Surviving the Armageddon - Transformation without the Travel

Earthquakes, hurricanes and fires, are shaking and burning our world. The biggest storm flattening the USA however, is the current administration. What to do when the world-as-you-know-it, is coming to an end? I’ve been thinking about this predicament, because it’s happening.
I have found signing on-line petitions, holding signs in front of a library, financially supporting organizations that fight the political fight for us,  dissatisfying.
“We must resist,” they say. “Really?” I say. You can’t “resist” an earthquake, a hurricane, a wild fire. The Jews couldn’t “resist” the Nazi regime. Neither are you “resisting”  the current administration. Read “Stones from the River”, by Ursula Hegi and tell me again if you’re not one of those citizens who just walked along with what was happening, their speaking-out reduced to a whisper, a stone-faced silence while the “others” were hauled away. 
What can I do while the world around me is burning up, blowing away, shaking on its foundations? Can I make a difference?
I’ve come up with a short answer: Live a responsive life. 
To live a responsive life, you have to be able to respond to changing circumstances. Easier said than done. Here are some ways you can become more “responsive”.

1. Be flexible - How are you going to adapt to a drastically changing reality? Do you have the skill to stay calm under stress, can you give up your daily habits and sources of comfort you rely on now? Train your mind to detach when needed, practice mindfulness, learn to live with (perceived) suffering. Learn new, practical survival skills.
2. Be ready/prepared - How are you going to feed and hydrate yourself and your loved ones; keep warm/cool, when traditional sources of gas/electricity become monopolized and unaffordable? Where does your food come from? Can you access local food sources? Do you have access to alternative forms of energy, can you live without needing gas or electricity (i.e. camp out, put up a temporary shelter)? 
3. Be healthy - how far can you walk, how much can you carry when current means of transportation stop? Can you temporarily survive without medication? Can you stand the elements? Can you sleep under the stars?
4. Be knowledgeable - How do you inform yourself about the world around you? How much do you rely on Google versus your instincts? Map quest versus personal orientation in the landscape? What’s handed to you in the grocery store versus what you can grow or find in the wild? Do you know how to make a loaf of bread, cook a meal from scratch without a recipe?
5. Be part of a community - Find/create a community, a family, that reaches out instead of points fingers. A community that shoulders the burdens together. A community that shares instead of takes. A community that isn’t driven by power or fame but by collective survival. 

When the long overdue earthquake hits Southern Oregon, when the wildfires roar through my town as they did in Santa Rosa CA (no, not because an illegal immigrant set them off, Breitbart/Palin), if or when the current administration takes away my social security, I can rely on what I’m doing already. Walk (to a shelter after grabbing my Bug-Out Bag with essentials), live healthy with less, share with my neighbors whatever is left, and start again somewhere, somehow.

The current administration can’t take away my desire for living. Natural disasters can’t squelch my joy in the experience of nature. A new world order can’t erase the survival skills I’ve gathered over a lifetime, deny my community building experiences. I can lose my home, but with help I can rebuild, the earth can be scorched, but plant life will come back. My money may become worthless, but I can make and grow things I need. I can walk, meet people and embrace them, travel to a different part of the world and start over again. If that happens, it will be true transformation travel!

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