The guy who thankfully has a hockey player with the same so he is not thrust in your face the way he used to be every time you did a search for collapse.
QuoteI am NOT trying to convince large numbers of people to abandon their lives ashore and adopt the full-time cruising lifestyle. Instead, my goal is to inspire those who are already living aboard their sailboats. My hope is that I can encourage them to band together with other like-minded sailors who believe that society-wrecking catastrophes might lie just below tomorrow's horizon. <-- Ray
Ray is an 'exceptional' man who from an economic point of view has only had to worry about himself. Ray has been able to earn when he need pay for boat supplies or he has had other means. Ray has been able to quit and walk away when he wants to.
'Ordinary' men like myself, live lives where others depend on them. Their obligations and understandings of life are different than from my point of view.
I do not find Ray to be a fountain of wisdom. I consider him to be an average libertarian conservative. But Ray does not like OTHER conservative types of the same ilk, claim to be more than he actually is. I have not read many of his essays, if I read more of them I might have objections to some of his 'philosophy', but I give Ray the benefit of the doubt.
The Sea Gypsy.
I never had a problem with the sea gypsy. If I were him, surviving on the seas in a collapsing world would make sense. A lifetime of experience and knowing where to go makes a bit of difference.
At sea one needs a destination. Always. In collapse there will be no destination. Everywhere you go there will be hunger. Hunger which you as a sea-gypsy will ignore after you lament about the horrors sufficiently.
Then you sail away. Magic cans of spinach appear to satiate your hunger. This does not impress me.