Neil Strauss Emergency
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Neil Strauss‘s Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life is a major departure from any other project this prolific writer, author, and seduction expert has produced. Emergency has little to do with pickup artists or American pop artists. Instead, Emergency is about the art of survival – what a man’s supposed to do when it all goes down. That’s right; Emergency by Neil Strauss is about survival a worldwide disaster which effectively brings the civilization we know to an end. That means an end to the stock market, an end to cable television, an end to ordering anything you want off of Amazon, and an end to the pampered modern life where men and women can comfortably seduce one another in bars, in the workplace, or on the Internet. This is about surviving the “apocalypse”, or whatever you want to call it when modern society falls apart due to some disaster.
Neil Strauss – Pickup Expert
If you came to read about Neil Strauss the seduction guru and you’re not interested in that subject, that’s all that will be talked about on this post. You can read about Neil Strauss’s pickup techniques at the link provided. Neil Strauss spent three years researching this book, so he apparently finds it that concerning. That’s three years where he could have made a lot of money selling dating tips or interviewing the latest pop star, but instead, he went out on the road to talk to survivalists, cult leaders, billionaires, and anyone else who has an opinion on surviving a global emergency.
Emergency for Billionaires
Strauss learns that billionaires are more frightened about civilization ending than anyone, so they are taking the most precautions (naturally, they would have the resources to do so). Of course, the world’s set up to cater to men (and women) of great money, so naturally an event which brings that to an end would naturally terrify the “haves”. In a world were cash has no meaning, Neil Strauss learns that skills and knowledge are much more important.
Surviving an Emergency – Survival for Normal Folks
Once he started to talk to average people and experts alike, Neil Strauss came to realize that fleeing into the countryside and hiding from everyone else might not be the right idea. For one, there’s less wilderness in America now than ever, so becoming a master huntsman and living off the land, while useful, still leaves questions like where you go to live off the land, how many other people are going to be there, and exactly how solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short that life is going to be. So Neil Strauss began to understand that a new society would arise in the aftermath of an international, order-shaking emergency. In this society, people with the skills to help others are going to be a rare commodity, and therefore be in the best position to make friends, collect the resources they need, and even be in positions of leadership. In this type of emergency, the apocalypse doesn’t really happen and human nature doesn’t change – it just adapts to the new situation. The obvious conclusion is that people need to adapt to the new situation, as well, and the smartest, most skilled, most prepared people are going to do so. That’s what Neil Strauss took from his studies, and he began to learn a few skills that would help him as much as wilderness survival.
- Wilderness Survival – Living Off the Land. This is good information to have, but not key.
- Urban Escape and Evasion – Hot-Wiring Cars, Lockpicking, Car Chases
- Crisis Management Work – Dealing with Major Unpredictable Threats on Organizational Level.
- Emergency Medical Technicians – Becoming an EMT or Paramedic.
In Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss, his readers come away with a list of skills and concepts they should familiarize themselves with, if not master. Strauss comes to the conclusion that, if it all falls apart, the people who can pick up the pieces and stitch together a new form of community are going to be best-off. That’s his recommendation, and that’s what he’s preparing for.
Neil Strauss Emergency Review
This isn’t what I expected next from Neil Strauss, but it actually makes sense, when you start to think about it. Neil Strauss isn’t your average seduction expert. He’s a journalist at heart. So he’ll probably spend his career (if the Earth doesn’t wreck) studying some aspect of his life that he considers lacking or troubling, get to know the fringe culture surrounding that aspect of his life, and come away with practical skills to make himself better prepared for those situations. That’s what he did in The Game, and that’s what he did in Emergency. The writing in this 400+ page book contains a well thought-out prose spiced with a reasonable amount of humor, written in the modern style Neil Strauss is known for. If you liked Neil Strauss’s other books and are at all interested in this subject matter, you’ll probably find Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life a fascinating read. As for the advice itself, I’m reminded of a character in World War Z by Max Brooks, where the rich pampered people, the executive types, and the cubicle-dwelling corporate drones end up going to survival skills classes, and there’s the one case where a formerly rich women (I think it was a rich woman) ended up being trained new skills by her former Mexican-American house servant, whose skill set better prepared her for the new world order. When you stop to think about it, if modern civilization suddenly stopped one day, so much of the information, technical knowledge, and possessions most of us have spent our lives collecting would be useless. And we wouldn’t have 3 years to learn the new skill sets, like Neil Strauss. If that scares the hell out of you, consider buying Neil Strauss’s Emergency and learning what you need to know to survive the Great Collapse.
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