Homestead

One of the things that has always fascinated me about the 'prepper' community is that the skills that will let them survive a SHTF scenario (self-reliance, assertiveness, cautiousness and forethought), make them poor candidates for leadership of a post-apocalyptic world. Most are prepared to use violence to maintain their personal safety and a quite willing to kill anyone that they see as a threat. There is also a strong undercurrent of wanting to establish an authoritarian state in the aftermath. Of course, most do not have opulent displays of wealth that would attract vagrants and looters. Most survival compounds are modest on the outside and will be physically disconnected from the outside world for the first few months of the apocalypse.