February 19, 2005

Nothingness: a lifestyle? Musician finds success as a successful bum, and writing about it. (via Lew Rockwell)

It sounds good in theory.

posted by dxlifer 19 years ago
  • I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I hoped it could be.
  • How To Drop Out <--this guy's dead serious about it though.
  • thank you both, dxlifer and hikikomori, for thought-provoking articles.
  • I'm slowly learning wilderness survival -- which is iffy since wilderness itself is not surviving. Good line from hikikomori's site. Thank you.
  • Great link, dxlifer, and especially hikikomori. We are pretty far in the process of getting out of the city and off the grid, so this hits home.
  • Glad you liked to link, folks. Here's How to Live in Your Car for those serious about leaving the rat race behind. I'm planning to try this out during the coming summer. Hope I live to tell about it. :)
  • I think the person who wrote the article linked by hikikomori makes some very interesting and compelling points, but then goes at the end (especially Appendix 1) and spoils it with needless moralizing and showing a seriously flawed sense of both history and, more dangerously, epidemiology. And I was so rooting for him, too, for seeming rather even-handed up until that point.
  • I never had to go through a stage where I realized that our whole society is insane -- I've known that as long as I can remember. Well, at least he got to the 2nd sentence before he became incredibly pompous....
  • My wife and I have been IM'ing about this... the guy's front page has a lot of ranting and anti-technology, but the newer LandBlog seems a lot more balanced. I am wondering whether his values shifted a bit.
  • Understanding the unimportance of possessions is very admirable, but this doesn't seem so much about that as learning to ignore the pressure to strive for dreams that other people think we should have. The filthy critic had a much more amusing rant about this recently, IMHO (but I am just coarse that way).
  • fuchuptitude What a great word! And so little use. I'm going to add that one to my vocabulary. I'm also an advocate of the simple life, although it's a constant battle when there's two pack-rats in the house. *motivation to purge household hits...*
  • Heh. My respect for lewrockwell.com just shot up a couple notches. I mean, the article's pretty much there just to tweak libertarians, right?
  • dx: DON'T do it! If you purge your household, what will you do with the bodies? Just do a yard sale instead.
  • No one will ever find the bodies. *nasty grin*