At its essence, a prepper lifestyle is geared toward avoiding trauma and drama.  This explains why most preppers are: Well-trained, well-armed, well-stocked, morally upright and altruistic, geographically well-situated in inland rural areas, well-informed/situationally aware, and, self-sufficient. This contrasts us from society’s normal sheeple, who are generally the inverse, to wit: Poorly-trained, unarmed or very poorly armed minimally stocked, morally ambiguous and opportunistic, choose to live in vulnerable regions (i.e. high-population coastal cities) generally oblivious and under-informed, and, system-dependent. Media and Politics One of the great ironies of 21st-century society is that the mass media is fixated on trauma and drama, … The post Avoiding Trauma and Drama: Get Rural! appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.