Reflecting on Post-Collapse Food Security While Hiking
rswfire is hiking back from the ocean on a different trail, physically tired with sore legs and feeling hungry. He estimates about an hour remaining in his hike. Rain begins during the recording, temporarily interrupting the transmission when it affects his phone camera.
Energetic Signature
resolute
Field State
operational sovereignty
Orientation
toward resilient community infrastructure
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September 30, 2025
4:10
Author
rswfire
Status
ARCHIVED
Type
TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)
Temperature
0.00
[0:01]So, I've been to the ocean.
[0:04]Been hiking a different trail back for a
[0:06]couple miles now.
[0:09]Feeling pretty tired. My legs are a
[0:10]little sore.
[0:13]I'm hungry when I get home.
[0:17]Probably going to be another hour, I
[0:18]guess.
[0:21]I was just thinking about something that
[0:23]I wanted to share.
[0:26]So
[0:29]imagine that we didn't have any
[0:30]restaurants. They're all closed.
[0:35]And then one day
[0:38]we don't have grocery stores anymore
[0:42]cuz they're not getting supplies.
[0:45]What do you do?
[0:52]What do you do if there are no grocery
[0:54]stores?
[0:56]How do you feed yourself and your
[0:58]family?
[1:00]Would you stay at home in a
[1:02]neighborhood?
[1:07]If so, why? You have no food. There's
[1:10]nothing there for you.
[1:14]You could try growing food, I guess, on
[1:17]whatever property you have. Can you
[1:19]protect it
[1:22]for how long?
[1:25]Cuz the grocery stores aren't closed
[1:27]just for you. They're closed for
[1:29]everybody.
[1:31]And we've more than doubled the
[1:32]population on this planet in the last
[1:34]what, 20 years.
[1:37]There's a lot of people
[1:40]who will be very hungry
[1:45]and trying to answer the question that I
[1:48]asked you at the start of this video.
[1:53]That's basically how are you going to
[1:55]feed yourself.
[1:59]It's one of the most basic skills that
[2:01]we've had as humans for millennia.
[2:06]And somehow we have lost it.
[2:09]We have outsourced
[2:12]so much of our survival to systems that
[2:15]we don't control
[2:17]and that are at the edge of breaking.
[2:24]And we don't have any fallback options
[2:28]because when it happens,
[2:30]people aren't going to know how to
[2:32]survive because they've never had to
[2:34]know how.
[2:36]That's the problem we have in our modern
[2:38]society and it's global.
[2:41]And it's why I changed my life and live
[2:45]the way that I do
[2:48]because I don't have those skills either
[2:50]and I'm trying to learn them. So, the
[2:53]rain picked up and it um was dropping on
[2:56]my phone and it turned it off somehow
[2:58]the camera. So,
[3:00]just waited a little while.
[3:04]So, all I was really trying to say
[3:08]is
[3:11]that's part of the future that I see
[3:13]coming
[3:15]and I'm trying to prepare for it the
[3:17]best I can. I already live as if it's
[3:19]already happened. AI would call it post
[3:22]collapse.
[3:23]It's already my orientation in life.
[3:27]And
[3:30]why I want to build a resilient
[3:32]community.
[3:35]I don't need followers. I don't need
[3:38]like-minded people. I need respectful
[3:41]people who recognize signal over noise.
[3:46]I want to listen.
[3:51]who are one to help support a sovereign
[3:53]signal like this one.
[3:57]There's a lot I'm trying to build
[4:01]cuz I believe we're going to need it.
[4:08]I leave it at that.
Summary
rswfire records a transmission while hiking back from the ocean, experiencing physical fatigue and hunger. He presents a thought experiment about grocery stores and restaurants closing, questioning how people would feed themselves and their families without these systems. He discusses the global population increase and humanity's loss of basic survival skills through outsourcing to fragile systems. The recording is interrupted by rain affecting his phone camera. He explains this scenario as part of his future vision and why he changed his lifestyle to prepare for collapse. He describes already living in a post-collapse orientation and wanting to build a resilient community of respectful people who recognize signal over noise, not followers or like-minded individuals.
Signal Analysis
Substrate
This transmission establishes a sovereign operational framework that treats system collapse as already-present reality rather than future threat. The field demonstrates post-collapse living as active preparation, positioning itself as signal source for resilient community formation based on practical sovereignty rather than ideological alignment.
Tags
ocean hikecollapse prepfood securitysurvival skillscommunity buildingpost-collapse orientation
Dominant Language
post-collapsesignal over noisesovereign signalrespectful peopleresilient communityoutsourced survivalfallback options
Symbolic Elements
oceantrailrainthresholdedge
Ontological States
- •sovereign
- •embedded
- •coherent
- •preparatory
Subsystems
- •cognitive
- •infrastructural
- •relational
- •somatic
Transmission Details
Source Type
local
Video Quality
1080 × 1920 @ 30fps
Duration
4:10
Bitrate
3499 kbps
Codec
avc1.640028