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 Originally Posted by Salty Off-Grid
LOL. Here is another thing I hope they have in Oregon... PSYCHIATRY
Defensiveness is not just a river in Egypt.
Salty
I'm sorry, I JUST had to register after you made this snappy comeback.
WIN, I literally laughed out loud after reading your come back! 
Before I registered I also had gone to a couple of your blogs, and read the whole "Surviving Off Off-Grid" book, well what you have written so far. I've personally been looking to doing the "off off" gird, and although I find a some of your views a bit extreme and "preachy"(I believe in living off the land, but not because some god tells me to).
Actually I find that most off off griders tend to use the fear total sociality collapse as a prime motivator, which I find ironic since one of the things your wrote about is that we are slave to our fears(M.I.C.E.). Whats wrong with promoting living "off off" gird living simply as a different, more independent, and in many ways better and healthier lifestyle, which has many pros(and cons).
I don't know, perhaps its just my ideology that their is nothing wrong with living with/surrounded by technology. Like you said, I am one of those people who see *most* technology as being morally neutral. The problem I see in our current social climate of the past 100 or so years is not the technology, but rather the fact that we've slowly given up our rights, slowly become more and more dependent on the "grid" of JIT food, shelter, and supplies. My opinion is this, its the dependency on the JIT "grid" which is the problem, not our technology(though I agree there is alot of pointless tech out there that removes us from the world, rather than allows us more time in it).
Anyways, that's just a little of my personal beliefs and rant on the matter. I enjoyed reading your review(and blogs), and while I don't see eye to eye on many of your opinions(on your blog, not the review), at least I can we can agree on this, getting away from dependency on the grid, becoming "doers", instead of the “do as you’re told” consumer culture, is the right direction to be looking in.
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