I guess it depends on your point of view.
Where I live, prepping means being prepared for an earthquake, flooding etc. So you have water for three days and some food.
You might take a comfy pair of shoes to work in case you have to walk home.
You make a plan on what to do if you are separated from your family during an emergency.
In the US prepping seems to be about which guns you have and how willing you are to use them on the neighbors to stop them stealing your stuff.
I live in a helpful society. When things go bad we muck in and help out, as we have seen in recent years with various natural disasters.
The US is a predatory society where the goal is to amass as much resource as possible and hoard it. Or conversely, go out and take what you want by force.
I would suggest the best prep for surviving a disaster, and continuing to survive and recover afterwards, is a healthy, friendly society.
No matter how good your prep are, they will only hep you survive. To recover you need a community, and no amount of ammo will build a good community.
I completely agree. It seems the first step is simply planning for the normal events that may happen in life. Losing a job, a fire, an earthquake. I am strongly in favor of people in society using their brains more and planning for events that are likely to happen in their lifetimes. As their planning and preperations become more advanced preparing for less likely events is a good effort as well. Communities are the keystone of a good plan and I agree with you strongly on that point as well. The people we surround ourselves with are just as important or more so than the material ways in which we prepare for the future. Great thoughts on this!
Thanks for your response. The other thing that I prep with - is skills and knowledge. They take up no room, can't be stolen and are easy to carry.
And they make you very valuable in an emergency, and in the recovery phase.