Y'all, I'm not a Primmie, I'm okay with language and time and that stuff, but I'm seriously skeptical of modernity. I'll take medicine and handwashing and accessibility technologies, but you can have capitalism and consumer electronics and cities and jobs, I don't want that shit anymore.
I didn't apply as a backcountry guide this year and I'm already mourning it. I feel stale. I want to wave my raccoon-dog arms and turn every last suburb back into satoyama.
I know there isn't a unified movement around this stuff, but I desperately want simplicity, unalienated life, face to face community, daily exercise, wide open spaces, and a sleep schedule that lines up with the sun's cycles.
Preferably sans air conditioning. And constant Internet access.
And I wouldn’t mind if, in exchange, every year at Burning Man people were forced to take the following oath:
I swear to restore the earth to the natural state and return to a seasonal rhythm of more than two weeks in the year. I commit to finding time and space to be still in this busy, global world and to create a basic world order wherein every resident has the basics of food, shelter, and warmth. I swear to meet with my neighbors at least once a year and to meet with everyone else whom I might be able to connect with once a year. I pledge to make a yearly effort to meet my animal brethren and to not kill them.
thats gonna be a hard pass from me. like half my neighbors are cops, and all of them are conservatives. like, idk about you but i prefer not getting shot
Y'all, I'm not a Primmie, I'm okay with language and time and that stuff, but I'm seriously skeptical of modernity. I'll take medicine and handwashing and accessibility technologies, but you can have capitalism and consumer electronics and cities and jobs, I don't want that shit anymore.
I didn't apply as a backcountry guide this year and I'm already mourning it. I feel stale. I want to wave my raccoon-dog arms and turn every last suburb back into satoyama.
I know there isn't a unified movement around this stuff, but I desperately want simplicity, unalienated life, face to face community, daily exercise, wide open spaces, and a sleep schedule that lines up with the sun's cycles.
Preferably sans air conditioning. And constant Internet access.
And I wouldn’t mind if, in exchange, every year at Burning Man people were forced to take the following oath:
I swear to restore the earth to the natural state and return to a seasonal rhythm of more than two weeks in the year. I commit to finding time and space to be still in this busy, global world and to create a basic world order wherein every resident has the basics of food, shelter, and warmth. I swear to meet with my neighbors at least once a year and to meet with everyone else whom I might be able to connect with once a year. I pledge to make a yearly effort to meet my animal brethren and to not kill them.
thats gonna be a hard pass from me. like half my neighbors are cops, and all of them are conservatives. like, idk about you but i prefer not getting shot