Advice to Millenials and those to come from a baby boomer
Posted: Sat 11 Jan 2014, 14:18:10
I thought I would give me two cents to those young millenials and the emerging generations that will be wading through the detritus of what we have done.
I am 56 years old. I have sown my wild oats and am resting now up on top of a mountain. My youthful days of vigor and adventure are mostly behind me. Knowing what I know here is what I would do if I was 25 years old.
I would not have children. I would not bother to follow a professional carreer path. I would live in the cracks, in that delicious open road space, moving from whatever work I could find to volunteering on farms, hiking wilderness trails, being a witness to the decline of industrial civilization, combining this open space migratory journey with seasonal visits to a few settled farms and communities that would have me stay for room and board in exchange for work.
I would be a 21st century wanderer, moving in the cracks of the crumbling paradigm, free and unencumbered by the machine, jobs, wives, husbands, offspring.
It is a warrior path of sorts, partially a sage, sleeping under trees in the mediums of crumbling highways, sharing with those who cross my path the truth of our times.
Single and agile with no relationships and strings attached, greeting the Overshoot Predator and all his wrath when he awakens from his slumber, being ready at any moment to accept death with only my own life on the line and no sorrow or worry about off spring and loved ones who will undulely suffer a fate most likely worst than my own in these early decades ahead.
This is the advice I would give any young person courageous enough to abandon the sinking ship. There will be a generation coming much later on in the 21st century or thereafter, who will construct and pick up the pieces. But for current millenials who will have to pass through the horrible hiccups of a society confronting denial, we are going to have a real roller coaster of instability for several decades. Why even try to integrate into a machine that is doomed.
Why not witness it unencumbered?
I am 56 years old. I have sown my wild oats and am resting now up on top of a mountain. My youthful days of vigor and adventure are mostly behind me. Knowing what I know here is what I would do if I was 25 years old.
I would not have children. I would not bother to follow a professional carreer path. I would live in the cracks, in that delicious open road space, moving from whatever work I could find to volunteering on farms, hiking wilderness trails, being a witness to the decline of industrial civilization, combining this open space migratory journey with seasonal visits to a few settled farms and communities that would have me stay for room and board in exchange for work.
I would be a 21st century wanderer, moving in the cracks of the crumbling paradigm, free and unencumbered by the machine, jobs, wives, husbands, offspring.
It is a warrior path of sorts, partially a sage, sleeping under trees in the mediums of crumbling highways, sharing with those who cross my path the truth of our times.
Single and agile with no relationships and strings attached, greeting the Overshoot Predator and all his wrath when he awakens from his slumber, being ready at any moment to accept death with only my own life on the line and no sorrow or worry about off spring and loved ones who will undulely suffer a fate most likely worst than my own in these early decades ahead.
This is the advice I would give any young person courageous enough to abandon the sinking ship. There will be a generation coming much later on in the 21st century or thereafter, who will construct and pick up the pieces. But for current millenials who will have to pass through the horrible hiccups of a society confronting denial, we are going to have a real roller coaster of instability for several decades. Why even try to integrate into a machine that is doomed.
Why not witness it unencumbered?