Caitlyn, I really appreciate your articles. Please consider this possibility: Given the levels of repression now coming our way and last ditch efforts of the sociopaths to insanely accumulate even more wealth as a reaction to the declining resources, increasing climate instability, declining surplus energy (see Tim Morgan's website, Surplus Energy Economics, and Tim Watkins' site, Consciousness of Sheep), soil depletion, mass extinction, etc., based on their assumption that wealth, social status and political power solve all personal problems, it is really time to ABANDON politics and political reform, centralized government and (attempts to rein in) multinational corporations, and INSTEAD begin forming small communities for self-support and sufficiency - communes, extended families, new "monasteries," as occurred after the fall of the Roman Empire. Advocacy of this new form of "break-away civilization," small enclaves with goals besides self-help and survival of preserving arts, music, literature, scientific learning, mathematics, skills such as weaving, pottery, etc. etc., leaving our current model behind as much as possible to self-destruct (where it is headed by design anyway), may be the most helpful and hopeful thing we can do at this point.
Caitlyn, I really appreciate your articles. Please consider this possibility: Given the levels of repression now coming our way and last ditch efforts of the sociopaths to insanely accumulate even more wealth as a reaction to the declining resources, increasing climate instability, declining surplus energy (see Tim Morgan's website, Surplus Energy Economics, and Tim Watkins' site, Consciousness of Sheep), soil depletion, mass extinction, etc., based on their assumption that wealth, social status and political power solve all personal problems, it is really time to ABANDON politics and political reform, centralized government and (attempts to rein in) multinational corporations, and INSTEAD begin forming small communities for self-support and sufficiency - communes, extended families, new "monasteries," as occurred after the fall of the Roman Empire. Advocacy of this new form of "break-away civilization," small enclaves with goals besides self-help and survival of preserving arts, music, literature, scientific learning, mathematics, skills such as weaving, pottery, etc. etc., leaving our current model behind as much as possible to self-destruct (where it is headed by design anyway), may be the most helpful and hopeful thing we can do at this point.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/08/nicole-foss-the-boundaries-and-future-of-solution-space/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/america-loves-the-idea-of-family-farms-thats-unfortunate.html
Jeff S
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
– Albert Camus
Thank you. Camus physically went through "an unfree world" with the Nazi occupation of France. He rebelled, he stayed free and taught others how.
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