Comment by yellowapple
2 days ago
Calling that collapse page “nerd-prepper material” is a bit reductionist; there's very clearly a solarpunk/left-libertarian bent to it (even ignoring the broader context of the rest of the site) that contrasts pretty starkly with the typical prepper “my house is my castle” right-propertarian mentality. The prepper seeks to survive and rule over the ashes, assuming the throne of the same legacy socioeconomic systems that produced the collapse in the first place; the solarpunk seeks to survive and build something better than ashes, learning from the mistakes of those legacy socioeconomic systems and hopefully preventing history from repeating itself. The prepper centers on the individual, or maybe one's family; the solarpunk centers on the community.
Being a prepper doesn't require any specific political alignment, just the strongly held belief in an impending, civilizational catastrophe and the requisite preparation for it. The type of preparation is influenced by one's politicial compass, such as buying heirloom seeds and land for your polycule commune, or buying ammo and night-vision gear for your tacticool, boobytrapped redoubt, but all are rooted in the same fundamental belief: that multiple levels of government can/will fail in one's lifetime. Not mere service interruption, but permanent, catastrophic failure that kills government dead, with no replacement.