We all lived on separate self-sustaining farms with no advanced electronics/technology. Just lives where we wake up every morning, do our duties and our chores. Eat food. Then when we’re done working for the day we chat around a fire pit. Maybe smoke some weed or drink some alcohol. There would be no striving on this farm. No will to expand to outside farms. We were all enlightened and lived for the moment. No need for more technology than whatever is needed to help sustain our farm the best way possible. You work to eat. You work to be part of the community. There would still be the inevitable hierarchy in the farms, but they wouldn’t power-trip over it. Would we get bored? Could we do it? Can this be Utopia?
I have thought that we may have to live something like a self sustaing community of individuals someday or in my case I would probably have my own farm growing a specialty crop of exotic fruits in a green house or something simialr that I could trade for some other crops. I always thought farming to be a really easy way to make a really good living because all you need other then the know how is the seeds the sunlight and the rain and of course the proper soil, other people etc…but the main sorce of growing energy is free sunlight.
I’m kind of crazy about urban farming and self-sustaining collectivist neighborhoods, especially in places where society has failed. I think zero striving isn’t likely, though it would be nice, and I definitely wouldn’t nix self-sustaining technology, but a return to a more communal pioneer spirit would be welcome.
My life would be more interesting if I had to work to survive like if I lived back when we were all hunter gatherers and had to build fires to cook and survive the cold and make hunting and working tools so that we could hunt and work , only it has become too convenient for our own good , physically speaking anyway as in not getting the exercise we would if we had to work just to survive ,but not work for money which is real nice but just is getting too convenient and they say we are mostly getting overweight because of this fact. I’m all for having to ride a horse and growing crops and finding something to do besides watching TV all day and night where we are actually just sitting in one place being entertained by some programming that is often interupted by advertisements for our continued conveniences, so that we can sit there more.
I spent a decade living on a mostly self-sustaining farm. Which didn’t produce fruit. Technology and the ability to drive to a supermarket where I could buy mangoes and watermelon made it almost tolerable. Almost.
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Ever had to cut a large lawn full of grass using a grass whip? It sucks. The more tech you have, the more pleasant farming is. Trust me. Technology frees man from drudgery and allows him to pursue enlightment. Unless you like pointless manual labour.
Have you been reading George Orwell? Animal Farm???
That exact idea… yes… and power does corrupt… that was the experiment… I was so upset when Charlie got executed.
I love being a gardener… I am working hard to get enough knowledge to transfer from field work to the green houses and nurseries…
Nature has been throwing some new problems in to the mix… and man is forever throwing the Toxic chem’s in the soil… so it taking more and more tech to get a farm up and going.
I get the wish to return to a simple life… but it’s dirty and back breaking work.
So many farms are going indoor to avoid infestation and other problems.
I LOVE urban farming and I LOVE being able to work with the community gardens and the food bank harvest. I hope it takes off more and becomes more prominent.
I totally support the modern urban farming. But out in the middle of nowhere… cut off…from what I’ve been studying… it’s not really working these days… no man is an island…
I didn’t have a large lawn… it was a good patch of trail edging… my back hurt for days after… it does suck.
Have you ever had to use a hand rototiller? Those suck too… even if it was just a small flower bed… it took hours and hours… and lots of physical pain involved.
How about reality be such that food sustainment isn’t even necessary? It’d be nice if food was just so abundant that we could virtually walk anywhere and there’d be food - in bushes, in trees, sprouting on the ground, etc.
I’d go for a five mile walk away from my home and boom - just as much food. Yeah, that’d be nice. Turn the whole Earth into a thriving haven of food. It’s stupid monopolizing everything into agricultural sectors, but it has to do given that our populations have run consistently out-of-control (procreating more than necessary).
