My Homesteading Journey

A few months ago I moved to a beautiful piece of land to begin emancipating myself from the industrial system. Immediately I set to work planting my gardens, which are now producing much more food than I can keep up with eating. My hens lay plenty of eggs, and there is a river running through

The Function of Psychiatry in Industrial Society

The psychiatric industry plays a very important role in the modern world. Industrialized nations have an incredibly high rate of suicide, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, copious mood disorders and ‘personality disorders’, etc. Within those nations, just being in an urban area doubles the rate of schizophrenia. For a deeper dive into some of the ways in

Communities Are Being Destroyed

Our ‘communities’ are under siege and have been for a long time. During the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, congress passed the CARES Act as the first stimulus bill for the duration of the pandemic. Most outlets who reported on what was included in this bill at the time said that

Total Survival Prep for Before and After Collapse

Collapse is not mere speculation. It is a matter of when and how. Collapse warranting prep doesn’t have to be the one big apocalyptic event, although total collapse of the system is coming. There will likely be varying degrees of collapse in different areas of the world leading up to the collapse of the whole

The Many Delusions of Transhumanists

The idea of a coming technological utopia in which humans upload their minds into a machine to live forever conquering the universe or living in an immortal video game is a popular fantasy held by many technophiles. It is an appealing idea that may serve to help people cope with their anxieties about the future

Capitalism vs Communism is Mostly a False-Conflict

There is hardly a person alive or dead who has not been exposed to the passionate ideological conflict that has raged proper for the past century and a half, most of whom have taken a strong stance regardless of their familiarity with the particular details of either economic system. This war is hardly surprising as

Civilization is Unhealthy

There exists today an incredibly warped conception in the minds of the modern civilian about what life was like for the nomadic hunter-gatherers of the pre-civilized world and those who still exist today. Much of this is descended from the cultural effect of those European men who first ‘contacted’ the peoples of the Americas and

Misanthropy: An Analysis

In the previous post, we mentioned how a dedicated analysis of misanthropy is due. Misanthropy is generally defined as a dislike of humanity as a whole – that is to say that the misanthrope judges the net value of humans as negative. A misanthrope will look at the state of the world and conclude that,

But People Will Just Industrialize Again, Right?

This is perhaps the most common point of contention that people who are not well-read in techno-skeptic literature will give as to why they do not see a point in revolution. This is even a common point made by people who are techno-skeptics, but are not interested or have any faith in revolution against the