>>1282351>But sadly many preppers are using prepping as an excuse to distance themselves from reality and society..Preppers are fine, but get a bad rap because of sensationalist media like "National Geographic Channel's Doomsday Preppers" or the movie, "Take Shelter" both of which show extreme views and/or represent mental illness. Media wants viewers/listeners and the best way to get that is to be sensationalist either in action or what is being said.
In fact, the very wording of your post was controlled directly by media. Which is sad for you and everyone else. Your post is more anti-prepping and vilifying than it is actual praise. You already have your mind made up it seems.
For instance, people who have post-apocalypse fantasies to the point of major prepping, as seen in, "Doomsday Preppers" are either mentally ill or being paid to act that way. There are many historical precedents of such reality tv shows paying the people, staring in the show, to act out of character in order to boost ratings. A several years ago, even 4chan had a king of a micronation (the one with the hot daughter) give a detailed account of such an incident where the producers of a reality tv show tried to get his family to be shown stockpiling weapons and wearing matching uniforms, neither of which they do. He of course said, "no thanks," to even being in a reality tv show.
Now ask yourself this, how many people are mentally ill to that specific amount of radicalism? Not that many. There's only a very tiny amount of the population who are actually mentally ill. Of that small percent, very few are preppers.
Thus, the media is shown to be vilifying prepping. I wonder what is up their sleeve as to want that? On the other hand, most 1st world governments actively try to get their citizens to be as disaster-ready as possible. For instance, the USA government (DHS) runs this website,
https://www.ready.gov/ 