<p>The folks who are learning medieval peasant skills *and* fostering community? They're legit prepping. The folks fetishizing guns or building bunkers or compounds or 19th century American Colonialism outposts? 100% cosplay.</p><p>If it depends on functioning civilization (and all the Little House On The Prairie style peppers 100% depend on functioning civilization, because the reality underpinning that fiction did too) and ignores community it's just cosplay.</p>
