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OftenBen  ·  3095 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Favourite "Three Kinds of People in the World" Quotations. What Are Yours?

    Can you imagine? I dream of retiring tomorrow and building a log cabin on land I own.

Me too, lets start a club. Only very mildly joking about that. My career is interesting, and I plan on doing lots of good for a fair few people over the course of it. But it really is just the best way I can think of to fund my dreams of living on the side of a mountain somewhere.





user-inactivated  ·  3095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you read the Foxfire books? They were a project that a high school history class did in the 70s which asked all the older people in the area about their rural childhood. This place was still pretty rural so in reality what they got was how the hell the world used to work before modern technology made it what it is today. The first book covers "Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining, and Other Affairs of Plain Living". It is the instruction manual for restarting society. Combine with the Open Source Ecology Project and you got a stew going baby.

OftenBen  ·  3095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I know what I'm doing this winter.

Thanks for the resources!

user-inactivated  ·  3095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm gonna retire asap and go on cargo cruises, you're both welcome to tag along.