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12/19/2006
dropping out and going home
Devin left this comment at Frank Blacks:
"All I really want, in the deepest sense, is to be loved and appreciated for who I really am. I don't want to be lonely. All I really want is to go home.
All I really want is to go home."
That resonates with me so much it gave me goosebumps. That phrase; all I want to do is go home' pretty much sums up everything I do, not just on this blog but EVERYTHING.
Except there isn't a home for me to go to, I'm probably going to have to make one.
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I'm amazed at how sophisticated this dropout discussion has become since it was started almost accidentally by Casemeau.
For a while I've been wondering about gathering together people's droping out stories. They can (and should) range from people who've gone as far as leaving their country to office workers who haven't made a move but have had their head turned upside down by reading something inspiring.
This blog is not the place to do it really, Ran and/or Dan have more control over their sites than I do but maybe an independant site would work too, I don't know.
The idea first came when Casemeau wrote his dropping out story, there's something illuminating about a person's personal experience that no end of advice-giving can duplicate and I find I'm really fascinated by it.
Maybe I should just invite people to send in their stories, I'm scared of starting anything like a project right now, or making a 'thing' out of it, but what do people think - good idea or bad?
06:10 Posted in Big Ideas , Dropping out | Permalink
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There is something edifying in hearing how others have dealt with change, adversity and struggle. It gives us hope. I love to hear stories of how others have transcended this mess we call civilization. I am new to this, so I find the stories quite inspiring. I agree, you should compile them.
Posted by: Frank Black | 12/20/2006
That quote does say it all, it's amazing. It's all anyone wants. You
know, that's it, that's what this is all about. I can't stand people
who claim optimists like me are looking for something impossible, that
we're just naturally a bunch of abusive cunts who won't change.
What does is it mean to look for a loving home and environment, and be
told that it won't happen, that it's not normal anymore? Arrgh.
I think that drop-out story site would be a great idea, I'd consider
putting it as a seperate part under my webspace and domain if that's
what was decided. It's the little details that would either make it
really popular, or crash hard. I can see it being a great resource
with a little fore-thought and planning.
Posted by: Dan | 12/20/2006
Probably it needs to be as decentralised as possible, I'd love it if everyone who has a blog posted their story on their blog the way Casemeau has. I'm planning to wrote something up about myself soon and I'll post up any reader's story that they care to send. I might create a new category for it along the way.
If people do things like that and then Dan, all you would need to do is post links up on your page. I'd probably have a link back to that page somewhere on here too.
Mostly I'm just curious to hear other people's stories - and to gain courage from them too. I'm wary of creating some kind of institution or trying to force it along. If people are keen that's good but if there's no momentum that's fine too.
I've just remembered that there is a section in Ran's forum about dropping out too.
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Just a general note. Dan had trouble posting a comment and emailed it to me to put up. At first I couldn't make it happen either so I put in a different email address and no linking website and it worked. Obviously I am having no trouble posting using my name and neither did Frank.
I can only guess at why this might be but if anyone else is having this problem I suggest you try something similar to what I did with Dan's comment
Posted by: Aaron | 12/20/2006
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
To read the complete article please follow either of these links :
http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=75&func=view&id=68&catid=6
http://www.earthnewswire.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=89&page=viewtopic&t=11
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