Book Review – The Modern Survival Manual
Thanks to Laura Gutman for sharing this book review with us
I have been meaning to mention a very interesting book. It is for those of us who are REALLY worried about what the future may hold, and trying to get a grip on ways that we might begin to make provisions for “the worst”. The book is titled: “The Modern Survival Manual”, and is written by Fernando Ferfal Aguirre. He is (was) a middle class family man in Argentina, and lived through the period when the nation was absconded with by communist thugs. He started off living much as most of us do, with a well-functioning police system, secure money system, good education, food supplies flowing reliably, services to homes in the form of heat and electricity, good relief for the poor, crime under control, and so forth. After the demolition of his nation, none of those blessings were present any longer. This book is full of his advice on the means that were successful or that were unsuccessful in trying to adjust and survive that new chaos that he found himself in. Unlike many survival books, he does not focus particularly on guns and amo, altho he does have very relevant advice on those issues also. He gives a chapter to special advice from his wife about what she would have done if she had foreseen the catastrophe ahead of time. Like stock her favorite beauty products, especially if they are imported, since it is so much easier to function and be brave if you feel you look alright, and it is so hard to think when your head and hair are sticky and itchy. Thousands of useful advice like this. Do you know what happens to traffic patterns? Neither did I. What sort of friends do you need? What sort of things are most useful when an economy has deteriorated into a barter system? Hmmm. And so forth and so on. Of the many survival books that seem to be out there, this one does seem very unusual in that it reflects real life from a formerly middle class person who really did experience a national meltdown.
