For quite some time we were engaged in forewarning folks about the upcoming scamdemic. Then the actual scamdemic. Now we’re moving to the rebuilding of "comm-unity” phase.
For us it will be a move to the countryside. We’ve already worked on the rudiments of growing basics like peppers, onions, garlic and tomatoes. We’ve had small scale success in starting potato and corn. We’ve a good grasp of wine and vine. Once we scale up from the concrete jumble city balcony we will “grow.”
I was born into the rural lifestyle. Always enjoyed it. My wife is pure city. She scopes shoe shops successfully. We’ve spent the last 13 years, or thereabouts, in the world of big tech. I was itchy to move years ago. She lives about 5 minutes walk from her mother. Now mother is mobile too (empty nester).
I always knew things were not “quite right” in terms of how the urban spaces we experienced were designed. They worked great for camera surveillance and shopping. But for living spaces, community spaces, they were flat pack furniture.
Contrasting values of rural exist-endce for my wife are rootlessness and a lack of “things to do.” She is not a wellies and waders shit shoveller. Never will be. My children are different. They’re into the novelty of space and have no expectations to dim the fantasies. A dog! Can we have a dog? I want my own room. This one?
Fo me, there are no wants. I’m aware of the workload. It suits my current frame more than sitting on my arse prosing. The fact that I was right about EveryThing has no value now that it has manifested. The shrill refrain: If you knew back then, why didn’t you tell us!? Truth is a zero sum game. It makes us a problem for the babylonians, their constant bullshit.
We’re now at square one with whoever is left from the shakeup. That is the realpolitik. If you’re a reformed gimp masker or even a reluctant pin cushion for pig Pharma you’ll get the vibe. If you were always on the bleeding edge of pure blood you would have been into organic foods, shortening supply chains, working within a local or barter economy already.
There are a lot of those people, they were ignored. “Setting your stall out ”before” you’re totally dumped off the net works (When did Noah build the ark, Gladys?). We’ve been deplatformed over 300 times (and counting), hosting, banks, job, the works. That’s not the point. It never was. The point was always why did our “scribble” scare them witless, these gaunt preening philanthropic masters of the universe?
Well before the scamdemic we were having knock down drag out slugfests online with gaggles of PhDs, assorted academics and “experts” about the Alinskyite/Elders of Zion/Cultural Marxism shithousery that was CRT, indentity politics and soros feminazi bullshit. That “contra-flow”got us booted. Proles preemptively muted and blocked us to maintain their safespaces. I’d guess many of the jabbed have a curated“feed” full of shit talking PhDs. Ours was always 80% ex Mil and LEOs.
One of the best I’ve seen currently on the main theme (The good, the true, and the beautiful) has been Owen Benjamin. He has it down, in multiple ways. A million youtubers (We’re personally not into YT, but that is beside the point)… have a smattering of knowledge stored away about off grid, prepping, canning, sewing, seeding, roofing, or the million and one things that inspire you.
What are we going to do now? It scans like a retreat, but it’s not. The urban space is fully created by the “beast.” It was never “natural”to me. I used to be a farmer’s son (cattle), outdoor instructor (sailing, kayak, camping), welder, wooden kayak builder, hostel manager, lightweight traveller, trained as a counseller… A lot of my “choices” are baked in. We need to build a place for that kind of stuff. I’m a little rusty after 13 years off, but rattling cobwebs are part of any dust off, aren’t they?
I was posting about this stuff more than ten years ago. It’s not “pimp my ride” moves to the shire. We always had skills. My parents didn’t want us on the land. They liked a big lawn (no joke). My wife didn’t like the rain (in Ireland). And living in the city never required the ability to tack a 60 footer.
If you’re one of the “real” people on our list, now is the moment to reintroduce. Many will not give much of a shit. A few will be genuinely interested in the why?… were we disappeared. We’ve explained.
That’s about it for this one. It’s not about turning back. It’s back to the future. Hop in!
