Love this! My favorite time is spent in the barn, milking the cow, in the garden planting and harvesting and in the kitchen preparing the harvest. That’s family time with my husband and mother and sometimes my children and grandchild. More people should discover the joy of self sufficiency!
The answer to your first question: heck YES! I can name even more daily examples of the de-humanizing going on with increasing automation. Just for starters, I have often been rebuked when trying to help someone who dropped a full grocery bag, or struggles to open a heavy door, or is experiencing a flat tire. They look at me with only a suspicious stare before they say NO.
It’s an awful change from 30 years ago. Grieve worthy actually.
On the spectrum from the Old Amish to Gen Z, I tend closer to the former. One red line I will not cross is to even consider the use of AI in any words I write. They will be mine, for good or for ill.
The simple life brings peace of mind with far less stress that shortens people's lives. People work all their lives focused on saving for retirement...and die as soon as they retire. I grew up with out any of the gadgets that people have today...and I stopped watching TV almost 50 years ago. I have a land line, no cell phone; avoid all electronics, except my laptop, which has a Harmoni EMF Equilibrium card and another anti-radiation button on it.. We would not have a radiation emitting device like a microwave oven, which destroys the value of food. During fruit season, when our fruit trees are providing abundantly, I primarily eat fruit and some eggs from our chickens. I am not into doing much cooking, because unheated food has more nutrient-value. I am 92 and have been retired for many years. I have time to do a 90 minute non-stop walk daily, sunbathe for 30 minutes, and keep daily records pertaining to my diet, etc. I disconnected from the Internet for over 6 months to catch up on my reading. I had a stack of books sitting there...waiting to be read. I also honed in on my health, because I had an accident last yaar and couldn't walk for over two months. In two months, I didn't gain too much weight, but I put on 4 inches around my waist by sitting. Well, I got back to my walking and the 4 inches are gone; and I am fit again. I am living a very simple stress-free life.
Thank you for this appreciation of life reminder. The coastal fisherman meets Harvard business graduate story is one I tell myself. It's a grounding story. How much is enough ? I see Elon Musk most often smiling; not because of monetary wealth, but because of accomplishment and the untold number of people he has shared that accomplishment with. Not to mention the child so often accompanying him.
I often reflect that digital photography has made me a Lazy Photographer. No need to understand how the camera works, to consider what I’m try to capture and adjust framing, depth of field, exposure……all that used to be at my fingertips and in my muscles. Now I point and tap, knowing that the details can be fine tuned later. It’s a loss. Will I go back to my SLR? Probably not. Makes me sad.
So true. I started with a brownie box camera as a kid. My older cousin who had terrible eyesight issues took up photography as his hobby and mentored me. One had to be careful to frame the pictures and could not take too many because having film processed was costly for a kid. Over the years I got better cameras and looking back at old family albums I saw that I had taken many of the photos.
Currently, I use a Nikon D5600 and can capture birds in flight and freeze frame flowers in a breeze. It also shoots video. I have photo editing software, too. So there are some advantages to modern tech photography. The key is how much you are willing to do for yourself in getting the pictures you need. It has not made me lazy, it has made me learn to work with it and take more chances with what I shoot and how I can edit and change pictures without being destructive to the original shot.
One of the pleasures of living in Ukraine. Sad to say, our market-stall markets are giving way to European-owned supermarkets, with barcodes and prices at checkout somehow greater than what is marked on the shelves. Still operated by people, but unlike the market stalls, not people you know.
Same pleasure can be had almost anywhere in Latin America, especially outside the cities. They still know one another.
Thank you for sharing these insights.They offer opportunities for meaningful refections for many life styles.
Certainly you yourselves are exemplary. You offer valuable information and perspectives to be considered for the community you've developed here. In relevant cases you encourage our participation in fostering beneficial actions. You actively provide valuable contributions to those who need to consider them. For us, you also share relevant details from your homestead experiences.
It does seem to me that all of humanity does benefit from those that find satisfaction and rewards from creating legitimate systems that optimise (in this discussion) the availability of fish for the many who can not fish themselves.
So is a consideration, as we shape our chosen life styles, also furthering our support of those who choose entrepreneurial and political pursuits to better the lives of we the many?
These reflections are appreciated.
Finally have ac for 82°. Am very grateful. Hope you folks and all have viable circumstances during these heat dome experiences.
Human Being. Being is integral to doing. Soul connection is tough to find in "things." Joy happens with connection to many things; art song dance whistling, see the difference? Uh-Ha!
This article is such a glass half empty piece, I feel sorry for the author. Sure, there are many people who submerge themselves in their smartphones and misuse AI. But what about the amazing ability to have so much information at our fingertips, or the connectivity to family and loved ones half way around the world? The passive voice "they are doing this to us" is not how I see humanity.
It pretty much goes back to the technology is a double edged sword thing. We enjoy many of the advances, but with them come the minuses that take away some of our quality of life.
The tech that I really appreciate is email and.texting
When a loved one is deployed over seas these technologies replace the snail mail option. Sadly the snail mail hasbecome less reliable which makes email and texting all the more useful and positive.
Even water which is essential, has the danger of drowning one or over hydrating.
Another wonderful post, you are absolutely on point… it seems as a race, a species we have bought whollus bowlus the myth that doing less is more, indeed when it comes to much of what you cite in your article less is well…. Less, less in terms of defining, honing an individuals abilities, of fine tuning that can only evolve from doing…
We seem to occupy a moment in this time continuum whereby in pursing ease of life we are prepared to surrender individual agency, sovereignty a lot of that which if u dertaken shatpend and defines us..
I have long opined with A.I for example and as a case in point, that it seems our LLM’s in the main just provide a faster turnaround from previous predicated obviously speed, speed of response mainly… in essence the greater risk in over reliance and failing to identify A.I as a adjunct, a tool to use occasionally is that for those who so fail to equate use to occasional, as a resource will dumb themselves down, they will lose the inherent ability to comprehend, to think.
We see evidence of such already, literature professors at such esteemed and venerable ivy leagues as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Duke have collectively come out, voicing and and stated that many of today’s graduates are lucky if they can read to 8/9th grade level let alone comprehend.
The risk being that they will default to the outcomes served up A.I, irrespective whether correct or not, I recall the frustrations with web site development and the corresponding data management, how many likewise can remember times you became frustrated endeavouring to reconcile a position with the party on the other end of the line, that you engaged insisting “ The computer says” a type of “Simon Says”, such did my head in, the waste of time having to educate, explain and attempt such moronic mindset to apply common sense, for many engaged, the computer was all powerful, irrefutable and unable to be challenged, I fear worse to come and such past experiences to be on steroids when A.I is universally adopted, poor thinkers will defer, default, offload decision making to machines THENST stand by such idiocy as if a edict from our creator.. irrefutable.. never ever to be challenged.
We need to understand and never lose sight of the fact LLM’s are only as good, as robust as those programming them, another case in point, given what we know of THIEL and Carp would we trust absolutely everything at face value Palantir throws up? Hardly, not if results thus far are anything to go by… at least many Western governments as despicable and morally bankrupted as they present and we know they to be, have distanced themselves from Palantir, cancelling contracts entered into…
However, occasionally such tech development throws up developers with a modicum of human empathy and morality, take for instance the position widely advised of the developer, owners of ANTHROPIC, cancelled contracts resulting because they staked and made a point of their moral position vs as an example, Palantir, a company prepared it seems to prostitution itself irrespective the consequences, a disturbing reality…
Hardly surprising though when looking into the background and influences of many that have developed A.I, so many it is known were taken under the wing of and received tutelage from none other than arch pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, his influence amongst this subset of tech entrepreneurs and so many others in politics, science, research, economics has and will unless excised cause a great deal of harm and kompromat to humanity… the example of Palantir and ANTHROPIC a case in point…
We must a species always as with everything control our use, being always careful not to over indulge, to become over reliant upon what at face value seems harmless, a benefit compared to the traditional way of doing things.. therein lies the danger the risk, every development a Trojan horse waiting to cut loose and to destroy what remains of individual autonomy and sovereignty…
Thank you as always J.R, your perspective always highly regarded, you have earned such support well and truly, one of the very few truth tellers today…just saying
This is a excellent piece. A guide to living well. and a great collaboration done by Jill Malone, Audio read By Robert Malone, of a cross post article by Jessica Rose (who is one of my favorite people). I call this The handmade life, something my wife and I always worked to do after moving to the country in1974 from Milwaukee, and working for our selves ever since. We learned many skills, wore many hats, learned from our failures and our successes, and made change as we saw it was time to.
Many should benefit from this article as well as your new homesteading book. Positive examples in a world too filled with negatives and fear porn.
Don't pay any attention to Maynard James! The moment you notice him he will be way far between your ears than he is supposed to be.
He said something about Nature not caring what you want, or what is good for you. Well, if you look closely Maynard is a copper miner. He translates monatomic copper through the winery. Furthermore he probably knew that his grandfather's ancestral vine, the seed was in his grandfather's mouth for a few minutes before he sprouted it. Therefore the entire crop holds phytochemistry fashioned to his personal genome.
And if you have ever looked at a copper strip mine, you might see artistic license and gravity conserve the Arizona water for an irrigation system. Supplying the most out of nature that an apparently bare desert has to offer, at a glance.
Let's run that through what I will call a 'simultaneous inverse'.
5,000 years ago there was a family, two half-brothers and a sister - all NEPHALIM meaning that both moms and the Dad (Anu) were about nine feet tall, genetically bred with skeletal growth hormone. As infants they wore a head brace that fashioned very large brainpans. They were genetically engineered geniuses, bred as a medical corp - healing hands. [Funny, I was just noticing the size of Maynard's head...]
Ninkursag, the daughter thought it would be interesting to integrate the genome of a fantastic holistic healing plant (dragons blood) into a new servant class. After thirteen tries, on the fourteenth iteration the new cloning took nicely with Adam and soon too, his mate was integrating monatomic transition metals (manna) into her diet, complimenting the family genome (Abel).
Half-brother Archetype, (ENKE) took a keen liking to Eve and began screwing her, producing Cain.
A court was formed to manage the scientific integrity of this Royal Bloodline. The Imperial Court of the Dragon Sovereignty. It is still in operation today in Budapest, Hungary. Have you ever noticed how many American Presidents are related to one another?
Now you know why, even though a real fire breathing dragon has never actually realized manifest, there is such a strong mythology about him and his gold...
The bit about the robo vacuum...right on. My son and daughter in law got one for my husband and me. All I want is for it to vacuum the kitchen and dining area, but so far I have not been able to restrict its work to those areas. It is also as noisy as the regular vacuum .
Love this! My favorite time is spent in the barn, milking the cow, in the garden planting and harvesting and in the kitchen preparing the harvest. That’s family time with my husband and mother and sometimes my children and grandchild. More people should discover the joy of self sufficiency!
The answer to your first question: heck YES! I can name even more daily examples of the de-humanizing going on with increasing automation. Just for starters, I have often been rebuked when trying to help someone who dropped a full grocery bag, or struggles to open a heavy door, or is experiencing a flat tire. They look at me with only a suspicious stare before they say NO.
It’s an awful change from 30 years ago. Grieve worthy actually.
So true. This is because we have transitioned from a high-trust culture to a low-trust one.
so true!
On the spectrum from the Old Amish to Gen Z, I tend closer to the former. One red line I will not cross is to even consider the use of AI in any words I write. They will be mine, for good or for ill.
The simple life brings peace of mind with far less stress that shortens people's lives. People work all their lives focused on saving for retirement...and die as soon as they retire. I grew up with out any of the gadgets that people have today...and I stopped watching TV almost 50 years ago. I have a land line, no cell phone; avoid all electronics, except my laptop, which has a Harmoni EMF Equilibrium card and another anti-radiation button on it.. We would not have a radiation emitting device like a microwave oven, which destroys the value of food. During fruit season, when our fruit trees are providing abundantly, I primarily eat fruit and some eggs from our chickens. I am not into doing much cooking, because unheated food has more nutrient-value. I am 92 and have been retired for many years. I have time to do a 90 minute non-stop walk daily, sunbathe for 30 minutes, and keep daily records pertaining to my diet, etc. I disconnected from the Internet for over 6 months to catch up on my reading. I had a stack of books sitting there...waiting to be read. I also honed in on my health, because I had an accident last yaar and couldn't walk for over two months. In two months, I didn't gain too much weight, but I put on 4 inches around my waist by sitting. Well, I got back to my walking and the 4 inches are gone; and I am fit again. I am living a very simple stress-free life.
Barbara Charis — you are a role model for us all 🙏👏👍❤️
Thank you!
Thank you for this appreciation of life reminder. The coastal fisherman meets Harvard business graduate story is one I tell myself. It's a grounding story. How much is enough ? I see Elon Musk most often smiling; not because of monetary wealth, but because of accomplishment and the untold number of people he has shared that accomplishment with. Not to mention the child so often accompanying him.
I often reflect that digital photography has made me a Lazy Photographer. No need to understand how the camera works, to consider what I’m try to capture and adjust framing, depth of field, exposure……all that used to be at my fingertips and in my muscles. Now I point and tap, knowing that the details can be fine tuned later. It’s a loss. Will I go back to my SLR? Probably not. Makes me sad.
My daughter has enjoyed tin type photography in past years and is organizing all the materials and chemicals necessary to start it up again.
OMG! CHEMICALS! Clutching my pearls!
Hahahahhaa!!xoxoxo
So true. I started with a brownie box camera as a kid. My older cousin who had terrible eyesight issues took up photography as his hobby and mentored me. One had to be careful to frame the pictures and could not take too many because having film processed was costly for a kid. Over the years I got better cameras and looking back at old family albums I saw that I had taken many of the photos.
Currently, I use a Nikon D5600 and can capture birds in flight and freeze frame flowers in a breeze. It also shoots video. I have photo editing software, too. So there are some advantages to modern tech photography. The key is how much you are willing to do for yourself in getting the pictures you need. It has not made me lazy, it has made me learn to work with it and take more chances with what I shoot and how I can edit and change pictures without being destructive to the original shot.
One of the pleasures of living in Ukraine. Sad to say, our market-stall markets are giving way to European-owned supermarkets, with barcodes and prices at checkout somehow greater than what is marked on the shelves. Still operated by people, but unlike the market stalls, not people you know.
Same pleasure can be had almost anywhere in Latin America, especially outside the cities. They still know one another.
Thank you for sharing these insights.They offer opportunities for meaningful refections for many life styles.
Certainly you yourselves are exemplary. You offer valuable information and perspectives to be considered for the community you've developed here. In relevant cases you encourage our participation in fostering beneficial actions. You actively provide valuable contributions to those who need to consider them. For us, you also share relevant details from your homestead experiences.
It does seem to me that all of humanity does benefit from those that find satisfaction and rewards from creating legitimate systems that optimise (in this discussion) the availability of fish for the many who can not fish themselves.
So is a consideration, as we shape our chosen life styles, also furthering our support of those who choose entrepreneurial and political pursuits to better the lives of we the many?
These reflections are appreciated.
Finally have ac for 82°. Am very grateful. Hope you folks and all have viable circumstances during these heat dome experiences.
Human Being. Being is integral to doing. Soul connection is tough to find in "things." Joy happens with connection to many things; art song dance whistling, see the difference? Uh-Ha!
Good conclusions! I'd summarize as might a Buddhist: "You don't own things; things own you".
This article is such a glass half empty piece, I feel sorry for the author. Sure, there are many people who submerge themselves in their smartphones and misuse AI. But what about the amazing ability to have so much information at our fingertips, or the connectivity to family and loved ones half way around the world? The passive voice "they are doing this to us" is not how I see humanity.
We have agency when we choose to use it.
It pretty much goes back to the technology is a double edged sword thing. We enjoy many of the advances, but with them come the minuses that take away some of our quality of life.
The tech that I really appreciate is email and.texting
When a loved one is deployed over seas these technologies replace the snail mail option. Sadly the snail mail hasbecome less reliable which makes email and texting all the more useful and positive.
Even water which is essential, has the danger of drowning one or over hydrating.
DOING is not far from BEING.
Congratulations JESSICA,
Another wonderful post, you are absolutely on point… it seems as a race, a species we have bought whollus bowlus the myth that doing less is more, indeed when it comes to much of what you cite in your article less is well…. Less, less in terms of defining, honing an individuals abilities, of fine tuning that can only evolve from doing…
We seem to occupy a moment in this time continuum whereby in pursing ease of life we are prepared to surrender individual agency, sovereignty a lot of that which if u dertaken shatpend and defines us..
I have long opined with A.I for example and as a case in point, that it seems our LLM’s in the main just provide a faster turnaround from previous predicated obviously speed, speed of response mainly… in essence the greater risk in over reliance and failing to identify A.I as a adjunct, a tool to use occasionally is that for those who so fail to equate use to occasional, as a resource will dumb themselves down, they will lose the inherent ability to comprehend, to think.
We see evidence of such already, literature professors at such esteemed and venerable ivy leagues as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Duke have collectively come out, voicing and and stated that many of today’s graduates are lucky if they can read to 8/9th grade level let alone comprehend.
The risk being that they will default to the outcomes served up A.I, irrespective whether correct or not, I recall the frustrations with web site development and the corresponding data management, how many likewise can remember times you became frustrated endeavouring to reconcile a position with the party on the other end of the line, that you engaged insisting “ The computer says” a type of “Simon Says”, such did my head in, the waste of time having to educate, explain and attempt such moronic mindset to apply common sense, for many engaged, the computer was all powerful, irrefutable and unable to be challenged, I fear worse to come and such past experiences to be on steroids when A.I is universally adopted, poor thinkers will defer, default, offload decision making to machines THENST stand by such idiocy as if a edict from our creator.. irrefutable.. never ever to be challenged.
We need to understand and never lose sight of the fact LLM’s are only as good, as robust as those programming them, another case in point, given what we know of THIEL and Carp would we trust absolutely everything at face value Palantir throws up? Hardly, not if results thus far are anything to go by… at least many Western governments as despicable and morally bankrupted as they present and we know they to be, have distanced themselves from Palantir, cancelling contracts entered into…
However, occasionally such tech development throws up developers with a modicum of human empathy and morality, take for instance the position widely advised of the developer, owners of ANTHROPIC, cancelled contracts resulting because they staked and made a point of their moral position vs as an example, Palantir, a company prepared it seems to prostitution itself irrespective the consequences, a disturbing reality…
Hardly surprising though when looking into the background and influences of many that have developed A.I, so many it is known were taken under the wing of and received tutelage from none other than arch pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, his influence amongst this subset of tech entrepreneurs and so many others in politics, science, research, economics has and will unless excised cause a great deal of harm and kompromat to humanity… the example of Palantir and ANTHROPIC a case in point…
We must a species always as with everything control our use, being always careful not to over indulge, to become over reliant upon what at face value seems harmless, a benefit compared to the traditional way of doing things.. therein lies the danger the risk, every development a Trojan horse waiting to cut loose and to destroy what remains of individual autonomy and sovereignty…
Thank you as always J.R, your perspective always highly regarded, you have earned such support well and truly, one of the very few truth tellers today…just saying
Kia Kaha (Stay strong) from New Zealand
This is a excellent piece. A guide to living well. and a great collaboration done by Jill Malone, Audio read By Robert Malone, of a cross post article by Jessica Rose (who is one of my favorite people). I call this The handmade life, something my wife and I always worked to do after moving to the country in1974 from Milwaukee, and working for our selves ever since. We learned many skills, wore many hats, learned from our failures and our successes, and made change as we saw it was time to.
Many should benefit from this article as well as your new homesteading book. Positive examples in a world too filled with negatives and fear porn.
Don't pay any attention to Maynard James! The moment you notice him he will be way far between your ears than he is supposed to be.
He said something about Nature not caring what you want, or what is good for you. Well, if you look closely Maynard is a copper miner. He translates monatomic copper through the winery. Furthermore he probably knew that his grandfather's ancestral vine, the seed was in his grandfather's mouth for a few minutes before he sprouted it. Therefore the entire crop holds phytochemistry fashioned to his personal genome.
And if you have ever looked at a copper strip mine, you might see artistic license and gravity conserve the Arizona water for an irrigation system. Supplying the most out of nature that an apparently bare desert has to offer, at a glance.
Let's run that through what I will call a 'simultaneous inverse'.
5,000 years ago there was a family, two half-brothers and a sister - all NEPHALIM meaning that both moms and the Dad (Anu) were about nine feet tall, genetically bred with skeletal growth hormone. As infants they wore a head brace that fashioned very large brainpans. They were genetically engineered geniuses, bred as a medical corp - healing hands. [Funny, I was just noticing the size of Maynard's head...]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/134PUKy29RzZHmNqa4AAk4wYSTq_E5kAl
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TnszdPCNomKh3oMwuzThC0i0PctQOB0-
Ninkursag, the daughter thought it would be interesting to integrate the genome of a fantastic holistic healing plant (dragons blood) into a new servant class. After thirteen tries, on the fourteenth iteration the new cloning took nicely with Adam and soon too, his mate was integrating monatomic transition metals (manna) into her diet, complimenting the family genome (Abel).
Half-brother Archetype, (ENKE) took a keen liking to Eve and began screwing her, producing Cain.
A court was formed to manage the scientific integrity of this Royal Bloodline. The Imperial Court of the Dragon Sovereignty. It is still in operation today in Budapest, Hungary. Have you ever noticed how many American Presidents are related to one another?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10MZpo7Ybfbxw0wAfQOGprTvXVA2izPV3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o98n5cZkmf5PrGsCcktMt1PO3zy8LJEt
Now you know why, even though a real fire breathing dragon has never actually realized manifest, there is such a strong mythology about him and his gold...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p9tgk3U-o5gFeNKUmv0vsLMyBCr00t_F
I am adding curcuminoids and black pepper oil for flair!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TiNn3RAFFG0imTQ_Uw1kMwm8I5EJRRED
Very much in line with writings in”I’ll Take My Stand: Twelve Southerners,” who forecast this 175 years ago.
The bit about the robo vacuum...right on. My son and daughter in law got one for my husband and me. All I want is for it to vacuum the kitchen and dining area, but so far I have not been able to restrict its work to those areas. It is also as noisy as the regular vacuum .