Thank you B🙏 (I will do underlining on Medium😉). I have also the same problem with most of the people I try to talk about these issues with. They seem to think that there is a choice between going towards low-tech and maintaining the current way of living. I agree with you that there is no maintaing the current way of living but the choice is how and when we will properly start to work the transision. For my part I will try to find myself to such a place where I can start to learn how to live a low tech life now when things are not totally going crazy. Maybe I have learned enough to teach others when there is no longer any choice. One important and difficult thing is that I cannot do this on my own as an ”individual lifestyle choice”. Low tech future will require a communal way of living and my current challenge is how to find such people and communities.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. This is very similar to mine: small scale gardening, learning how to grow food, composting, repairing things at home and extending their lifecycle, and at the same time being fully aware when things go south, much more will be needed: as you said, a community where people willing to help and support each other. I do hope though - seeing how people actually react to local emergencies (not how its depicted in movies) - that those communities will come together out of sheer necessity.
The people who are attacking you are looking for a way to keep on living the only way they know. They are afraid of what you are explaining. Thanks to JMG I became aware of these ideas when I was very young. It has meant not growing up with an idea of a techno future eco or otherwise. I am comfortable with reality and I appreciate that you are doing that work for others now. Please try and remember that there are folks who hear you and that your message changes them. I didn’t understand how different my assumptions were until a decade after reading The Arch Druid Report. So in case you don’t hear it. You are certainly making a difference even if you don’t hear about it.
Well put! A few years ago we began a lower tech lifestyle in rural Philippines. Things I feel are super important are find your elders (people that still remember all these old skills and can teach you), love love love your neighbours, even if you don’t agree with their lifestyles/farming choices they may one day be reliant on you and vice versa and your biggest allies, and community community community. There’s far too much to learn on your own, the skills needed to survive in a low tech world are many and too much for individuals. We will need to lean on others and they will need to lean on us. There’s no way forward with our individualistic lifestyles.
Great essay, new subscriber, I don’t often read this sort of stuff anymore but will keep an eye out for any new essays from you. Cheers!
Thank you B🙏 (I will do underlining on Medium😉). I have also the same problem with most of the people I try to talk about these issues with. They seem to think that there is a choice between going towards low-tech and maintaining the current way of living. I agree with you that there is no maintaing the current way of living but the choice is how and when we will properly start to work the transision. For my part I will try to find myself to such a place where I can start to learn how to live a low tech life now when things are not totally going crazy. Maybe I have learned enough to teach others when there is no longer any choice. One important and difficult thing is that I cannot do this on my own as an ”individual lifestyle choice”. Low tech future will require a communal way of living and my current challenge is how to find such people and communities.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. This is very similar to mine: small scale gardening, learning how to grow food, composting, repairing things at home and extending their lifecycle, and at the same time being fully aware when things go south, much more will be needed: as you said, a community where people willing to help and support each other. I do hope though - seeing how people actually react to local emergencies (not how its depicted in movies) - that those communities will come together out of sheer necessity.
The people who are attacking you are looking for a way to keep on living the only way they know. They are afraid of what you are explaining. Thanks to JMG I became aware of these ideas when I was very young. It has meant not growing up with an idea of a techno future eco or otherwise. I am comfortable with reality and I appreciate that you are doing that work for others now. Please try and remember that there are folks who hear you and that your message changes them. I didn’t understand how different my assumptions were until a decade after reading The Arch Druid Report. So in case you don’t hear it. You are certainly making a difference even if you don’t hear about it.
Thank you very much, your words mean a lot to me.
Well put! A few years ago we began a lower tech lifestyle in rural Philippines. Things I feel are super important are find your elders (people that still remember all these old skills and can teach you), love love love your neighbours, even if you don’t agree with their lifestyles/farming choices they may one day be reliant on you and vice versa and your biggest allies, and community community community. There’s far too much to learn on your own, the skills needed to survive in a low tech world are many and too much for individuals. We will need to lean on others and they will need to lean on us. There’s no way forward with our individualistic lifestyles.
Great essay, new subscriber, I don’t often read this sort of stuff anymore but will keep an eye out for any new essays from you. Cheers!
Thank you and all the best in your efforts re-creating a sustainable lifestyle. Cheers!
This is the solution - I doubt anyone will like it.
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220