A Brief History of Survivalism


A Brief History of Survivalism, is a short film highlighting the modern survivalist/prepper movement throughout our history. Highlights are 9/11, Y2K and hurricane katrina. Download the LDS Preparedness manual here.
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10 thoughts on “A Brief History of Survivalism”

  1. Looks like the godfather of modern survivalism have been left out, Mel Tappan. and No mention of the great LIVE FREE survivalist papers or American Survival guide magazine, but hey ho this is still a good informative video

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  2. What a load of rubbish…assault weapons mean exactly what the name implies, weapons used in combat to assault the enemy as they first appeared during the 2nd world war in fact. They have no place in a society at peace. Get your act together and sort out the massive social, environmental and economic problems you’ve created instead of living in the illusion that a bunker and rifle will protect you from evil.

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  3. The original Inuit, coock never meat – they heatet this only. Few menutes. They dit in, on a soapston lamp.

    Coocking pot, was made by soapstone.
    They eath meat, nearest raw.

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  4. A really good overview of the survivalist movement, can’t believe you mentioned the legends of Ruff and Brown but missed good ole Mel Tappan when most people believe it was Rawles who is the ‘father of survivalism’. Personally, think that doomsday prepper did the biggest disservice to the movement and the Politically correct crowd of today’s preppers not wanting to be labeled retreaters or survivalists. As a old school survivalist, these modern preppers have lost sight of what the goal is – to keep ones family and group safe, not go out and protest or start a political action group, not go out and play freedom fighter to restore the Constitution or local policeman post grid down. Seems like they put everything else first before their own families safety.

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  5. Excellent video!
    Y2K is what got me ‘thinking’ about preparedness, but it was being dispatched on a riot over the release of a new tennis shoe that got me actually practicing preparedness.

    Excellent video again. I always really enjoy how you put your videos together.

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  6. Historically “Back to the Landers” have a large overlap with survivalists.
    Good video
    Of all the books, movies, documentaries, fiction and non, we have to ask what percentage were correct or even partially correct.

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