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it is not about living in NYC vs Mexican jungle. it is about living in Mexican jungle with or without gangsters/politicians/police. who knows, maybe we should t

• rdtsc 10y ago
  Sorry, I did diverge from the topic at hand. I didn't respond directly to the article but rather, the GP's comment made me remember something from a show I saw a while ago. So I wasn't talking specifically about Cheran but rather about the idea of how it might be nice to live a simple life like they do, and that often the simple part might be not as simple.
  • shitgoose 10y ago
    - you are right, GP digressed first - our lives may not look that "sophisticated" to someone who travels to Monaco in private plane on a whim; all our "sophistication" is only in our heads - generally speaking, i was amazed how defensive most people in this thread became, when they faced the fact that somewhere really far away in Mexican jungle some people dared to chose to live without gangsters/police/politicians; people here are almost offended by that possibility and started coming up with poorly designed straw man arguments (like GP) just to take attention away from the subject
    • rdtsc 10y ago
      > i was amazed how defensive most people in this thread became, I should have prefaced it with that I really admire what they did. When we protest in the West we go out and draw large sign and march in front of the White House. Then we go home to our warm beds. Or we write angry messages on the internet from the comfort of our own homes. I think what these people did is the real form of protest.
      • shitgoose 10y ago
        "what these people did is the real form of protest" yes! and personally i would say, that they returned to normal.