[quote=âWildeRix, post:7, topic:228â]It sounds to me like youâre not interested so much in rewilding as in surviving outside of civilization. I think you would be hard pressed to find examples of indigenous people who left the support of their community to live aloneâunless it was for some short-term purpose like a vision quest or to travel to another community. Living without community would be the ultimate form of punishmentâequal to a death sentence. Man belongs to his tribe the same way a bison belongs to its herd.
The thing that sucks is that even though we have a shotty sort of community within civilization, it does not resemble a tribe at all. In the civ, you have some kind of support, but you donât live with the land. Out of the civ on your own, you can live with the land, but you wonât have any community support at all. It then becomes a choice between evils.
But to me rewilding involves more than primitive skills and way more than survival skills. Those things are involved in feral living, but they donât comprise it. I would rather have a sense of community and live in town, learning primitive skills as I go than to deprive myself of everything but the survival aspect of feral life.
In a tribal setting, everyone was constantly surrounded by every aspect of life and every facet of knowledge that the needed to carry on their feral lives. They grew up in community. They were taught to hunt by people who had been hunting all their lives. Same with foraging and wildcrafting and spear-making and animal communication and shelter making. We can only get those things from cold, removed, written sources that were not likely written down by people who have been doing these things all their lives. There is nothing in civilization that begins to compare with what a child of pubescent age would know just from having absorbed in a tribal society. So why do we think we can do what none of them would find feasible: living alone in the wilderness?
Before you head out, I would recommend taking a look at Ran Prieurâs land blog to see what kind of struggles he has encountered in his quest to live with the land.
And whatever you do, I wish you the best of luck and I hope you keep the boards up to date on your adventures as you are able.[/quote]
Well I have two years before I take my trip up North because I am saving up for supplies and a bus ticket. I donât really want to go alone but at the same time I donât want to stay any longer amongst society as I see it getting worse everyday.
It is kinda my hope that in the next two years I can find some individuals who will go with me.
[b]My current thought is like a quote of Rousseau:
" If a man was hard to choose a life of enslavement,servitude and entrapment in comparison to death he would surely choose to die."[/b]
I am basically in the mind set that I have no attention dying a slave material object in the ashes of civilization and if I should die by my own hand of freedom I will die accomplishing all the dreams I have set out for myself.
I have read Ran Prieurâs log many times as he is a personal hero of mine.
Everyone can rest assured that whatever I do I will definately keep my friends in the primitivist movement updated. All of you are my brothers and sisters.
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