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Originally Posted by FrontSight
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What is the difference in meaning or implication between "survivalist" and [he] who can survive in the wild?
FrontSight
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The difference is the "wacko factor". Survivalists are the folks that stockpile food, ammo, and associated material to deal with all real and imagined disasters. A person who can survive in the wild deals with material he usually carries on his person and that he(she) can find available in the area into which they are introduced or thrusted which now requires them to use means with which to satisfy the requirements to sustain life and carry on to accomplish the task/mission that placed them in the situation. We survive by "stockpiling knowledge" and developing necessary skill sets which will allow us to deal with the realities of the enemy, weather and terrain. Survivalists don't deal with realities but paranoia, fiction, mis-guided emotions, and are more akin to rabid sheep being guided by a charasmatic leader who creates the fictions to which his misquided flock subscribes.