Ugh. There is a girl in the show who looks like Mrs. Piggy.  Nailed it with that metaphor. I got in an argument with someone (I suspect is a fat) elsewhere about this same tone of post. They said "I think you believe working out is true healthiness. you also fail to factor in willpower." This fat fuck seemed to think that willpower could be used as strength. I disabused him of that and closed my response with "If you're already fat and unfit how strong can your willpower be?" He elected not respond after that. I absolutely believe it is an anxiety soothing thing. They stress about things far out side their power and their lives are negatively impacted either by being unintelligent or unhealthy, so they see prepping as a thing that they can do to take control and gain back competence lost in their real life. It's unfortunate they can't see the differences between their real life and their fantasy doomsday life and think...well fuck... why don't I apply this drive, and energy to my real life. I mean if they applied the same dedication and fastidious manner in which they horde shit towards their nutrition, exercise, and generally mastering their lives they would fix the maladies that drive them to prepping and resolve their anxieties with the same effort and energy expenditure but applied to remedying rather than covering shit up. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure or something like that.