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Your obversations might be true, the cynical bend is offputting. The problem is living 'off grid' is not new. Monasteries have been doing it for a while. Boome
by barrysteve 3y ago
Your obversations might be true, the cynical bend is offputting.
The problem is living 'off grid' is not new. Monasteries have been doing it for a while. Boomers have been doing it for a while. The article drives home a sense of hopelessness about the whole affair.
If a war ever broke out, I'd much prefer to be living in the countryside like a ww2 british mom in a roald dahl novel, than sitting next to the local recruitment office and thirsty government official making "no, sir" a very difficult proposition indeed.
I know ww2 references are basically irrelevant in this day and age, but given the articles bleak outlook, it seems that the Hope of living offgrid in world war 2 and the infinite religious commitment of a Monastery, though difficult, is somehow more realistic and a tonal 'step up' from an American blogger in 2023.
I don't know how that happened, but here we are.
- dagenleg 3y agoWould you never consider actually serving in the army, if the war breaks out?
- danans 3y ago> The problem is living 'off grid' is not new. Monasteries have been doing it for a while To the contrary, monasteries were very often at the nexus of trade, serving as the middle-men between peasants who produced goods and markets in larger cities [1][2]. Monasteries were on every grid available in their day - road, communication, etc. They were even connected to social grids to recruit new monks. 1. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1301/trade-in-medieval-europe https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1301/trade-in-medieval-... 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_yQ0VGuQDo&list=PL5opbjxUR5-1sshs2-ghD0d_LmWO6PZ0O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_yQ0VGuQDo&list=PL5opbjxUR5...
- yencabulator 3y agoMonasteries also had chaplains whose literal job was to interconnect with the outside world. A monastery near a city could have half a dozen chaplains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain
- catlover76 3y ago> Boomers have been doing it for a while. No? Suburbs are "off grid" now? What? lol