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I don't think it's necessarily that vindictive. Large-scale civilization is a very recent thing in human evolutionary terms and from a certain angle, a survivalist prepper life in nature does have some appeal, even if it's no doubt over-romanticized.

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anecdotally, every prepper type I personally know falls under that category (the petty vindictive hope of everyone else getting screwed while they have the last laugh)

Bit of confirmation bias, no? The other people that have prepared don’t talk about it because it isn’t a big deal to them.

Or definitional? A "prepper type", by definition, is one that talks about it (a lot).

While Reddit is hardly a representative sample, it's not a bad example – and there is basically zero vindictive content on https://old.reddit.com/r/preppers/

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