I saw it.

It pissed me off.
They could have just had the survival stuff in it without making the "survival expert" into a sick, twisted perv that makes the rest of us look bad.

 

US Gov + Main Stream Entertainment = Sheeple taking it as Gospel.

 

Or maybe it was the goverment's way of teaching the sheeple that we survivalists/preppers are all baaaaaaaaaaad.

 

You beat me to making a thread about this, I was bit PO'd last night.
More upset this morning, am I a BAD person being prepared???
I was suckered into watching it from commercial scenes.
My fav part: kids eating preps.
My worst part: body remains in sink.

 

Didn't see it but heard about it over on the Survival Podcast. It ticks me off, too.

 

My wife and I love Medium but this one got to me. The survivalist character was a good guy at first and very helpful but then they had to turn him into a crazed killer. And the argument about having a gun in the house was typical hollywood. Ruined the show and as usual cast a bad light on people who prepare for the worst.

 

 

My child bride was watching it and I sat down and watched when they started talking about buying a firearm...POed.....

 

dude, you have a child bride???!!! lol.

 

And then these jackarse media types come to boards like this and wonder why no one with brains is willing to talk with them?:xeye:

 

I was so angry when I saw this episode. It was only that I could use it on my show that held me in place long enough to watch the entire thing.

I was just asked about this stereotype in an interview and I think there are three reasons for it.

1. It just makes more interesting entertainment. It doesn't matter if the character is a hero or villain a survivalist with a gun, clad in cammo that can fight is more sensational then a calm rational family that takes personal responsibility.

2. There are people (especially in the media) that want more and bigger government. Independent and self sufficient people are hard to sell social programs to. None of these people want the general population to be self sufficient. I think modern survivalists are seen as a threat here because we talk about individual sufficiency and responsibility.

3. In the past everyone in rural and even much of "urban" America lived the way modern survivalists lived. They farmed, foraged and stored food, etc. Back then none of these people called themselves "survivalists" but the ones that were called survivalists at that time were well, the people on the fringe digging bunkers in the sticks. I think some of the stereo types are left over from those days. I mean back as recently as the 80s when I was growing up in the coal region of PA, everyone was really a survivalist, just no one thought of themselves that way.