From: R. Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 22:34:36 MDT
Lonelyness
lack of social feedback and novel stimili
lack of emergent information
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 8:32 PM
Subject: RE: LUDDISM: "Good Life" debunked
> Mitch wrote
>
> Mike Lorrey wrote
>
> <<Joly and his wife live in Jamaica, Vermont, in an off-grid homestead of
> 20 acres. They heat their home with wood and grow much of their food.
> They still find that his wife must work a full time job as a teacher in
> order to make ends meet. "It just isn't possible to homestead with the
> template the Nearings presented, because they never addressed the issue
> of income," Joly explains.>>
>
> A lot is hidden in the phrase "to make ends meet".
> Now even the American Indians found their standard
> of living to be greatly enhanced by steel knives
> that almost never wore out, and other "high-tech"
> accouterments.
>
> So suppose that you purchased a lifetime's supply
> of such non-perishables, and took to living on the
> land (somehow free of government interference).
>
> Besides electricity and dentistry, what are the worst
> drawbacks to living in the wilds today?
>
> Lee
>
>
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