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comment by JackTheBandit
JackTheBandit  ·  3951 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Could you live 'off the grid'?

I want to say yes, but obviously not without difficulty. The main one being farming. I have the benefit of coming from a Caribbean background. Basically, mother's family had a small farm and I spent time there as a child learning how to work the land and livestock. My father was a cadet on his island as well as a carpenter and taught me lessons from both.

In recent times, I've made friends with someone who lives almost completely off the grid. Time is spent with him trying to understand the lessons taught as a child and put them to use.

There's something about abandoning the comforts of technology that's like a reset button on being human. Intentionally limiting interactions with technology is of some definite benefit. I try to use technology with explicit purpose and not just consumption and entertainment. Doing that, a lot of the technologies we popularly promote dont actually seem useful in terms of accomplishing a task. It may be a case of the tool working the users and not the users working the tool.