"Elite" survivalism

I have written before about the corrupting spiritual vortex that is prepper survivalism; where low-level people (such as you and me) engage in preparing to escape survive catastrophes, to become the nucleus and leadership of future human civilization... or something. 

I have also discussed "elite" survivalism, of the super-preppers and the mega-rich multi-billionaire class - who openly discuss vastly expensive schemes of many kinds to ensure their own survival of some kind of civilizational or planetary collapse...

While mocking and excluding as "conspiracy theorists" anyone who actually joins the dots to notice what They are doing!

Why does the collapse and dystopia scenario have such a fascination for modern people, and over so many decades? 

Why do people so much enjoy reading and viewing such fictions? 

I think one answer is that it is mostly a yearning for simplification of life and reversion to an imagined earlier stage of consciousness. 

The notion seems to be that a collapse into dystopia will strip-away all our "first world problems", anxieties and scruples; by an enforced focus of attention on immediate survival. 

And that this survival imperative will also simplify morality - so that we can become completely selfish and pleasure seeking - with (what seems like) the perfect excuse that we had "no alternative". 

Survivalism also carries the double incentive of indulging our spiteful natures. 

This shows-through the survivalist fantasies - peeping through the screen of rationalizations - I mean the pleasure taken in the imagined miseries, suffering and death of "other people"; while simultaneously blaming them for their situation and congratulating "ourselves" for our superiority in avoiding it! 

The fantasy is of the survivalist looking down upon the desperate situation of the masses, or perhaps the destruction of earth itself; with a combination of noble regret and smugness - while fortified by the conviction of having been "chosen" for the responsibility to continue the legacy of the human race. 

Oh yes - the spitefulness behind all this stuff is very evident!  

The bizarre incoherence of mainstream modern life is such that this desperate personal survivalism at any price, alternates with a cultural obsession with euthanasia; painless annihilation on demand. 

I regard this as evidence of demonic capture; that people have (willingly) surrendered their fundamental life-aims to purposively evil spirits; who are sadistically "playing with" human souls, and enjoying their power to seduce and manipulate human aspirations and behaviour. 

Just as the Elite survivalists enjoy their ability to manipulate public opinions and behaviours in all kinds of self-destructive but contradictory ways - to manufacture a delusional bubble and induce the masses to to choose to inhabit it - so, in Their turn, these credulous and foolish elites are themselves being manipulated by demonic lies. 

The elite survivalists are plotting to destroy a "doomed" world and most of its "useless" people (or sometimes planning to escape from a possible or impending catastrophic natural disaster); but in practice all this survivalism will amount to wrecking the world in order to build their own spiritual prisons, soul-torture chambers, and self-execution rooms. 

Such is Modern Mankind sans God and Jesus, excluding the soul and spirits; when the highest ideology is utilitarian altruistic hedonism, in this-world. 

When human life is bounded by birth and death, and is "about" nothing more than our state of happiness (and official ethics are merely justified by supposedly enhancing alleged happiness). 

We have committed our-selves to metaphysical assumptions that have left people with nothing-but the hope of optimizing their current state of pleasure, minimizing their risks of suffering. 

Then we have refused to acknowledge this is what we have-done. 

We made ourselves a gaol, walked into it; and then forgot we built it, blinded ourselves to the open doors, and cried that we cannot possibly escape. 

 

And the outcome is that we are wide-open, credulous, and willing to embrace our own destructive manipulation by those who are more selfish and powerful than ourselves - whether these others are incarnated humans, or demonic spirits. 

Fantasies of selfish escape and survivalism - at whatever level - are just one of these many destructive and corrupting manipulations.