How Do You Deal with All This?!

How do you deal with this wild world? This is the Intrepid Commander James Walton from the Prepper Broadcasting Network. I see an overwhelming amount of despair. Fear, anxiety. About the state of affairs in the world. And I thought as a prepper. I'd get down and get into the mud with you. And talk about how to survive it. But not in the. Not in the sense of beans, bullets and water bottles. And life straws and you know. Geiger counters. I'm talking about mentally. I'm talking about. One thing that you can do each day that will be the counterbalance to the new world that we live in because we do live in a new world. Now, if you're flooded with this kind of despair, anxiety and such because we live in a time of great unknowing, although we have so much information we really can't call it. We can't really call it. We don't really know what's coming next. We have an idea. But we don't really know. And what we get fed every day is fear. And we're going to talk about that. So the whole situation is you're afflicted by two things and you don't even know it. And we can wrap up almost everything that you're feeling into these two afflictions. But you have to know what they are before you can do anything about them. One of them is called the 100-year amnesia, and every human being in the West suffers it. Almost. The majority suffer the 100-year amnesia, okay? There's no getting around that. And the other major affliction is too much news and too much news around doom. And these two things combined, man, this is the whole diagnosis, right? This is the entire diagnosis of what is happening right now with the overwhelm, with the anxiety, with the depression, with the, you know what I mean? The whole feeling of ick, right? This sort of feeling of like, I just don't want to even, I just want to disappear onto the side of a mountain. Most people won't. They'll endure it, right? The massive men lead lives of quiet desperation and that is because life changes. Things change. Things are scary. Life is scary, right? But I will say, just based on my understanding of history, why this time feels so dire is because the weapons being used against you are, have never been seen before. Okay? The weapons used against you are the first of their kind. So in some ways, you have that sort of World War I, you know, getting mowed down by machine gun feeling, right? That sort of, mustard gas in the air type of feeling, right? These are new age informational weapons used to brainwash you and manipulate your actions and emotions. You're under attack. This is no doubt about it, right? And you pay for it monthly. So do I. But the other problem is we are in the midst of the 100-year amnesia. And the 100-year amnesia, we'll start with that, is... is the fact that in the matter of a couple generations, max, we've lost every skill, almost every skill that we use to survive for thousands of years. Over the span of thousands of years, we learned how to make effective tools and effective weapons. We learned how to manipulate the planet to our will. We learned how to walk into the woods and find medicine, whether it be from leaves, roots, barks. We learned these things. We learned what types of woods you make a handle out of. You know what I mean? How to make an axe head. How to make an arrow. How to make an arrowhead. What type of wood to use for these things. You know, fire being just... Since about 1500s, the Europeans have had fire on lockdown with firelocks. You know what I mean? They weren't using... Sticks and bones and, you know what I mean? They weren't rubbing sticks together. They had fire locks. Fundamentally, the majority of skills that got us here are gone. Food preservation, you know what I mean? Even education, largely. The majority of skills, hunting, fishing, right? Self-defense by any meaningful stretch. The vast majority of these skills have been lost. And that's just talking skills. That's not talking lineage. What comes from all of that? So we find ourselves in a situation where we're basically, basically as a species, we've been disarmed. We've been largely disarmed over the last hundred years by a villain named comfort and convenience. This villain is so incredibly effective. You can never disarm the people the way that comfort and convenience has done. You can never force us, you know what I mean, through any kind of tyranny to forget our base skills. Because even in a war, you would remember, oh, get the yarrow. The yarrow stops the bleeding, right? This villain of comfort and convenience over the last hundred years has just made us lazy. And we've forgotten everything. We've forgotten every skill that we've used to survive to get to where we are today. And we are basically a disarmed species. And of course, you know that in your heart of hearts, right? Your soul knows that. Your mind understands that, that you could be more. But the phone and the television and the heat, the HVAC system, the styrofoam-wrapped meat packets tell you like, eh, I don't know though. Do I really? I mean. You know, this is my age. My age is pretty good. It's pretty easy. I don't know if I need all these skills. Why do I need to know how to make a shelter? Why do I need to know how to catch rainwater with a tarp out in the wild? What's the point of learning about a solar still, you know? Why do I need to learn 15 different types of trees and 40 different types of plants and the roots and the leaves and, you know, which ones to mix and boil and simmer and steep and make a decoction and a... I got Tylenol. The 100-year amnesia has made us beholden to whoever's selling the thing. Right? I need the thing. Whoever's selling the thing is getting my money because I need the thing. I sure as hell don't know how to do anything. Puts us in a very unique position. And moreover, it also, we start blank. And we have... there's the whole self-esteem and the whole self-confidence and the whole, like, you build that. Probably the best way and the first way we ever built that was through Dominion of the Planet. So the first affliction that you face is the 100-year amnesia. The fact that you've been disarmed by comfort and convenience. You've got nothing, right? You know that if it all falls apart, you're useless. Largely. Now, this might not be true of many of you out there listening, but just follow me here. I'm making a piece of content that you can give to someone else, okay, and help them out. If you had the skills, if you spent time in the woods surviving, if you knew you could handle it with everything falling down, with the grid going down and all that kind of stuff, then you wouldn't have this level of existential dread, right? You wouldn't have it. It just wouldn't exist. You would say to yourself, I mean, lights on, I'm good. Lights off, I'm good. But all of us really share, at least in some part, this 100-year amnesia. Now, your second affliction is too much news and doom news. Right? The sheer volume of news requires that it be either perverse or negative. Right? In order for these companies to stay afloat, they have to write something that's either perverse or negative. Or. the end of the world. And frankly, we all get too much of it. But here's the real sneaky part. About 16 years ago, I started going on prepper websites, prepper news websites, prepper how-to websites, prepper this and that website, right? And there was a particular type of content at websites like shtfplan.com and the economiccollapseblog.com, these types of websites, go if you dare, okay? They will change your life. And if you're not willing to prepare, they'll change your life in a bad way. But I'd go to these websites and I'd listen to them talk about the economic collapse and the death of the dollar and the China doing this in our country and China spies and Russia this and Iran that and And, uh you know oil and peak oil and all kinds of doomsday scenarios that i'm not you know you don't deflate them they they are what they are they exist you know there's a lot of bad stuff going on out there in the world um but i was hitting it every day i was hitting that pipe every day you know what i mean and i used it i used it to get me through the work day i used it to get me home and still have energy in the tank to do more Because what if the end is nigh? So, I made the choice to read this terrible news, right? And then I followed it up with action. I counterbalanced this flow of terrible news that I drank in and counterbalanced it with, you know, with action. Prepping. Put food up. Put water up. Get chickens. Start cooking. Harvesting eggs. Oh my God, we got eggs. Okay. We're catching rainwater and rain barrels. Things are happening. You know what I mean? We're doing the big things. What happened to you is devious. You were drug into this world. You didn't ask for it. You were pooled. You were deceived. From the time about COVID kicked off till now, your news feed changed. Your news feed became one of by any means necessary. Your news feed became one of desperation. Suddenly, you go to the news and you find the same kind of news that I used to read on the economiccollapseblog.com. The world is changing. Climate change is heating up. Droughts. The Aguilala aquifer is too low. Farmers can't get enough water for their crops. They're selling their water shares. It's a dust bowl. It's this bowl. It's that bowl. And it happened very smoothly. And in such a way that you probably didn't even really realize it all that much. But before long, you were sitting there staring at a prepping website. A prepper website. You were staring at a website every single day of your life. You turned the phone on. You didn't ask for it. You turned the phone on and then the headlines are just bad, bad, worse, worse, bad. The president got shot today. There's a new war. The earth is polluted. L.A. 's on fire. They don't have water in the fire hydrants. You know what I mean? Over and over. Unbelievable levels of corruption in Minnesota. You wouldn't even believe it. All of this stuff constantly. And the biggest problem of it all is not that you've been deceived into reading doom news and making believe that it's actual news that affects you. Because no matter how corrupt Minnesota is, I don't know how much that's going to affect you, right? The whole... Every house that burned down in L.A., likely, if you don't live in L.A. or have people who live in L.A., probably really didn't affect you much at all. Except for maybe the fact that you spent some time around the coffee going, how did they not have water in the fire hydrants? What the hell is going on? Yet you eat it up, man. You eat it up every single day. You don't want it, but it's been delivered to you. So the doom news overwhelms your brain. And you don't counterbalance with prepping. So it just sits there. You know what I mean? It just sits there and rots and becomes radical anxiety and despair and, you know, depression and the whole nine yards. It just sits there and rots. And you're like, oh, my God, what are we going to do? Nothing? We're not going to do anything? What am I going to do? What are we going to do about all this? And you just find yourself in this scenario where it just is what it is. You know, here we are. Here we are, folks. We are at a point where no one knows why they feel like hell, but they wake up and feel like hell every single day. And it doesn't matter if their political team wins. It doesn't matter if their football team wins. It's because you're afflicted. You're afflicted with the 100-year amnesia, and you're afflicted with doom news around the clock. The worst president, Nazi, monstrous president of all time is running the country and there's nothing we can do to stop him. So what do you do with all this information? What do you actually do? The first thing I'd recommend is try God. And I know this might fall on ears that it won't help because you've got to be ready to accept something like this. You bring something like this up to the wrong pair of ears and it ricochets, right? But if words like this hit the right person, then it might knock them in. You know what I mean? It might knock them into the Bible and they get trapped. Clothes is on them. Try God. Go to God, really. Really look into the Bible. Bask in. I look at my day-to-day routine with God as like a. It's like a video game faith bar. You know you have like a health bar that runs down until you get a med kit or something and then the health bar goes up. I wake up every day and I think I have like a faith bar. You know what I mean? And it starts low. So you wake up and you be generous and gracious, right? You wake up and you... I listen to nuns chanting and singing a lot in the background that might work. I feel like the faith bar goes up. I listen to the rosary chant that I say the rosary. I pray to God. I read the Bible. These things, where they fit and when I can fit them, they are part of my day-to-day life. And your faith bar is a thing. When it's high, you feel better. And the other thing about it is you feel like you have something else that you can hang on to in all of this craziness. There's something else out there you can hold on to. You have opportunity here. You know what I mean? You have opportunity here. You can do things. It'll change your life. It changed my life tremendous. I had to go through hell, really. To completely come into God's grace, I had to go through hell. But it was worth every bit of it. It really was. It was worth every bit. I mean, it's horrible. But it was worth every bit of it. Because now I have the ally in the face of all of this. So at the very least, I'd say, you know, explore that. Go to God. Try that out. Get into that Bible. Talk to that family member who's religious. Go to church. Just go. Just go to church. Churches are beautiful. It's a beautiful experience. Even if you're not religious, to go to church is just a good time. It's a beautiful experience. There's nothing like it. The architecture in the world is dead now. It's all boxes, ugly concrete, miserable right-angle boxes, right? You go to church, you get to see real, actual architecture at work, things that are dead and gone. Go to God. Give it a try. What else? What do you got to lose? You know what I mean? At this point. But the real takeaway from today's show outside of God first is you really need to take control of your day is what you need to do. Like you fundamentally need to take control of your day to day life. And what I mean by that is you start by talking through or writing down. I prefer the writing down method. What's an optimal day? What is the optimal day? Weekday and weekend. What's it look like? Most people have no idea what a good day is. They don't take the time to say it. What's a good day? What do you eat for breakfast on a good day? You know what I mean? And when I say good, I don't mean luxurious. I don't mean lavish. I'm talking good. What's a day where at the end of the day, you go to bed exhausted and satisfied? How's that day look? You know what I mean? I don't mean you get a short stack of pancakes from IHOP with whipped cream and cherries all over the top of them. I'm talking about a good day. I'm talking about, you know, three eggs with jalapenos. Whole wheat toast with good butter. I'm talking about doing things successively in a day that makes you feel like, wow, this day's really going well. You know what I mean? We've really done well here on this day. So what does a breakfast look like? What does a lunch look like? What are the tasks in the morning, in the evening? Is there a workout? Should there be a workout? You know, a lot of people, they don't want to work out, but should there be a workout in a great day? There probably should be some kind of physical activity in a great day, right? How about time? Time with the people you care about. What does that look like? You know, should you spend some time with a kid, with a spouse? How much time? What are the activities that you do? There's nothing wrong with sitting down and really figuring out what does the best day I can create look like? What does it look like? How about work? What are the things at work I should do? What are the things at work I'm not doing? What are the things at home that I need to do but I'm not doing? Nothing makes a day better for me than knowing I've got a project that I've kind of been, I don't really want to do that. And then you do it. And that feeling afterwards is like, oh, I did it. It's no longer on my plate. I don't have to think about it anymore. It's gone. In the face of planning your day, I can promise you, you're not going to say, I need to scroll terrible, horrible, awful news for at least 30 minutes today. And look, if you fall into that in your day, I'm not saying that's the wrong thing. I'm just saying you add discipline and you add structure to to your day. And you build out a great day. When you build out a great day, it's not to achieve it. It's not to check every box. But it's to understand that there's a bunch of stuff you can do today and every day that just improve the day by and large. So sit down and write out your perfect day and make that your priority. very quickly, particularly if there's some hard things, particularly if there's some running or some lifting of weights or some, uh, you know, focus. I need to just focus on this thing. I need to get this book written. I need to get this dream created. I need to sit down and plan this thing out that I've been needing to plan this trip. I want to go on this hiking trip, this hunting trip, this fishing trip. You sit down and you take the time to do those things, man. And, uh, I'm telling you right now, all of a sudden life gets sweeter. And it becomes a counterbalance. And if you're worried about the thousand year amnesia, then you can get yourself to a situation where you are, you know, you start taking those skills on too regularly. Right? Now you're in a position where you're taking on and learning skills that you know you should be learning or should learn. And you got time to do that all of a sudden because you built it into a day. And now instead of going to bed thinking about like what's going to happen with the oil price or what's going to happen with whatever thing, war, you know, election, riots, the whole thing. Instead of being in that boat, all of a sudden you're in this situation where now I'm exhausted. You know, I practiced this. I learned that. I spent time with my. Two children. I sat down and had a conversation with my wife. We went out for a walk. I walked the dogs. I took care of this responsibility. That responsibility. Whatever the hell had to happen. I'm not going to bed with the combined anxiety of the world's falling apart. And I have a laundry list of things to do at home that I didn't do either. You know what I mean? None of this stuff becomes a thing. And we find ourselves then. Able to deal with the ails. Of. Of the day. So I hope that wasn't too long. I wanted to go into this in depth. And I knew it was going to take some time. If you're listening PBN. And you have someone in your life. Share it with them. You know what I mean. Share this with them. And let them know there's. There's a way out. Because there's a lot of people. Who are suffering this man. I have no doubts. You know. There are just lots of people. Who are suffering this. You. I realize only so many people are ever going to truly prepare, you know. I don't know that we have a nation or that things have been bad enough long enough that people will really take this preparing thing in earnest. And it's not the complete answer either, I should say, right? It doesn't matter how prepared you are if you and your wife are on the outs and your kids hate you and you're breaking up and you're going to have a divorce, like, You can have the greatest fortress of solitude you've ever seen. Your life is in hell. So it's definitely more holistic than that. And I understand that, you know, when people are woken up at 2 a.m. breathing heavy, it's not always, oh my God, the Iran is bombing us or something along those lines, right? A lot of times it's this bill, it's this project, it's this job, it's this mistake I made, it's this problem I have. And, yeah, man, you could take a hold of that. But understand your afflictions. You are a disarmed human being. All the skills that have helped you survive and have made you a survivor, generations upon generations, have been taken away from you. They've been forfeited by you, actually. Probably forfeited by your parents because they didn't teach you either. So they were lost. You've been disarmed. And you're facing now a hypotechnical, technological... enemy that has the ability to manipulate your mind and now has the ability to possibly shut the power off the banks off and the whole nine years it is a lot it is a lot but look here i am it's sunday afternoon and nothing's happened today right we can't lose the rest of our life to this what if what if that happens tomorrow what if this happens tomorrow prepping is is impossible to avoid if you want to stay sane this day and age But you have to take ownership of your day. And that's how you counterbalance the unbelievable nightmarish news feeds and the 1,000-year amnesia. Thank you for your time, folks. Talk to you soon. Listen up, PBN family. If you want a viable alternate emergency communications method. Every Sunday, 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, we will be conducting a radio check with the community. You will need a. POC-capable radio from Skycom PTT. 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