[This is from my latest book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] You don’t necessarily need to have a written plan before you start building something, but ideally you should have a general idea of what you are planning to do and what the end product should look like!
This is one of the underlying reasons we came to live here in la France profonde, armed with our copy of John Seymour (aka 'big boys book of self-sufficiency'; well, big girls too, obviously).
This is a village of around 230 people, with half the houses apparently empty. We've been daydreaming for years now about getting a whole load of anarchist/creative/artist/artisan types to come in and occupy all these houses. We would soon outnumber the locals. Except that kind of thing needs a start-up fund - we'd need things like solar panels on all the roofs. But we have noticed how pretty much everyone here grows their own. We have a lot of forest around here as well so everyone seems to also have wood-burners.
But I totally agree about a simple first step is to grow your own. It's one of the most spiritually satisfying feelings, and quite revelatory, in a way. Having schoolchildren learning how to grow food should be on the curriculum. No prizes for understanding why the bad guys don't do that.
Well, now that I mention all of that, given that it's spring and the weather is clement, I really should stop sitting in front of this digital cage and go and, excuse my Anglo-Saxon (and don't tell the neighbours - they're French), fuck some shit into our veggie patches, followed by some seeding...
Well said, prisoner 1141183891920!
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This is one of the underlying reasons we came to live here in la France profonde, armed with our copy of John Seymour (aka 'big boys book of self-sufficiency'; well, big girls too, obviously).
This is a village of around 230 people, with half the houses apparently empty. We've been daydreaming for years now about getting a whole load of anarchist/creative/artist/artisan types to come in and occupy all these houses. We would soon outnumber the locals. Except that kind of thing needs a start-up fund - we'd need things like solar panels on all the roofs. But we have noticed how pretty much everyone here grows their own. We have a lot of forest around here as well so everyone seems to also have wood-burners.
But I totally agree about a simple first step is to grow your own. It's one of the most spiritually satisfying feelings, and quite revelatory, in a way. Having schoolchildren learning how to grow food should be on the curriculum. No prizes for understanding why the bad guys don't do that.
Well, now that I mention all of that, given that it's spring and the weather is clement, I really should stop sitting in front of this digital cage and go and, excuse my Anglo-Saxon (and don't tell the neighbours - they're French), fuck some shit into our veggie patches, followed by some seeding...
Would this be outside the digital frame work? Otherwise we might be living out a role that is a valid one but is still part of the game.