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Gabriel's avatar

I've been chewing on a pretty hot take that a majority of the "normies" see what we see but they just choose different priorities. It's why you'll often hear them say "why do you get yourself down with all that stuff?" The point isn't that they disagree with observations, it's that they prioritize living well with how things are, rather than trying to resolve problems. This can be defensible if it truly is out of our hands, but my criticism would be that a lot more is within our power to fix than many people believe.

I don't have a pulse on people "inviting themselves" to other people's places, but at minimum I would find it rude without a pre-existing cooperative relationship.

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Fantastic observation. I live on land in northern Michigan, and while I am not fully off the grid, I could stick in a woodstove, and a handpump and probably make it on fish and game and a garden in a pinch, going to enjoy the techno toys while they last. Anyway point is, is it looks like I may get a couple of sets of visitors this summer as well as family that comes up, many people I think know our system is brittle and on edge, a dying empire even, perhaps.

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