Current Events > Do you ever fantasize about ditching society and living off the land?

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Just up in a cabin is Alsaska or something.

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That sounds awful to me. I'm an introvert and a shut-in by nature, but I like modern technology.

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Having helped out in PR for hurricane Maria: It's really boring not having electricity.

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like, monthly

I dunno why you'd ever pick a place where it's really hard to grow anything and have a proper farm though lol

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PMarth2002 posted...

That sounds awful to me. I'm an introvert and a shut-in by nature, but I like modern technology.

it's something you have to experience to understand. Being part of nature makes you feel fulfilled. Modern life is very surface level

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I think about this quite often. Im quite fine with the thought of no more electricity. I'm content resigning myself to books for the extent of entertainment. Maybe not permanently, but I think I can go a few years without electricity. I'll actually be going camping for a bit over a month so who knows, maybe that will change my attitude.
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Colorahdo posted...

it's something you have to experience to understand. Being part of nature makes you feel fulfilled.

No it doesn't. Its relaxing for awhile if the view is nice, then I get bored.

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PMarth2002 posted...

No it doesn't. Its relaxing for awhile if the view is nice, then I get bored.

Going for a hike is not being a part of nature

living off the land with no amenities makes you feel a part of it. The pace of life changes. You're able to predict the weather. You see how everything works together. You gotta be out there for weeks or months

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kirbymuncher posted...

like, monthly

I dunno why you'd ever pick a place where it's really hard to grow anything and have a proper farm though lol

It's got a culture of people who do that for a reason. It's got the frontier appeal.

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Nope.

Plus, the government doesn't want people being too self-sufficient anyway. Today's farmers know that better than anybody.

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Nope. The Army and all the stupid FTX I took part in killed any notion I previously held that roughing it in nature could be fun.

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Anprim gang.

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No, but sometimes I fantasize about just driving out west (I live on the east coast), and living a more nomadic style just working odd jobs in random places for food and shelter.

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The land doesn't have video games.

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Colorahdo posted...

Going for a hike is not being a part of nature

living off the land with no amenities makes you feel a part of it. The pace of life changes. You're able to predict the weather. You see how everything works together. You gotta be out there for weeks or months

This does not sound even remotely appealing to me. Like at all. Its the no amenities part that I have a problem with. I already live life at a pace i'm comfortable with (okay, my job could move faster, but its paying the bills right now and i'm just there to save up and move next year.

You know what's appealing to me? The internet. The internet has a virtually infinite supply of information, entertainment, and social connection that keeps me content on most days, and incidentally google can show me the weather a week in advance.

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LordRazziel posted...

It's got a culture of people who do that for a reason. It's got the frontier appeal.

it just seems a little backward to me

if I was gonna just disappear somewhere and live off the land I'd pick somewhere much closer to the equator

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I've gone 2 years without a cell phone in modern times (~7 years ago), it was the most peaceful time of my life. I had an iPod touch that received texts but I had to connect to wifi to get it. So if I traveled anywhere, I was prepared in advance, like maps loaded in my iPod. And I was basically using my iPod as a camera. No one could bother me when I was out. It was so nice.

I do dream about it. I don't think I can go without a cellphone anymore for the rest of my life. But I can absolutely live without a TV. I'm a simple man. I would need some whiskey though. I'm perfectly happy sitting in my livingroom, sipping whiskey, and reading a book, or making a sketch, or whatever.

No. I need technology.

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All of the most livable areas have been converted for use by civilization so anywhere thats still open to doing something like that would be a hard time (that is, theres a reason nobody is living there now)

Also people arent mean to live in isolation. I love being part of a family/community/tribe and contributing to those around me, and would lose a sense of purpose just living for myself

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every day and its something iv been working towards for the last 5 years.

Pretty much every time I see a movie or show about it. Then I think about how I like running water, electricity, and ac/heat.


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Ive seen tv shows about living off the land and it sounds awful, one guy was trying to find protein for days and only had a handful of salad greens to eat.

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PMarth2002 posted...

That sounds awful to me. I'm an introvert and a shut-in by nature, but I like modern technology.

This. That would be an extremely boring existence to me. I'd like to more or less exit society, or at least the need to work for an employer, but not go off into the wilderness somewhere.

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yea. constantly since I was a kid, have always just wanted to fuck off as far away from humans and society as possible

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Grew up on a farm.

No.

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I fantasize being taken away from this planet by a friendly alien civilization and they treat me like a vip guest on their world.

Then I get to travel space with these guys and meet other races but never back with earth because we are actually the most dangerous species.


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I usually fantasize about ditching everyone I know and going somewhere else where I'd probably never run into them, but not ditching the entire society lol

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PMarth2002 posted...

That sounds awful to me. I'm an introvert and a shut-in by nature, but I like modern technology.

Essentially this. I have thought about living a more quiet life, but there are many modern amenities I wouldn't be comfortable giving up.
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All of you claiming that you would love this would not be happy after a week or a month, and thats if you do not have anything go wrong like lack of certain food, drinkable water, and medical supplies.

This is not even taking into account when you get sick, if you get injured, or wind up having to deal with a predatory animal like a bear, wolf, snake, etc.

Instead of going to an extreme change your current life to be less stressful, disconnect your phone/tablet/ etc and relax.

Live off the land will lose its novelty and romantic look real fast if you actually experience that shit.

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When I make alot of money and retire, I won't live off the land but I cna see myself having a farm

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

All of you claiming that you would love this would not be happy after a week or a month, and thats if you do not have anything go wrong like lack of certain food, drinkable water, and medical supplies.

This is not even taking into account when you get sick, if you get injured, or wind up having to deal with a predatory animal like a bear, wolf, snake, etc.

Instead of going to an extreme change your current life to be less stressful, disconnect your phone/tablet/ etc and relax.

Live off the land will lose its novelty and romantic look real fast if you actually experience that shit.

That's why I said fantasize.

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