So lately I’ve been thinking about the necessity of organization and the building of community. As much as I love this online community it has serious flaws. Most importantly its reliance on government run telecommunications. If we were to step outside the boundaries of acceptable counter culture we could easily and swiftly be cut off from one another. On the other hand if we manage to not piss the man off that much and the world DOES end then where does that leave most of us? I know that I personally have no primitive skills and if the world ended tomorrow I’d be as good as dead like most civvies. In realizing this I firmly believe that an ultimate goal of this online community should be to organize without the use of the internet. Or more simply put for us all to live together. This would allow for those in need of primitive skills to learn them. This would also make our community stronger I believe because we would be living together. Most important though I think would be the mere fact that we would need nothing accept our own voices to communicate. I believe this to be a necessary step of this community if most of us wish to survive the collapse. Also I believe it to be more practical as far as working together without the government watching our every move with their finger on the button waiting to ban the site and thus return most of us to our otherwise isolated existences. Divide and conquer will work very effectively on us as it stands now.
Now I know that this is highly ambitious, but I forewarn that I’m a very idealistic and ambitious person. I also think that as ambitious as it is my points hold relevance and truth.
This is the idea behind Willem’s “Rewilding Havens.”
http://www.rewild.info/conversations/index.php?topic=1206.0
and my “rewild camps”
http://www.rewild.info/conversations/index.php?topic=444.0
mod edit: fixed broken link (Rebecca)
My apologies. Feel free to delete this thread.