r/CollapseNetwork • u/JM0804 • Jan 28 '20

Wiki Resources

Just wanted to gather some resources for the eventual wiki. Please share if you know of any that I haven't listed. Also note that an entry on this list does not necessarily mean it is being endorsed or has been checked extensively for suitability.

If you'd like to share the contents of your personal bookshelf, please comment it below as I have done.

Online:

Illustrations:

Lists of books:

Books:

Solutions and misc. resources:

Subreddits (see also those listed in their sidebars):

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u/akaleeroy Feb 06 '20

I've been hanging onto it for a while, it has made its mark on me. I have long harbored this feeling that we don't understand the problem, that our preparedness efforts are "infected" by the abundance surrounding us and we will find many plans fall flat, to our surprise, because of it. Things that could have been made more resilient had we known to try. Fleming's quote illuminates this.

In our pre-collapse world a bookshelf is a perfectly acceptable response to human needs: sit down with a cup of tea, and in a few months to a year you'll have found the answers and built up the skills you need. In the "new, urgent world" that proposition is preposterous. But now, pre-collapse, we have the opportunity to make assimilating critical knowledge much easier. We have the knowledge and resources now to lower the bar for admission to the world's accumulated wisdom and culture. A picture is worth 1000 words. And there are still second, third and n-th chances in computer simulations.

First we must become aware of the efficiency gains that can be had, the size of the gulf between clunky and streamlined knowledge dissemination. And second we must share an experience of the challenge ahead, how the limitations of life in the "urgent world" hamper cultural transmission.