New Mexico - not California as many believe - have set the trend of alternative habitats. We have invented the Earthship, which is completely off the grid and sustaining. There are others in the state, who came to live a lifestyle where they were not enslaved to big mortgages. They wanted to buy land outright and then build their house as they went. What they found was freedom to a system that needs you to pay and pay, and die in debt.
Perhaps the Indian population, who had been living off the grid for generations, had inspired us. They lived next to the earth not through design, but were borne to it. A majority turned to the arts they made for their daily living - baskets to hold food, pottery to hold water and to cook in, jewelry to adorn themselves and other representational and nonrepresentational art to beautify their homes. They baked their breads in kivas outside their home.
It is not easy to live without the modern conveniences we all have grown accustomed to having. What with advertising and marketing, we need a dishwasher to liberate ourselves, as well as the finest in homes and clothes, toys and cars. Are we liberated in this electronic age? Or, are we sitting in front of televisions dulling our minds during the week, and turning to malls, movies and other devices to entertain us on the weekends. The big homes we are in debt to we live as much as we can. Do we stay home and read, paint, study a language or have money and time to travel and experience different cultures?
These are some of the reasons I am here: to wean myself of modern addictions, and to prepare to become self-sufficient and enjoy the rest of my life.
Later, Lia
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very passe......idealistic...you can do better....
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