It doesn't. It says that once you've built a proper community, you've built "the grid." You're not living "off grid." That's like the whole point of the article

It doesn't. It says that once you've built a proper community, you've built "the grid." You're not living "off grid." That's like the whole point of the article. You're never going to make it on your own. Like it or not, we're all in this together. And it's pretty clearly aimed at the folks that don't think they need anybody else to make it.