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Message Subject I don't want to do anything with my life
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Back in the day in the Americas people weren't struggling to survive. The native indians had access to all the food they could ever eat, there were millions of buffalos, beavers, salmon etc. and only thousands of humans. Very little energy and effort would go into procuring food. This system was self-sustaining and super efficient, as long as people only took from nature what they needed and gave back what they could.

Because of high biodiversity, fatal bacteria and viruses weren't prevalent. Because all food was organic and there weren't any chemicals and other crap in the food, chronic health problems were minimal. The only health risks were infant mortality and accidents like breaking your leg or something.

Then civilization came, and the rest is history. The future technology solution hypothesis is a pipe dream and will never amount to anything. We're pretty much fucked. So yeah, enjoy what you have NOW.
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Is it just me or does anyone else share an absolute longing to experience a life like this?

Well, I know it's not just me cause I have watched 'Fronteir House' and 'Texas Range House' on PBS and saw how the modern day families and individuals took to the Pioneer lifestyle.

They didn't like the hardship and lack of 'things' in the beginning, and probably went into it with a romantic notion of a kind of 'Pioneer Holiday' and most of them were shocked at how much work was involved day to day. But by the end of the show most of them were loving the new lifestyle - having found a wholesome, natural kind of satisfaction from LIVING to work, as opposed to working to live.

It's a bit like watching 'Brat Camp'. Tearaway teens, monsters! do a bit of 'work' in the fresh air and countryside are instantly transformed into calm, seemingly more mature and wise individuals. OK, theres some discipline involved in there too... but the formular seems the same.

Take people out of the rat race and put them into a natural environment, and all the problems and maladies of the modern world are diminished.

If my day consisted of doing 'survival type stuff' hunting, growing veggies, raising chickens and goats, riding horses, gathering wood... etc... within the context of a family unit or a community I've no doubt it would be hard and possibly monotonous (certainly for women) but I wouldn't see it as souless or soul destroying 'work' in the same way as I view an office job!

Work is one thing. But I think what we are really talking about is avoiding slavery.
 
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