason that if they
can convince others that we are degenerate goofs, less city folk
will be inclined to imitate us.

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