01-01-2016......9am
Everyone starts a new year with those “this will be the year.....”
internal conversations. Generally not a lot comes of those good intentions to
change ourselves and the world around us. This is my internal dialog, this my
promise to myself, my family, the country I live in and ultimately the future
of this planet; that this is the year I am going off grid.
Where I want to be one year from now is living so far
outside the system I won’t need more than one thousand quid of self earned
money to be warm, fed and happy. I aim to be so far outside the system that I
will not need anything from it, and hopefully system doesn’t notice that I am
gone. You see this isn’t a yuppie escaping the rat race blog, I am an artist
living with a small self earned income that is in benefit system to cover for
living expenses. I am living in fear of brown envelopes, telling me my business
plans aren’t up scratch, or that I am nonviable. I have grown tired of the fear
of going to the cash machine and finding my tax credits aren’t going to be paid
several weeks for some spurious reason leaving me with no money for food or
heating. I have grown angry watching it happen to others. The choice I will
face if I remain living in a house will be interacting with a system hell bent
on inflicting as much stress and misery on the most helpless, or leaving this
normal life, living on what I earn, and then blogging it, in hope that a pitch
fork army rises behind me, and does the same. We are going to need skills to
grow food, up cycle clothes, make our own medicines and build dwellings , but
we will live without the system. This isn’t some pie in the sky dream, this is
survival, the survival of people and the planet. This is Year Zero.
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