The unidentifiable beauty of a social society

Modern day life is a struggle, a rat race towards a marker in the future. For some that moment in time on the horizon represents the start of another social life as an “elderly citizen”, for some that marker is set way to far, and they'll never reach that intended change. The lucky ones are fortunate to have an early pension. For a few that means a worry-less period, for others a time in which they have to learn to actually live with themselves. The smart ones set their marker at a nearby distance, so they can keep an eye on it all the time.  The brave put there marker a few steps upfront, know to enjoy the moment and know how to separate the important reasons for being human with the surmised promises made by the ones that pull the strings. Often the rat race goes all the way to the finish line, the one to arrive first loses, end of the game.

Call it foolish, call it brave but some are stepping out. They're taking that risk full decision of throwing away the markers and chose to jump into an uncertain adventure. The species of brave are growing rapidly as are the species of fools. The financial crisis forced a lot of people in the USA to live in campers and caravans, sometimes even worse. But they're not letting the ruthlessness of a sick society bring them down and made living in a “tiny” home to a culture. It takes some character to act like if it was a volitional choice. Like a commercial beverage brand, the idea is spreading around the world. A small group, idealistically living “off grid”, are seen as the pioneers of a new, maybe better, world. The consequences of a self Suffusion style of living is hardly spending any money, therefor not paying much taxes, with the ultimate outcome that gouvernments in Europe are already in the process of making solar-power, wind and all other “alternative” energy subject to taxation and restricting laws. There's obvious no space for all to follow, the world would simply be to small. All countries in the world are in dept, to whom, nobody can explain without giving in to the fact that it's all a big illusion, fabricated by a few elite with the help of some one's and zero's in a virtual world wide machinery of greed and lust for power. State-pensions, healthcare, infrastructure, social welfare and so many other favorable results of a carefully build social system are already under stress. The poor pay little, the rich even less into the maintenance of our civilized society.

The current form, in which our citizenship is shaped is far from ideal. Political influence seems to be depending on the amount of whispering money instead of the numbers of people amending, shouting or protesting. Still, the anarchy and chaos, unwittingly connected with living outside or next to the conditioned system, would throw us back a few hundred years. That doesn't have to be a bad outcome, as long as men could live with the consequences. The strong, the healthy, the smart, the corrupt, the criminal would survive. The hungry, weak, sick, and handicapt would have to rely on the goodness of the strong or merger in to a group to survive, which brings us back to modern society with some kind of political system, some kind of gouvernment, some kind of common interests. Using alternative energy, living in an energy neutral house, growing your own food, doesn't mean life get's cheaper or easier, in the contrary, it would have to make you pay more towards the social system, not by item, service or income related taxes, but just for breathing on this earth. If the human race would have assumed this quality of sharing and caring during evolution, nature could take it's course. Modern days prove that's not the case.

Is the world doomed? Yes, but it will take some time before we, the people, converted this planet into hell. On a local scale we should be able to maintain our humanity, help the needy around us, comfort the sick and educate our children to be a better generation. Fighting the windmills, hiding from the molochs, defeating the darkness that's been injected in our minds since the invention of newspapers, radio and television. Since the forces behind all the illusive lies, killed our curiosity, flooded our brains with games, talentshows, lottery's and false images of what happiness is all about, made us in to consuming sheep, wanting better and bigger than our neighbour.

Living big in a tiny house, off-grid, away from all that is evil. It would do it for me, but than, I'm just a childless, halfway to everywhere wandering, middle aged, sometimes egocentric, mostly ironic and column writing, loving husband.