Love this article! I have a picture of the whole earth catalogue in my phone, saw it in a museum once, liked it so much. What I find striking is the obviousness with which technical solutions are being embraced, without reflection, contemplation... do we really need this? In this sense I believe we need more philosophy in our current society. Thank you!
This is lovely. And it brings me back. When I was young I grew up along a forested coastline. I spent my childhood preparing and growing food for long unforgiving winters. Power was not always available so we had a wood stove. Dad did work 2 hours away but it meant we spent a lot of time either preparing things in the home or running around the woods with friends.
I left for the city when I entered high school. I had this mindset that we didn’t make a lot of money and we must live the way we do because we were broke. I’ve been in the city ever since and it’s still a strange thing. The basic home repair a kills I have from growing up require a “specialist” in these parts. Really basic mundane things like sitting on the floor impress people here.
I work in education, and part of me wishes I knew how to take that skill and bring it into the countryside. Build my small home. Have a good system of give-and-take. I’m figuring it out a day at a time.
Tech is supposed to be convenient, like vending machines in japan. But some see the opportunity and make it invasive, then stuff a vending machine in your restroom.
This really resonates with me. Thank you for sharing. I have two E.F. Schumacher books within arms reach that are long overdue a read. But first I'm off to sharpen an axe for purely wholesome reasons.
This was 100% great theory, but I'd like to see some practical applications of it. Our modern infrastructure supports modern living, not the lifestyle promoted in this article. I'd love to embrace it, but where to begin, and how to grow such a movement against the current of modern society?
While in complete agreement with the thesis, and having lived and worked on a family ranch haying, milking, feeding, slaughtering, etc., knowing the value of the tasks performed in a rural environment, the focus of climate hoax is disappointing. It’s all nonsense. The 97%, per a Forbes review, is 1.6%. Our search for superhabitable planets for the future is a search for planets 5 degrees C warmer than earth as less extreme weather and greater crop land productivity result. Land downwind from wind farms is 1.5 degrees warmer than when wind is allowed to pass over it without being robbed of its energy by bird cuisinarts killing tens of thousands of migratory “protected” birds. It’s all nonsense.
“We only need to fear being replaced by robots, if we live like robots.” I like your refreshing take on AI. Super read, thanks!
Love this article! I have a picture of the whole earth catalogue in my phone, saw it in a museum once, liked it so much. What I find striking is the obviousness with which technical solutions are being embraced, without reflection, contemplation... do we really need this? In this sense I believe we need more philosophy in our current society. Thank you!
I agree with you on the need for more philosophy. The whole earth catalogue archive is accessible online here https://wholeearth.info/
Very interesting read, I've been thinking about this way of living for a while now. Love it!
Very interesting read and echoes what I’ve been thinking but never articulated as well as you have here. Thank you.
What a piece, thansk for sharing it!
This is lovely. And it brings me back. When I was young I grew up along a forested coastline. I spent my childhood preparing and growing food for long unforgiving winters. Power was not always available so we had a wood stove. Dad did work 2 hours away but it meant we spent a lot of time either preparing things in the home or running around the woods with friends.
I left for the city when I entered high school. I had this mindset that we didn’t make a lot of money and we must live the way we do because we were broke. I’ve been in the city ever since and it’s still a strange thing. The basic home repair a kills I have from growing up require a “specialist” in these parts. Really basic mundane things like sitting on the floor impress people here.
I work in education, and part of me wishes I knew how to take that skill and bring it into the countryside. Build my small home. Have a good system of give-and-take. I’m figuring it out a day at a time.
Tech is supposed to be convenient, like vending machines in japan. But some see the opportunity and make it invasive, then stuff a vending machine in your restroom.
This really resonates with me. Thank you for sharing. I have two E.F. Schumacher books within arms reach that are long overdue a read. But first I'm off to sharpen an axe for purely wholesome reasons.
This was 100% great theory, but I'd like to see some practical applications of it. Our modern infrastructure supports modern living, not the lifestyle promoted in this article. I'd love to embrace it, but where to begin, and how to grow such a movement against the current of modern society?
While in complete agreement with the thesis, and having lived and worked on a family ranch haying, milking, feeding, slaughtering, etc., knowing the value of the tasks performed in a rural environment, the focus of climate hoax is disappointing. It’s all nonsense. The 97%, per a Forbes review, is 1.6%. Our search for superhabitable planets for the future is a search for planets 5 degrees C warmer than earth as less extreme weather and greater crop land productivity result. Land downwind from wind farms is 1.5 degrees warmer than when wind is allowed to pass over it without being robbed of its energy by bird cuisinarts killing tens of thousands of migratory “protected” birds. It’s all nonsense.