How Vermont can survive a nuclear war

Tarl Warwick is a libertarian/Alt-Lite commentator at Youtube, better known under his pseudonym Styxhexenhammer666. He describes himself as an occultist and ex-Satanist, while also posting a lot of political content (some of it interesting).

“After the Ashes” is a somewhat weird book published by Styx in 2014. On the one hand, it sounds pessimistic, arguing that nuclear war is inevitable. The tract contains a long list of survivalist pro-tips. On the other hand, however, the author is surprisingly optimistic: humanity can survive a nuclear war, and the new world arising from its ashes will be much better and, above all, much more libertarian!

Here is a quote: “Scavenging what's left of society when it has been mostly obliterated by our governments will be a difficult but rewarding task- perhaps even a fun one, since it will be a bit like Indiana Jones style archaeology, or tomb raiding.” Here is another, even stranger: “Because so many trappings of civilization come from just the last few generations, we might think of the post-atomic world not as a throwback to the stone age but more a steampunk-style fusion of very old and rather new- even the severely decreased world population is likely to stabilize at several billion if people amalgamate and organize organize and repair the world to the best of their ability. Instead of a near human extinction, the world may after only a few decades be equivalent to what it was like in the middle of the 1900s with concerted effort.”

I get the impression that the nuclear war is really Warwick's version of the Revolution or the Apocalypse, purging the world from impurities, making all things new. Note also that it's inevitable, something world revolutions or apocalypses are often said to be. This surprised me somewhat, since the author sounds more reasonable (relatively speaking!) on his Youtube channel. Of course, it could also be read as an allegory of sorts, in which case Warwick isn't really talking about a nuclear war at all, but about survival in the here-and-now (which is crisis-ridden enough).

Personally, I think we're doomed in the event of a full scale nuclear war, so let's hope that it never happens. Don't worry, organic gardening might still become the law of the land…