I’m thinking about trying to join an intentional community to learn the ropes of farm and homestead skills but especially learning the hardest skill of being a member of a horizontally organized democratic community (and all the mundane and not fun aspects involved). Maybe after a year or two of that, if I still have a taste for it, I might try to start my own somewhere. We’re all we’ve got and I think just trying to survive 3°+ warming in the next couple of decades is gonna be really nasty.
How bout you?
you know, for all you farming fans, there is a civilization on the other side of the planet that is much older and bigger than ours that has spent the last 2200 years with the primary focus of maintaining a centralized bureaucracy that can organize mass grain cultivation. even after the apocalypse, division of labor is still your best bet.
I have been treating organizing (specifically communist party building with a focus on community organizing) like it has been a full time job. It is the only way to give working people a chance to oppose ecofascism. The only way for the planet to survive is for capitalism to end, but you can organize while learning the the skills you will need to help survive the future. They aren’t mutually exclusive, quite the contrary. And as you organize it also builds a community around you, which will be the actual key to survival. So far it has worked, and I went from no leftist community around me to organizing with many dozens of people constantly
Statistically speaking I’ll probably die
I can’t survive without modern medecine
