Survival vs survival...what's the difference?
I grew up spending a lot of time outdoors. My mother and I were blessed to rent a house on some of our friends' family property of 60 acres. Hunting, shooting, fishing, and camping were daily activities. Vacations consisted of spending a week or two with grandpa in the south GA woods cutting timber and learning more natural oddities and facts. (Plant id, animal tracking, woodcraft).
I joined the scouts at age 11 and stayed active through achieving the Eagle Scout Rank at age 18. Our scoutmaster completed his 50th year as a scoutmaster just before I reached Eagle, so the way things were done in our troop were a lot more traditional (better).
My basic question is this: I read about the general approach to survival here and having discussions with others in the firearms community and there seems to be a difference in mindset. I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but it almost seems like there's an unwarranted level of paranoia about it or something. People have to have all sorts of whiz-bang gadgetry to start a fire or purify some water...what's the deal?
Am I missing some higher-level survival stuff or is it just that most people didn't grow up around it like I did, so it's not just common knowledge?
Anyone with insight to both sides? Does my question even make sense?
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