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By the writer of The Dark Secrets of Survival and the net course SHTF Survival Boot Camp.
“Balkanization is the fragmentation of a bigger area or state into smaller areas or states, which can be hostile or uncooperative with each other.” (Wikipedia)
Once more the phrase “Balkanization” turning into well-liked. Really, it has been usually referenced for a number of years, ever since folks understood that occasions that occurred within the Balkans may occur of their neighborhood too in some kind.
Often folks take into consideration that phrase within the phrases talked about above, fragmentation into smaller elements that aren’t essentially pleasant to one another.
And that fragmentation may are available many varieties that I described and talk about in numerous articles. Again then, largely folks didn’t imagine in it.
Hardly ever is it being mentioned from one different angle, which can also be crucial from a survival standpoint, and that’s one thing that we would name the duality of the system.
Duality of the system (within the Balkans)
Sure, we nonetheless have legal guidelines, programs, authorities, infrastructure, courts, and every thing else that you’ve there in a democratic and useful nation. However nothing works the best way that ought to work, and it by no means did because the warfare ended, for 30 years nearly.
Let’s say you might be residing within the Balkans, and for instance, your child will get killed by a drunk driver. It’s possible you’ll be certain he’ll keep out of jail if he has a relative in politics or sufficient cash to bribe the decide. You might be consuming worse meals in numerous instances, poisonous, or underneath the traditional requirements as a result of regular requirements aren’t present right here. The EU eliminates low cost and low-quality meals right here.
In case you are sick critically, you might be useless as a result of the medical system works solely on paper, and in case you are not wealthy you might be useless. Felony group members are infiltrated into the federal government and ruling events (and vice versa), and there’s no actual distinction between them.
In case you are a journalist who writes about it you’ll disappear. In case you are a typical man who talks too loud about it you’ll lose your job.
When you “plug” your self into the ruling occasion and obey, you may need a job with a wage simply massive sufficient to maintain you fed sufficient to not die, and to maintain you in fixed horror, questioning are you gonna lose even that poor job and depart your children hungry?
Now, that duality of the system signifies that the common system isn’t working for you, so there’s a “parallel” system to the present one the place you may “swim” and survive.
Which means you’ll have to change into a grasp of networking.
In all places, you’ll have a connection.
You have to have a person within the hospital who will allow you to both as a result of you’ll bribe him or you’ll owe him a favor so you will get issues carried out there in case your child will get sick. In any other case, for those who go together with common channels within the hospital, likelihood is much less good.
You will have a person who will promote you meals smuggled “with out tax” from Germany, so it’s higher high quality. You go and keep away from paying taxes to the state. (FFS, for all of your pretending, you truly hate the state and system.) You lower your expenses in foreign currency echange, or gold, and also you do non-public jobs on the verge and even on the opposite facet of the legislation as a result of this sort of legislation in this sort of nation you don’t take as a legislation.
You might be residing in a twin system, the place on one facet, you might be plugged into a standard and crooked system, and on the opposite facet, you might be residing and functioning in a parallel system, as a result of that’s the solely solution to reside right here.
Duality of the system-it is one other kind of Balkanization.
Now, for those who acknowledge any of the above “signs” in your society, effectively…welcome to the beginning of Balkanization.
The SHTF
I discussed usually that SHTF doesn’t essentially should imply one sudden and abrupt occasion after we are able to say, “OK, it’s SHTF.”
We’d already be in some type of SHTF, and a few spark may solely push us to a bigger scale (or extra severe) SHTF. My time and my expertise within the warfare gave me beneficial information and views on life, however equally to that, residing on this “twin system” for years and many years additionally gave me treasured information and expertise.
Folks will discover methods to get issues carried out IF they acknowledge what is going on round them.
Don’t look forward to instances of chaos. I’m certain some type of Balkanisation is there, or some type of want for a parallel system for you.
If you don’t agree with all the federal government choices and the most recent societal guidelines and adjustments (and I’m certain you wouldn’t be right here for those who agree with all that authorities push), then you shouldn’t elevate your voice all over the place because you may lose your job, or your online business might be canceled.
That’s not the best way to withstand now.
How to withstand
Resist by networking and constructing this twin system. Issues will be carried out in case you have a community and folks.
And sure, fuck the federal government!
This type of Balkanization is one thing that’s slowly turning into seen in elements of the world and locations the place I might have sworn (a few years in the past) it was unattainable.
There’s much less and fewer sense for what folks want and an increasing number of push for what some political possibility or energy constructions need. Even when nearly all of people are towards that, it’s nonetheless being pushed by an increasing number of violent or repressive strategies.
The federal government will push extra issues in your face, issues that you don’t like. The agenda shall be an increasing number of towards your core values, and you’ll really feel an increasing number of like a stranger in your individual land, the place “previous values” are misplaced.
You should have the selection both to obey or to be “canceled,” in every single place from getting your account in social media networks shut right down to the purpose of taking your children from you as a result of you’re a “terrorist.”
Balkanization doesn’t like free thinkers, so don’t seem like a free thinker who fights the fights that can not be received. Select your fights and use a twin system.
The twin system is coming if it’s not already there.
In consequence, we’re going to see Balkanization – sure, within the phrases described within the first sentences of this text. However earlier than that fragmentation and hostility, we’re going to see a type of Balkanization consisting of individuals residing on this “twin system.”
And keep in mind – probably the most correct prepper definitions is “the one that is all the time a few steps forward of others,” so take into consideration this earlier than many of the different folks and put together. Arrange your networks now.
What are your ideas?
Do you foresee this sort of Balkanization occurring the place you might be? Are you already seeing proof of a twin system the place you reside? Do you’ve gotten some examples you may share of such a system?
Let’s talk about it within the feedback.
About Selco:
Selco survived the Balkan warfare of the 90s in a metropolis underneath siege, with out electrical energy, operating water, or meals distribution.
In his on-line works, he offers an inside view of the fact of survival underneath the harshest situations. He evaluations what works and what doesn’t, tells you the laborious classes he discovered, and shares how he prepares right this moment.
He by no means stopped studying about survival and preparedness because the warfare. No matter what occurs, likelihood is you’ll by no means expertise excessive conditions as Selco did. However you’ve gotten the prospect to study from him and the way he confronted dying for months.
Actual survival isn’t romantic or idealistic. It’s brutal, laborious, and unfair. Let Selco take you into that world.
