Why Most People Will Never Be Self-reliant

senorcoconut in #hive-150329 • 2 years ago

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Freedom and Self-reliance

So we just ame back from a "self-reliance" festival... I'm not really sure why I put that in quotes like that. It really was about self-reliance!

Overall it was super inspiring, we listened to people talk about all sorts of things from Backyard Soil Building, Composting overview and Methods to How to do a local threat assessment and Area Study for emergency preparedness and community security planning.

There were talks on food preservation, natural building, making or distilling for fuel with demonstrations. All with a decent amount of time for Q and A.

The majority of people who were there were already homesteading or well on their way to braking away from the life they hate to one they actually want to live! That was nice to see everyone there really being into that lifestyle.

Doomsday Preppers

For me, there was a little too much of the militant doomsday prepper element. There's nothing wrong with that, because there is a load of great information to collect for everyone's preparedness planning. Do you know you neighbors by name? Do you know who is into what, or who may be a threat when suit hits the fan? What about the nearest hospital or the quickest rout out of your area if need be?

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There's a lot to take in, but all those people have something of great importance to teach for anyone looking to be better off when something goes wrong.

Inspiring Takeaways

This was not a doomsday prepper festival, there were people of all walks of life who had one thing in common, and that was living as free as we can in this society. Weather that's done through living on the cheap with all sorts of passive off-grid systems to lower bills or making arrangements with your neighbors to help each other when shit goes down... it's all about the same thing!

What was most inspiring for me was the encouragements to start monetizing your skills. And getting out of the rat race by finding and growing a network of like minded individuals.

We are homesteading on a small scale, and we're constantly growing and opening up new income streams, but our network has stopped growing so that's something we have to work on. I also want to make a greater effort making our home more energy efficient.

See I told you I was inspired by this festival!!!!

Most will not become self-reliant

That's right, the bulk of people online and everywhere other than these festivals will never find the time and energy it takes to get off the grid and become the type of human that isn't reliant on the fragile establishment that is holding the bull of this circus.

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So here are some reasons why people will never achieve self-reliance, it show they don't really want it:

It takes a lot of work and dedication
It's very daunting
Normies will judge you
Loved ones may not understand
Feeling alone
Feeling week
Fear of failure

I mean the list can go on for days... I think you get my drift. It's really all the same reasons people don't chase their dream of any kind.

Conclusion

Get out of your comfort zone, and go to meet-up, festivals, or whatever you wanna call them... go and seek out your tribe. Ko matter what you want in life, no matter how much you may think your philosophy is unique you will find others who like the things you like.

I walked away from this thing rejuvenated with fresh ideas to work on, and new ways to be more effective with reaching our goals.

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2 years ago in #hive-150329 by senorcoconut

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kinganny 2 years ago

A beautiful piece. An interesting brief on self-reliance

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senorcoconut 2 years ago

Thank you.

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diggndeeper.com 2 years ago

I believe we are going to be seeing a growing divide between those that will and those that will not. I mean that in a lot of different ways, but self-reliance and community building is certainly one of them.

There are amazing people doing things humans have never had the ability to do before with the tools we have now, and those people are accelerating. The others a maybe decelerating and the chasm will continue to grow, imo.

I'm not sure there is much to do for those that won't, other than help the few that do change their ways.

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senorcoconut 2 years ago

Those that will and those that will not.... I'm not sure those that don't will be able to be saved. I mean that in a way where the world goes on with so much devide. Those of us growing in a direction of self-reliance may be too busy sustaining one another at a certain point.

If they show no effort what so ever to male their lives better, after a while all I can do is give up

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diggndeeper.com 2 years ago

I pretty much agree. I don't think its worth working too hard to convince others that they should do more for themselves or to do the right thing.

When and if they decide to make the change, plenty of us will be here for them, but they better be prepared to add value.

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erh.germany last year

It is a paradox. You can't get out of civilisation. You simply can't. There is no gap, it is rather a mutual condition. The gap is purely mental. The off-grid person can only go off the grid because the employee goes to work so that the products that are needed as a self-supporter can be mass-produced through external supply (solar technology, batteries, etc.). So the city dweller/worker supplies the so-called dropout. Those who cannot or do not want to do it themselves support those who want to. But those who want to are dependent on the fact that there are those who do not want to or cannot.

So I would say that there is no one who is faster or slower, but a field within which things are mutually dependent. One does not work without the other. Neither is therefore superior/inferior to the other, but simply a fact of difference and contrast.

Since I am one of those who in all probability will not go off the grid, nothing needs to be done for me. I help myself. But in other ways, of which there are plenty ;)

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builderofcastles 2 years ago

Your list of reasons why most people will never be self-reliant is correct, however it does not get to the cores, the real reasons their is very little motivation to become self-reliant.

Normalcy hates you: You are a doomer. You are a conspiracy theorist. Oh, is the sky falling chicken little? You really have to go against most social programming
Things are made to get in your way. Cars, stuff, things, everything at wallymart gets less and less easy to repair. You don't get something you can fix, you get something that will break on you when you most need it. The world seems designed to be against the self-reliant.
Most of the things you can do to be self reliant, do not pay the tax bill. Making that little bit of cash used to be extremely hard. Out in the middle of nowhere, the people around you had very little cash, so there was no easy way to raise money to pay things that require money. However, the internetz have made this a lot easier with gig economies showing up everywhere.
You will never get a girl. Telling her you are an investment banker, and the women are all over you. Tell her you are a farmer, and you only get a small section of women who will even want that. (but of course, the women who want that are better women)
And the feeling alone... well, in the future, communities will come together, and self-reliance will be the name of the game. But getting to that time seems to be a very lonely journey.

I have thought of going to the Self-Reliance Festival or something Spirko puts on, but i know most of what the speakers talk about. But how do you get to be known that you are on that level, when you are not very good at communicating? You seem like an upstart. Jack calls you an f*in kook.

I am glad that you went, and i really hope you enjoyed it.

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senorcoconut 2 years ago

Excellent point here. I especially love the bit about normalcy hating you and the one about things being made to be in your way. It's so true.

Tell me about it... and the taxes too, I'm doing this homesteading thing in New York state so I know about taxes and the price of getting grid!!!

But as you read here I feel like you, I mostly know what the speakers had to talk about, but still I did enjoy myself there, and I went with my wife who also is into this stuff.

Thanks for that comment.

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builderofcastles 2 years ago

You got a wife that is into this stuff! That is so lucky.

The death of many a man, who could have escaped, will be, "I don't want chickens, i want handbags".

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senorcoconut 2 years ago

And I feel very lucky for that reason!!! She still gets handbags tho 😁

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takhar 2 years ago

Becoming self reliant is indeed a really daunting task. What I've come to realise is that in the beginning there's seemingly an unending obstacles to overcome. It's like over dependency has become part of our nature and ingrained in our deepest beliefs about life.

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senorcoconut 2 years ago

Ingrained in our deepest beliefs for sure! Most can't even imagine it is possible to get off that dependence.

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takhar 2 years ago

Indeed! There are totally asleep to their dependence and the problem it will bring them.

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erh.germany last year

As I see it, no one from the self-sufficiency faction could put their plans into action if it were not for the others, the non-self-sufficiency faction.

For a self-sufficiency lifestyle, you need a house and a piece of land. Capital that you have from somewhere. The source of the money has either been your employment or a speculative opportunity - also built into the system - of money multiplication or accumulation. This platform here is part of the system because it works through electricity supply and internet access.

The tools to create a permaculture landscape, for example, cannot be mastered without modern methods and technologies if you want to be off the grid (solar panels or generators, for example, which are products of mass production). The self-suppliers are a minority and they cannot become the majority, otherwise regression would have to happen. That would be dangerous for everyone, including the self-suppliers.

Since your thesis that most will not be is correct, I would disagree with the undertone that it sounds like (and also in the comments) as if we are talking about people to be divided - i.e. those who are good and those who are not.

If you are too pleased with what you think you are doing right, you forget that others who do not leave their zones do not automatically do it wrong. I would say that a mutual conditionality reveals itself here.

To put it bluntly, the lifestyle of the self-sufficient is possible precisely because so few put it into practice. And then, if you examine the term more closely, it is also not entirely correct because none of these people are really self-sufficient, since everyone needs at least an access route, a road, to get holdof the necessities of life such as gasoline, salt, sugar, flour and many other things. A person who does not have to make a trip to town/to the shop in order to survive lives outside of civilisation and then probably belongs to a species that is hardly ever found on this globe (exceptions prove the rule).

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