Your post got me thinking about the problem and what -- if anything -- we actually can do. So my partner and I recorded a podcast about it. The bees got a mention, as did this article :)
Very cool! That's great that you're doing a podcast too, I lack that ambition haha. I'll throw it into the docket and see if I can find some time for a listen.
Completely agree, I think you've really nailed the problem here. Yes, we can move out of smart cities, yes, we can use bitcoin instead of cash. But ultimately, if the state wants to mandate that every citizen carry a smartphone, and legitimate payment can only be made in digital central currency, than moving out won't work. How will you buy food? How will you pay for utilities? You'll have to construct a whole network of people around you dedicated to also going 'off grid' who are willing to trade, and at that point it becomes easy for the state to identify you as a group and simply shut you down.
And for all those thinking of buying land out in the sticks and going totally self sufficient, my father lives on 5 acres in New Zealand and says he's already seen drones flying around checking out what people have on their land. Have unlicensed chickens or bees? The drones will spot those and the police will be sent in to confiscate.
No, the only long term solution is to overturn the whole sorry globalist mess.
"No, the only long term solution is to overturn the whole sorry globalist mess." - Indeed. Trying to escape from it makes me think of being in Poland in 1939 and if you just run from Krakow to Warsaw you'll be safe. Not so much... I really like the idea of Bitcoin but I think many of the Bitcoin maxis are delusional in their belief of how much their magic internet money will protect them from an increasingly domineering state.
That's incredibly sad to hear about New Zealand. Of course I've been following their descent into fiefdom these past few years, but to hear you need a license for chickens? Is there any area that the government won't touch? That's simply getting out of hand.
Your post got me thinking about the problem and what -- if anything -- we actually can do. So my partner and I recorded a podcast about it. The bees got a mention, as did this article :)
https://howtosurvivetheapocalypse.substack.com/p/can-we-escape-this-technocratic-nightmare#details
Very cool! That's great that you're doing a podcast too, I lack that ambition haha. I'll throw it into the docket and see if I can find some time for a listen.
Completely agree, I think you've really nailed the problem here. Yes, we can move out of smart cities, yes, we can use bitcoin instead of cash. But ultimately, if the state wants to mandate that every citizen carry a smartphone, and legitimate payment can only be made in digital central currency, than moving out won't work. How will you buy food? How will you pay for utilities? You'll have to construct a whole network of people around you dedicated to also going 'off grid' who are willing to trade, and at that point it becomes easy for the state to identify you as a group and simply shut you down.
And for all those thinking of buying land out in the sticks and going totally self sufficient, my father lives on 5 acres in New Zealand and says he's already seen drones flying around checking out what people have on their land. Have unlicensed chickens or bees? The drones will spot those and the police will be sent in to confiscate.
No, the only long term solution is to overturn the whole sorry globalist mess.
"No, the only long term solution is to overturn the whole sorry globalist mess." - Indeed. Trying to escape from it makes me think of being in Poland in 1939 and if you just run from Krakow to Warsaw you'll be safe. Not so much... I really like the idea of Bitcoin but I think many of the Bitcoin maxis are delusional in their belief of how much their magic internet money will protect them from an increasingly domineering state.
That's incredibly sad to hear about New Zealand. Of course I've been following their descent into fiefdom these past few years, but to hear you need a license for chickens? Is there any area that the government won't touch? That's simply getting out of hand.