Very true. This is a good point that I should have mentioned. Since he retired from GM a few years ago, the intensity of his obsession has increased exponentially.
retirement/being fired, realizing nobody gives a fuck about you, that you are at war with colleagues and other humans all struggling to insure their own survival, that we re just animals doing stuff subonciously for most of our lives, all old people or people who are unemployed and dont drown themselves into addiction are able to see our true inner nature looking at their specie from outside.
But still you have to be part of society one way or another, and you still have to live with people once SHTF.
another thing is that, when shit really hit the fan, only those who have firearms and know how to use them have decent odds of survival. Everyone else is just a moving target.
The really smart person is the one who adapts and prepares without telling anyone else but his loved ones and not overdoing the whole thing.