Comments: Against Stuff!
Got to emailing with my art director, talking about what would be needed if SHTF, water filtering systems, so forth. It was a non-linear exchange, to be sure. He sez:
"Me, I just want to have stuff people had 100 years ago, or a better modern equivalent. Bottom line doesn't look so bad then."
and I replied:
"Gee, maybe you should join these guys. Find out if they have a local chapter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism "
which got him going (which is what I wanted; he's good when he gets revved up)
"There needs to be a different flavor. Why does every movement arrange itself as opposed to something? How about the happy Luddites that could care less what you do so long as you stay off my front porch? Meanwhile I'll be sure to keep the things from the past that work: stored food, non-treated water, solar powered clothes dryer (a 50 cent line strung in my backyard), and so forth.
"People who worship the golden calf deserve what they get. Empty lives staring at tiny lit up boxes. An iPad cannot grow you a garden, nor catch you a fish. When the battery runs down you can throw it at someone or prop open the back door.
"What is needed is balance, introspection, lack of ego, shunning vanity, humility, and grace. Appreciation. Luddites don't have any more of these than some Apple freak - Subaru - toe hair - hippie, nor some slicked-up graphics hipster with every gadget imaginable. Humans are like raccoons picking up shiny objects. Luddites just think very little of other humans. More like misanthropes."
Posted by chasmatic at September 28, 2014 11:41 PM