Nov 17, 2023·edited Nov 17, 2023Liked by William Hunter Duncan
Spot on. Misery attracts misery. We need to elevate ourselves. Nourish our souls with art and beauty.
Years ago I visited the Doomstead Diner. But i was always put off my the countenance of the people there.
They did look like trolls.
Which reminds me of something JMG said, words to the effect of, if someone's life looks like a dumpster fire then their philosophy is probably not a useful one to follow.
Well, my immediate reaction to Francis's post was, ya, tmi! I was surprised I read the whole thing ( I was about to delete when she noted she is 71, and being 70 i continued)
But hearing so much from a victim perspective i feel is really detrimental. Had to sing along with my gratitude playlist after that.
I could only read about the first 250 words the first time. I ended up reading the whole after I considered including it here, just to make sure she wasn't profiling someone else's story.
People really need to get a grip on happiness. It truly is a state of being.
Unless you have a hardened, hidden bunker to go hide in or part of a tight-knit rural community, an apocalyptic scenario has very long odds of survivability. It was part of why I walked away from the Prepper community. Not to say stocking up on guns, food, ammo, and gear is not bad just be realistic about your ability to defend those items. Acquire some useful skills.
Was the chainsaw a bad gas issue? Current gas really gums up small engines. I had to soak the carb for my weed trimmer in seafoam for a week before I could get it to start. Lesson learned was stabil is your friend.
I might have added a bit too much oil last fall to some gas, so that might be the issue. But now with fresh gas and oil. it is running well. As for the prepper community, great if it is a small town somewhere in the mountains, or there is a plan of many people to come together in a compound. Though, as JMG has said, if the four horseman of the apocalypse come riding up to your door, offer them some homebrew.
Yeah, precision is important in the 4:1 mixes. May many trees meet your chainsaw.
Selco's articles are a good example of what a slow decay is like. He was stuck in one of those Yugoslavian cities when shit got real. The guy that knew how to make kerosene made out. Anarcho-tyrarrany is the order of the day! Coming soon to American cities near you?!
Bought a small manual milling tool. I am going to try to mill lumber from the woods to make a deer stand.
Anarcho-tyranny is most definitely an issue in liberal American cities. Minneapolis and St Paul are well on that way. I have a post related to that in the works about our State capital St Paul.
I live on the outskirts of Baltimore. I use a climber stand and crossbow. Guns rrr bad, mmmkay?!
Social commentary is always welcome. I like to find what we face in common. Chris Bray, in LA, gets beaten up with the trannie crap. Here in Maryland, we get beaten with the racism stick. Murderers literally spend less than 4 years in jail. Gangs of yuths on dirt bikes roam the city like a scene out "Escape from New York."
Even in rural MN I hear the only guys who get the punitive treatment are white drunk drivers. And I just had a job interview where the second question was, why do you think some people are low income? I gave 4 answers that made them smile (and are true) but I did not offer the fifth, LAF. Or the sixth, that modernity breeds unemployables.
Questions designed to catch the bad thinkers or at least the stupid ones.
Class warfare isn't hard to learn and I love subverting the system against itself. I recently had a issue at work where veterans were sidelined for a DEI fest; needless to say that went over like a lead balloon. The management scrambling that occurred was hilarious. A video conference was organized that was a total disaster when the main speaker called out a couple people that worked for him as jerks. Talk about cringeworthy.
Nov 19, 2023·edited Nov 19, 2023Liked by William Hunter Duncan
I used to watch the TV show Preppers for the sheer entertainment value. My favorite was this woman in Florida stockpiling packages of paper towels. Hilarious when she ran a drill and realized she couldn't get all those paper towel rolls into her inflatable kayak to travel down the intercoastal canal to her bugout location.
I restacked this. It's so good: "The Law of Happiness is stated simply: Happiness is a decision we face in every moment of our lives. Happiness or sadness or whatever is not due to something that happens to us, it is about how we react to what happens to us, how we think about it." Struggling right now to get my mother to stop endlessly doom spiraling.
Frances and Pasheen are very dear Subs I follow same as you. I love them but fear for them.The obstinacy I engaged with is now tinged with despair. FFS.
I'm not sure I totally understand your comment. But it does seem to me too much focus on evil does breed despair. I can only focus on evil periodically, for my own peace of mind, but also because I want my readers to be happy, not angry and sad all the time.
I had totally forgot about Guy. We interviewed him a time or two I think. Hadn't thought a word about him since about 2014. I think back then he was saying we would all be dead by now. I quit paying attention to him after he and his people made a film about the apocalypse, everybody moping around complaining, if they weren't killing themselves. Polite, yes. He looks like he hasn't aged a bit. Otherwise I have found him to be morbid and extraordinarily bleak.
Sounded familiar. I just poked around his website. He and Guy seem of a piece.
I seem to have a particular distaste for materialist catastrophists. It is imminent death for all life on earth unless humanity does as I say. It is not very attractive, or accurate I think. They leave no place for magic or the divine, which is to say, their view is empty of depth and of full context. It is like the mirror of those who claim according to the Bible or whatever, that the world is going to end on this date, and then the date passes and life is mostly as it was, but they don't change and just extend the date.
He is a believer in NTHE (Near Term Human Extinction). According to him, it's the reason he lives on an island with some other families, and devotes most of his time restoring the habitat of that place. Like you, he walks the talk. Unlike you, he doesn't believe in human survival.
Materialism is the basis for recognizing ecological overshoot. Magical thinking is what the human species is susceptible to. That's why there are people who believe that 8+ billion people can continue to live a high energy lifestyle. The Earth is limitless!
Making short term predictions is a fool's errand, but writing about a decline that lasts centuries, as John Michael Greer does, is equally and unnecessarily alarmist. In 120 years everyone alive today will be dead, as well as a good chunk of the next 2 generations. From that perspective, ecological overshoot is no longer a tragedy. It took place too slowly for anyone to notice - other than historians.
I've become familiar with many characters in the Doomasphere, from Nate Hagens to Gary Inmendham. As well as Michael Dowd, who passed away recently. Like the 'freedom movement' they have diverse perspectives, and backgrounds. For me, listening to them was time well spent. Through their interviews, they introduced me to academics and scientists working in these fields. Ecological overshoot is not a topic that most people can bear paying attention to, but I seem to be emotionally immune to it. I have a strong stomach for doom, and a weak stomach for actual blood and guts.
Magical thinking effects atheists as much as religious or spiritual people. I'm referring to faith, which is to say, I have a lot more faith in humanity and the creator than the fellows you mentioned.
I am intimately familiar with ecological overshoot, which I consider to be the source of most of the mental and socisl dysfunction we are seeing. But unlike Guy etc, I am more about the immense potential and creativity of decline, keeping one's mind and getting clear about the possibilities, as most people are losing theirs.
Why would overshoot be the source of dysfunction when a majority ignore the subject, or dismiss it as Malthusian?
If you get a Goldilocks decline, not too fast and not too slow, you may get to see some creativity. Otherwise, your romanticized view of humanity will not survive.
Spot on. Misery attracts misery. We need to elevate ourselves. Nourish our souls with art and beauty.
Years ago I visited the Doomstead Diner. But i was always put off my the countenance of the people there.
They did look like trolls.
Which reminds me of something JMG said, words to the effect of, if someone's life looks like a dumpster fire then their philosophy is probably not a useful one to follow.
Art and beauty, yes.
And, I left the DD in part because there is only so much one can retread doom without any real solutions about how to handle/manage/generate change.
Ha, ha, ha! That sounds like classic JMG. It's a good bit of guidance.
Awe Happiness, yes, happiness. Beds look good !
Well, my immediate reaction to Francis's post was, ya, tmi! I was surprised I read the whole thing ( I was about to delete when she noted she is 71, and being 70 i continued)
But hearing so much from a victim perspective i feel is really detrimental. Had to sing along with my gratitude playlist after that.
I could only read about the first 250 words the first time. I ended up reading the whole after I considered including it here, just to make sure she wasn't profiling someone else's story.
You're braver than I. I see TMI and can't even click on it.
People really need to get a grip on happiness. It truly is a state of being.
Unless you have a hardened, hidden bunker to go hide in or part of a tight-knit rural community, an apocalyptic scenario has very long odds of survivability. It was part of why I walked away from the Prepper community. Not to say stocking up on guns, food, ammo, and gear is not bad just be realistic about your ability to defend those items. Acquire some useful skills.
Was the chainsaw a bad gas issue? Current gas really gums up small engines. I had to soak the carb for my weed trimmer in seafoam for a week before I could get it to start. Lesson learned was stabil is your friend.
I might have added a bit too much oil last fall to some gas, so that might be the issue. But now with fresh gas and oil. it is running well. As for the prepper community, great if it is a small town somewhere in the mountains, or there is a plan of many people to come together in a compound. Though, as JMG has said, if the four horseman of the apocalypse come riding up to your door, offer them some homebrew.
Yeah, precision is important in the 4:1 mixes. May many trees meet your chainsaw.
Selco's articles are a good example of what a slow decay is like. He was stuck in one of those Yugoslavian cities when shit got real. The guy that knew how to make kerosene made out. Anarcho-tyrarrany is the order of the day! Coming soon to American cities near you?!
Btw, thank you too about the pledge.
You're welcome! Challenging the spiritual tropes of today is necessary and I also love a beautiful veggie garden and healthy deer harvest.
Heading back out with the muzzleloader after the 24th.
Lucky man. It's all bow hunting for me unless I get on private property or drive a couple hours west or east.
Bought a small manual milling tool. I am going to try to mill lumber from the woods to make a deer stand.
Anarcho-tyranny is most definitely an issue in liberal American cities. Minneapolis and St Paul are well on that way. I have a post related to that in the works about our State capital St Paul.
I live on the outskirts of Baltimore. I use a climber stand and crossbow. Guns rrr bad, mmmkay?!
Social commentary is always welcome. I like to find what we face in common. Chris Bray, in LA, gets beaten up with the trannie crap. Here in Maryland, we get beaten with the racism stick. Murderers literally spend less than 4 years in jail. Gangs of yuths on dirt bikes roam the city like a scene out "Escape from New York."
Even in rural MN I hear the only guys who get the punitive treatment are white drunk drivers. And I just had a job interview where the second question was, why do you think some people are low income? I gave 4 answers that made them smile (and are true) but I did not offer the fifth, LAF. Or the sixth, that modernity breeds unemployables.
Questions designed to catch the bad thinkers or at least the stupid ones.
Class warfare isn't hard to learn and I love subverting the system against itself. I recently had a issue at work where veterans were sidelined for a DEI fest; needless to say that went over like a lead balloon. The management scrambling that occurred was hilarious. A video conference was organized that was a total disaster when the main speaker called out a couple people that worked for him as jerks. Talk about cringeworthy.
I used to watch the TV show Preppers for the sheer entertainment value. My favorite was this woman in Florida stockpiling packages of paper towels. Hilarious when she ran a drill and realized she couldn't get all those paper towel rolls into her inflatable kayak to travel down the intercoastal canal to her bugout location.
I restacked this. It's so good: "The Law of Happiness is stated simply: Happiness is a decision we face in every moment of our lives. Happiness or sadness or whatever is not due to something that happens to us, it is about how we react to what happens to us, how we think about it." Struggling right now to get my mother to stop endlessly doom spiraling.
Frances and Pasheen are very dear Subs I follow same as you. I love them but fear for them.The obstinacy I engaged with is now tinged with despair. FFS.
I'm not sure I totally understand your comment. But it does seem to me too much focus on evil does breed despair. I can only focus on evil periodically, for my own peace of mind, but also because I want my readers to be happy, not angry and sad all the time.
For every RE there is a Guy McPherson, who takes better care of his health, is polite and generally happier.
I had totally forgot about Guy. We interviewed him a time or two I think. Hadn't thought a word about him since about 2014. I think back then he was saying we would all be dead by now. I quit paying attention to him after he and his people made a film about the apocalypse, everybody moping around complaining, if they weren't killing themselves. Polite, yes. He looks like he hasn't aged a bit. Otherwise I have found him to be morbid and extraordinarily bleak.
Are you familiar with Kevin Hester?
Sounded familiar. I just poked around his website. He and Guy seem of a piece.
I seem to have a particular distaste for materialist catastrophists. It is imminent death for all life on earth unless humanity does as I say. It is not very attractive, or accurate I think. They leave no place for magic or the divine, which is to say, their view is empty of depth and of full context. It is like the mirror of those who claim according to the Bible or whatever, that the world is going to end on this date, and then the date passes and life is mostly as it was, but they don't change and just extend the date.
I like Kevin Hester. He's had an interesting life.
https://kevinhester.live/2020/07/19/adventures-in-africa-brushes-with-death-a-love-story/
He is a believer in NTHE (Near Term Human Extinction). According to him, it's the reason he lives on an island with some other families, and devotes most of his time restoring the habitat of that place. Like you, he walks the talk. Unlike you, he doesn't believe in human survival.
Materialism is the basis for recognizing ecological overshoot. Magical thinking is what the human species is susceptible to. That's why there are people who believe that 8+ billion people can continue to live a high energy lifestyle. The Earth is limitless!
Making short term predictions is a fool's errand, but writing about a decline that lasts centuries, as John Michael Greer does, is equally and unnecessarily alarmist. In 120 years everyone alive today will be dead, as well as a good chunk of the next 2 generations. From that perspective, ecological overshoot is no longer a tragedy. It took place too slowly for anyone to notice - other than historians.
I've become familiar with many characters in the Doomasphere, from Nate Hagens to Gary Inmendham. As well as Michael Dowd, who passed away recently. Like the 'freedom movement' they have diverse perspectives, and backgrounds. For me, listening to them was time well spent. Through their interviews, they introduced me to academics and scientists working in these fields. Ecological overshoot is not a topic that most people can bear paying attention to, but I seem to be emotionally immune to it. I have a strong stomach for doom, and a weak stomach for actual blood and guts.
Magical thinking effects atheists as much as religious or spiritual people. I'm referring to faith, which is to say, I have a lot more faith in humanity and the creator than the fellows you mentioned.
I am intimately familiar with ecological overshoot, which I consider to be the source of most of the mental and socisl dysfunction we are seeing. But unlike Guy etc, I am more about the immense potential and creativity of decline, keeping one's mind and getting clear about the possibilities, as most people are losing theirs.
Why would overshoot be the source of dysfunction when a majority ignore the subject, or dismiss it as Malthusian?
If you get a Goldilocks decline, not too fast and not too slow, you may get to see some creativity. Otherwise, your romanticized view of humanity will not survive.