American apocalyptics who express their rejection of issues or changes by choosing to withdraw from American society and await its destruction, armed with tools of both living and conquest. While such groups were exacerbated by Y2K anxieties, their choice of life in a wilderness, individual values over collectivity and a highly personal (small collective) vision of the American dream has clear antecedents in both Utopian and reformist groups. The dilemma in the late twentieth century in fact, was where one went and what one did to survive.