So the financial crisis has some "lefty-artsy" university types stockpiling food?

Instapundit thinks we may be seeing the merger of economic panic and the mainstreaming of survivalism.

I think the lefty-artsy university types should be buying bottles of champagne and celebrating, because the crisis -- if it really is at the panic-y, food-stockpiling level -- will drastically cut back consumption, fighting huge, intractable problems that they dreamed of solving through regulation: global warming, mass obesity, crass materialism, suburban sprawl...

What does it take to make these people happy? They're addicted to gloom! Even vast economic collapse won't satisfy them.