Today we're going to be talking about communities, the benefits of a very large, wide,

undefined community, and the specific benefits of a much smaller and very clearly defined community,

both in regular everyday life, but also emergencies.

Welcome to another T-RX talk.

We've talked about community quite a bit in the past, but it's been a while since we had a episode on community itself.

And generally speaking, we've been talking about two separate things and not always really defining what they are. One is the gun community, just this bigger, wider blob of people who appreciate guns, or maybe they appreciate

the Second Amendment, hopefully they appreciate both, and they just kind of follow one another on

Instagram and YouTube and are generally aware of various similar things and have

cultural overlap. We've also talked about the idea of building smaller communities, communities

that are local and people can look after one another and meet each other's needs in other

ways. So, for example, we've also talked a little bit about alternative

economies. So here in Hickman County, there are a number of small alternative economies that

exist, little farmers markets and things like that, so that if you would like to extract

yourself from the larger, massive, centralized, processed food economy, there are ways to do that.

You can buy grass-fed beef directly from local farmers.

And a lot of us that are listening to this podcast and part of this larger gun community

probably really like the idea of small communities that offer these decentralized

economies, where you can go to local folks to get stuff as opposed to being a part of a

gigantic bloated system. It's not that hard to buy bootleg, totally illegal raw milk.

It's not that hard to pull your kids out of the giant government school

system, but there are things that are a little bit trickier. Let's talk about some edge cases.

Now, a statement that I've made in the past that will continue to be true is that edge cases don't

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