Here on this site, we attempt to take anything we can from what we view about Doomsday Preppers. However eventually we must move back and realize that there definitely isn\’t a lot of material to work with. In the case of Fifteen year old Jason Beacham, we may be in over our heads.

Obligations and Prepping

In person I believe the choice of National Geographic to portray Beacham as a prepper is equally exploitative as it is derogatory for the community. Jason, similar to many Fifteen year old kids who wear black, likes talking about anarchy as well as gathering knives. For cuisine, he likes commandeering refined items from his mother\’s pantry and for drills he likes to set up fires in abandoned complexes 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 learned?

By the end of the day, maybe there is a message to be learned in the direction of younger people who desire to prep . Jason\’s mom seemed to be supportive of his most dangerous activities like shooting but roughing it naturally which really requires guidance. The boy scouts are available for a reason. At the age of 15, Jason and his good friends are kids and regardless of how self-sufficient they feel they might be they might be under substantial threat in the case that they aren\’t treated in this manner.