A nonplussed character wearing a feathered leather hat and a backpack full to bursting says to a disgruntled man “aight it’s been real but im disappearing into the woods forever.”
The would-be hermit turns only his eyes toward the man as he raises his arms in frustration and shouts “you can’t just fuck off into the woods, you have to stay here!”
The man’s expression softens into confusion as his conversational parter’s backpack comes to the fore of his vision as he simply departs. A narrator adds “but he could. And he did.”
The traveler is seen at great distance as the man continues looking on. The narrator continues. “And no one ever saw him again.”
Plenty of homeless camps in the woods get busted each year.
“Oh no, I’ll have to pretend to leave and then move 200 meters and no one will find me for 8 months.”
Really, the biggest issue is not dying. That’s the thinker
When the cops bust a homeless camp… they don’t just let the homeless people go. Also, after they find one, they patrol the area periodically… there are common sites they crop up. Sorry, it’s just not that easy to escape to unoccupied land, that is unpoliced. It’s a nice dream, but it’s not the reality of the world.
Also, after they find one, they patrol the area periodically… there are common sites they crop up. Sorry, it’s just not that easy to escape to unoccupied land, that is unpoliced.
i think you are mixing two things together. these homeless people are not adventurer types that want to get off the grid for the sake of it - they just don’t have the roof over their head, but need to camp as close to civilization as possible, so they could still scavenge its scraps. they could go further, but there would be no supermarket to dumpster dive to.
ah, the Ted Kaszinski way, minus the bombing of course.
You can always add the bombing later
but you need to add math proof earlier.
I’m getting to that point myself (and yes, I’ve had survival training)
A woman my wife works with took in a teenage boy (a relative, but I don’t remember the connection) whose mother walked into the woods one day and disappeared. Her car was found, she wasn’t. I think the father had passed away already, so when the mother vanished, the kid had no one else.
Poor kid lost his mother, then had to move cross country, losing all of his friends, too. A shit situation for everyone involved.
(No one ever saw him again because he starved to death in a remote gully 7 months later, in the depth of winter.)
(But on the plus side, he never had to attend another Teams meeting or see another Facebook meme.)
his name was ted kasinski
Oh shit, he got 7 whole months without politics and llms??
Ne, he actually tried to live in the forest first, but he had to witness how forest workers constantly cut down trees left and right and that made him sad again and he had to flee further.
Into the sub-forest, like that time I retreated to the sub-basement because my parents were fighting too much.
I can assure you it’s not just a masculine urge
Indeed. I should have blanked it out but I also had the masculine urge to be lazy
i know someone who did that… buggered off into the qld bush to brew moonshine and grow ganja.
Every couple of years he’ll hit me up on IRC and send deep cut psytrance bootlegs, fun times.
Yeah, cool, but IRC? I genuinely didn’t know that was a thing anymore.
IRC never died.
I was a pIRCh guy, myself.
there’s even selfhosted clients for it now like The Lounge.
What the hell that sounds like the coolest person ever
Inb4 he got eaten by a bear several days into his new life.
good news is - after you die, they will make a movie and after seeing it, a few dozen people will try to replicate your steps and die in the process, so you will inspire quite a few people!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke The linked person did this for a couple decades in alaska. Yearly trades with a friend who came over by seaplane and landed on the local lake. they exchanged some goods, i think Proenneke made some oils from the wilderness and the visitor brought like medicine and shoes or something. He eventually had to come back to society because he couldn’t chop enough wood to keep himself warm in the winter anymore.
Richard(Dick) Filmed himself setting up and his first year or couple years. This was edited into 3 or 2 films (Alone in the wilderness). you should look for them online, they are available for free if you look in the right spots. I think there’s 4 hours of edited film in total of his story.
He went back to society because he was 83, i think it’s fair… (he visited family durimg the time he lived in Alaska).
We laugh but this is what we should do
https://people.com/family-living-off-the-grid-died-of-malnutrition-hypothermia-autopsy-7965000
The reality in most developed nations is that people do not have the skills required anymore and even if they did the environment is not and never has been capable of supporting 8 billion apes strip foraging the wilderness. Modern farming techniques and medicine are both why the global population has exploded in the last two centuries and the loss of either will immediately devastate humanity.
Tl;Dr that shit was hard when people knew mostly what to do and you don’t
People have forgotten how easy it is to die. Doctors would slip while doing an autopsy and die from sepsis within a week
Most of us would die :(
Most would die within 1 month. The average is 2 weeks alone for an untrained person.
Until they came to cut the forest down…
You can’t just fuck off into the plains you need to stay here!
But they could. And they did.
nonplussed character
nonplussed /nɒnˈplʌst/ The word nonplussed traditionally means surprised, confused, and unsure how to react (left at a loss for what to say or do).
TIL, if I heard this word used in a less clear context I’d assume it’s like tier 3 lgbt slang or something lmao.
Nonplussed is one of those words that means the opposite of what i think it would, intuitively.
My plan too, was supposed to have done it by now. But I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of.
But I will start saving in secret again when I can and fuck off somewhere.
One day, no one will ever see me again, and many will certainly celebrate.
But I’d like to remind those people, they contributed to make this world unlivable in the first place.
I want to leave because there is no fair way for me to exist within the system.
I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of. […] I will start saving in secret again when I can
May you find your patch of woods one day.
Hrm, I see this meme just prior to certain elections…
Look, there’s plenty of posts trying to suppress votes. I get that. That’s not what this is. I’m certain this has nothing to do with the election. Are we only allowed to make posts that tell people to vote near an election?
If, realistically, inspiring like 2 people worldwide to escape into the wilderness is enough to sway an election, I’ll eat my shoe. There’s always an upcoming election
Even those 2 can still vote and then disappear into the woods.
It is not like they would lose anything doing that.
