Re:Living off-grid for almost 80 years
by onecommentman on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:35PM
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Since the US seems to be in a 50 year culture cycle loop, may I recommend for our younger readers to look into the back-to-the-land movement of the early 1970s.
This era had its share of tech advances, but with an underlying ethos and aesthetic of living with nature and self-reliance/small group intentional community. It was co-opted at times by mass media and advertising, but did a decent job in fighting back. It was mostly, almost effortlessly inclusive, sometimes to its detriment. SF is still dealing with the long tail ripples of 1970s hyperinclusivity.
The phrase I remember, from the de facto uniform of sysadmins of the time, was system administrators wore hiking boots because you never knew when a mountain might show up in the computer center. Hypernatural to balance out the hyperartificial of caring for a silicon beast all day.
This era had its share of tech advances, but with an underlying ethos and aesthetic of living with nature and self-reliance/small group intentional community. It was co-opted at times by mass media and advertising, but did a decent job in fighting back. It was mostly, almost effortlessly inclusive, sometimes to its detriment. SF is still dealing with the long tail ripples of 1970s hyperinclusivity.
The phrase I remember, from the de facto uniform of sysadmins of the time, was system administrators wore hiking boots because you never knew when a mountain might show up in the computer center. Hypernatural to balance out the hyperartificial of caring for a silicon beast all day.