Future

zoomer tourist owned epic style by landchads

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The world is so big I want to see. Literal translation of chinese characters to english as a caption. Anime girl holding sack of possessions on shoulder waving bye to the viewer with a stern face

It is currently eight in the morning and another bright sunny day in central Mexico on the second floor of my aunt’s apartment overlooking the town while I wait for my jet-lagged family to wake up. I am scribbling this on a quaint grade school notebook that cost eleven pesos at the corner bodega, as well as with a mechanical pencil I bought for 400 yen in Osaka the year before (peak globalism). All that said, here are a few takeaways from my trip so far.

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music for simple living

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old white male farmer looking at his computer screen confused at finding a city slicker on farmersonly.com

What is the role of music in a simple life - a life, say, in the countryside with the nearest pocket of more than 200 people at least a half hour away, without a big box store in sight?

Let’s, for the sake of cohesion, define a simple life as a life as free of technique as possible (technique in the sense Ellul1 laid out - any series of means that are established to achieve an end as efficiently as possible), then simple, traditional music is preferred.

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peak innawoods tech

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electric guitar with really badly put together body of wooden slabs jutting out every which way

I was in a prepper mood, and began to think about what I would and wouldn’t be able to use after the collapse of civilization. Here is a non-exaustive table with some of the more drastic changes I can imagine, in no particular order. The headers refer to Kaczynsky’s [video] delineation of technology - left column being that which depends on a service grid or intricate parts that cannot be sourced by any one individual, and the right column being the opposite.

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children and the internet

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Jesus, who is labelled “anime titties” is intervening between two business men in suits and acting as their liaison, who are in turn labelled “me, an innocent kid” and “the internet”

How do I straddle the fine line between shielding my future children from the degeneracy of civilization while at the same time, allowing them to learn from trial and error and reap the artisic benefits of music and the arts? What is my responsibility as father and creator? I relate a lot to God the father in that aspect - I cannot force my children to walk the good path nor expect them to fully see the merit in doing so until much later in life when they decide to embark on the same journey of being a good role model. Being accountable to my future offspring has really forced me to clean up my act and think longer term as to what I choose to spend my time doing.

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