i just saw life off the grid. it was excellent. ironically, the grid kept dropping out while i was watching. the filmmaker is an ethnologist up in british columbia who goes all over canada researching how people live off the grid. some of them live in the islands by vancouver where i once lived.
it always makes me wistful when i think of it, i was there, but i wasn't conscious, i was young, in turmoil (and i was an illegal). i often say proudly i live off the grid, but i don't really. only in a relative sense i do. i live in the grid, but without a lot of the complications. i live as simply as i can, precariously. i don't know if i could live so diligently, i'd have a whole lot to learn, and the grid has made me lazy. one day the grid will fail. that's what trump sky alpha is about, and it's learning to live in a mass disaster, which we are feeling even now, though here in america we're living the illusion still. one day the illusion will fail with the grid, and we'll all fall together. maga will be seen as nothing but a violent illusion that was always doomed. trump will be seen as a mad pathetic demon of disaster capitalism, and we'll consign his flabby orange ass to the trash bin of history, and we'll have to begin to live consciously, and wean ourselves off the grid, to live and learn on the earth.