At this site, we try to take anything we can from whatever we view on Doomsday Preppers. However in due course we should move back and understand that there truly isn't a lot of material to utilize. In the instance of 15 yr old Jason Beacham, we might be in above our heads.
Responsibilities and Prepping
Personally I believe that the option of National Geographic to portray Beacham like a prepper is both exploitative and derogatory for the community. Jason, like numerous Fifteen year old kids who wear black, likes to talk about anarchy and to gather knives. For cuisine, he likes commandeering processed products from his mother's pantry and for drills he enjoys to set up flames in abandoned buildings with his good friends.
I don't need to go into the reason why this won't resemble prepping in any sense of the word. This portion showed every little thing the community detests about the program. I have observed some backlash online focused towards Jason which I believe is greatly undeserved. We were all kids at some point and in case we had film crews following all of us around we probably wouldn't be looking clever either. Guys will certainly be guys.
The obligation is upon National Geographic for both bringing this to light for cheap rankings and allowing some very dangerous activity to go on. During the show, Jason and his close friends reached out into the wild without any safety gear, broke into an abandoned residence and lit an uncontrollable fire which could easily have threatened their lives. A film team of grown adults helped all of them to achieve this regardless of their evident shortage of skills all due to 'good television'.
Let's say that Jason and his good friends had passed from the smoke or that they got stuck in the fire themselves? I don't even need to think of the legitimate implications of breaking into a home on video should it happen to be owned.
Lessons learnt?
By the end of the day, perhaps there's a message to be learned in the guidance of young adults in the goal of prepping. Jason's mother had also been supportive regarding the most dangerous of activities such as shooting, but roughing it naturally is one thing that really needs guidance. The boy scouts exist for a reason. At the age of fifteen, Jason and his good friends are kids and it doesn't matter how independent they think they may be- they might be at serious risk if they aren't treated in this manner.
Responsibilities and Prepping
Personally I believe that the option of National Geographic to portray Beacham like a prepper is both exploitative and derogatory for the community. Jason, like numerous Fifteen year old kids who wear black, likes to talk about anarchy and to gather knives. For cuisine, he likes commandeering processed products from his mother's pantry and for drills he enjoys to set up flames in abandoned buildings with his good friends.
I don't need to go into the reason why this won't resemble prepping in any sense of the word. This portion showed every little thing the community detests about the program. I have observed some backlash online focused towards Jason which I believe is greatly undeserved. We were all kids at some point and in case we had film crews following all of us around we probably wouldn't be looking clever either. Guys will certainly be guys.
The obligation is upon National Geographic for both bringing this to light for cheap rankings and allowing some very dangerous activity to go on. During the show, Jason and his close friends reached out into the wild without any safety gear, broke into an abandoned residence and lit an uncontrollable fire which could easily have threatened their lives. A film team of grown adults helped all of them to achieve this regardless of their evident shortage of skills all due to 'good television'.
Let's say that Jason and his good friends had passed from the smoke or that they got stuck in the fire themselves? I don't even need to think of the legitimate implications of breaking into a home on video should it happen to be owned.
Lessons learnt?
By the end of the day, perhaps there's a message to be learned in the guidance of young adults in the goal of prepping. Jason's mother had also been supportive regarding the most dangerous of activities such as shooting, but roughing it naturally is one thing that really needs guidance. The boy scouts exist for a reason. At the age of fifteen, Jason and his good friends are kids and it doesn't matter how independent they think they may be- they might be at serious risk if they aren't treated in this manner.
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