A powerful post. I will be following him now too if only because I fall into the camp of collaboration and passing survival lessons along. I am aware as I write these words, though, that I carry within me a strong almost instinctive impulse to dig in and hide and protect-- to hunker down. I don’t and won’t obey it but I understand where it comes from. This is making me think hard about a topic that I grapple with often -- the ways some of us seek and avoid community or social ties throughout our lives. I hope to be able to articulate my thoughts on that as well as you’ve articulated your thoughts in this post.
Survival is in learning how to learn, and learning survival activities: hunting, gathering, plant identification (probably want to know that before gathering!), constructing structures with found objects (or making materials from natural things), weather pattern and climate tracking, developing relationships and learning how to communicate and how to function in a hierarchy (there will need to be one, and if you're familiar with Ken Wilbur's Integral Theory, you know that there will be one)... having a paid guard is not going to help you in the apocalypse, because they will have nowhere to spend the money you are paying them. If we've learned nothing from this pandemania, hopefully we've learned that isolation is just as, if not more harmful than an actual virus.
commune - a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities - that's my hole for mankind.
Thanks for getting into this subject matter. Not easy. If collaboration was easy we would not be in this state.
A powerful post. I will be following him now too if only because I fall into the camp of collaboration and passing survival lessons along. I am aware as I write these words, though, that I carry within me a strong almost instinctive impulse to dig in and hide and protect-- to hunker down. I don’t and won’t obey it but I understand where it comes from. This is making me think hard about a topic that I grapple with often -- the ways some of us seek and avoid community or social ties throughout our lives. I hope to be able to articulate my thoughts on that as well as you’ve articulated your thoughts in this post.
Survival is in learning how to learn, and learning survival activities: hunting, gathering, plant identification (probably want to know that before gathering!), constructing structures with found objects (or making materials from natural things), weather pattern and climate tracking, developing relationships and learning how to communicate and how to function in a hierarchy (there will need to be one, and if you're familiar with Ken Wilbur's Integral Theory, you know that there will be one)... having a paid guard is not going to help you in the apocalypse, because they will have nowhere to spend the money you are paying them. If we've learned nothing from this pandemania, hopefully we've learned that isolation is just as, if not more harmful than an actual virus.
You are so right it's about getting away from the rest of us