Thanks everyone for your feedback. I’m still trying to wrap my head around why the site has made me feel uncomfortable for a while…
My number one reason why I don’t care to hear about the economic/energy collapse because I don’t care. It has little to do with actual rewilding. Those events in themselves don’t signify the collapse of civilization, just a mini-collapse. I plan to rewild whether the collapse intensifies more in my lifetime or not. The collapse, while convenient to rewilding in someways and inconvenient in others has little bearing on my choice to rewild. Civilization enslaves us, I want to break free of that, regardless of collapse. These events definitely inform me on decisions I should make regarding rewilding, so I see there place… however, I feel they attract a certain “doomer” type of person to this site and it feels kinda swamped with that energy now. It takes away from the real discussions about rewilding that I want to have happening here. It feels like these discussions, because they take away from rewilding discussions on a forum about rewilding, re-define rewilding as a doom and gloom community. Rewilding is not about the abuse in and around the prison, it’s about the escape plan and the escape and the building something new. This is my story at least and how I feel here. I don’t mind having them here, but I think I may move them to the humanure bucket. Make sense to me; composting the collapsing culture? Might be a more appropriate place to put them. I don’t know.
I also have to say that all these discussions about various civilized religions bore the shit out of me. This makes me irritated because I feel like most of the conversations we had here in the first year were all really constructive/on the same page kinds of conversations. I feel like maybe the defending of this or that civilized religion reflects mostly people un-willingness to let go of and perhaps lack of researching the domesticating actions of those religions. I also recognize that myths change to reflect the environment so as collapse intensifies those myths may incorporate an animist world view. However, I don’t know if this site is the place to talk about that? I mean, there is a special sub-culture of Rock and Roll called Christian Rock… and I don’t listen to it. I don’t know if I want those religions conversations to dominate the forum…? Again, it all feels like it takes away from the real skills of rewilding; providing the cultural tools to create social networks of rewilding. Again I see that if you want to convince a christian that their religion “really” mean something else about rewilding, that’s fine. But to me rewilding isn’t about philosophically convincing someone about the ills of domestication; it’s about showing them. It’s about connecting to people (regardless of religion) on a human level. It’s about connecting to the land on an animal level. A language older than words has more power than words. You know? I feel like we were really on a roll with some of those social tools here in the beginning and it sort of dropped off at some point. This makes me sad. I want to make space for all these other topics, but I want to shift the focus back to these non-denominational, non-doomer, cultural tools.