
In "Emergency," bestselling author Neil Strauss transforms from urban dweller to survival expert after 9/11. This New York Times bestseller reveals essential skills that could save your life when society crumbles. What's your escape plan when government protection fails?
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A writer stands in an Arizona desert, knife trembling in his hand, staring at a goat named Bettie. This isn't a scene from a survival reality show-it's a moment of reckoning. How does someone who made their living analyzing pop culture end up learning to slaughter livestock? The answer reveals something uncomfortable about the world we've built: it's far more fragile than we'd like to believe. Most of us live as though civilization is permanent, as though grocery stores will always have food and water will always flow from taps. We've forgotten that every empire eventually crumbles, every system eventually fails. The Romans thought their civilization would last forever. So did the Mayans. What makes us think ours is different? This journey from comfortable urbanite to capable survivalist isn't just one person's paranoid adventure-it's a mirror reflecting our collective vulnerability and a roadmap for reclaiming the self-reliance our ancestors took for granted.