"One response to all of this is to say to hell with it and try to go back to the land" - yeah, it's a romantic and in some ways admirable idea. But the last time it was seriously tried in America (1970s), it mostly failed, because people discovered that agricultural work is HARD and not romantic at all. They also discovered that severing their connections with the modern economy was neither feasible nor desirable.
No one can live off grid. It is an ideological individualist effacement of the factual interconnection of all life on earth in all its manifestations. A childish notion akin to believing no one can see you if you place a blindfold on. All living beings exist ‘in’ a grid.
"One response to all of this is to say to hell with it and try to go back to the land" - yeah, it's a romantic and in some ways admirable idea. But the last time it was seriously tried in America (1970s), it mostly failed, because people discovered that agricultural work is HARD and not romantic at all. They also discovered that severing their connections with the modern economy was neither feasible nor desirable.
No one can live off grid. It is an ideological individualist effacement of the factual interconnection of all life on earth in all its manifestations. A childish notion akin to believing no one can see you if you place a blindfold on. All living beings exist ‘in’ a grid.