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I just wanted to echo Eric’s comments and agree that this is one of the most interesting and best written blogs on the internet, and that your writings have probably done more than any other to open my eyes to a life beyond civilisation.

I hope that you come back to writing fresh and fully-recovered, and good luck with the re-wilding. As for me, I’m way behind you it seems, still working on a bow drill!

All the best,

Sean

So, above and beyond the call of duty and all that. _Of course_ it’s time for you to think ‘Screw it.’

There are better things in life than blogging. But you knew that already.

Thanks for the incredible work, and take it easy.

In many ways this is an exciting time to be alive, because there will be significant changes taking place. It’s important to keep in mind the differences between our collective, rational selves, and our personal, emotional selves. Every day my personal, emotional self wants to say to hell with the world, and every human in it; but my collective, rational self keeps me painfully engaged. Having a mother and a wife, and other significant relationships (fewer than 150 in number of course) keeps me more in balance.

I think I’ll go home and urinate in my compost pile now.

Take care. Come back to us.

And not to worry, I’ve never cut into my rewilding time to keep up this blog. I’ve cut into my personal time, my sleeping time, even my physical well-being time, but never my rewilding time. Actually, this has been a great year for rewilding. I have a bow drill and a bow & arrows, I’ve started learning bird songs, I have a cabinet full of herbal medicines … it’s really been a great year all around.

And don’t worry, this isn’t just the cause of a few obnoxious trolls. This is the end result of several years of slow erosion and me not taking the time for myself that I needed.

Too Human, I’m especially sad I couldn’t jump into that other thread you were in. You’re asking all the right questions, and it’s just a shame nobody in there really put it in the proper terms. Humans are just like every other animal. The “overkill” theory is overblown, but it is probably true that humans probably had something to do with the extinction of, say, the mammoth (harder to blame us for many of the other species that went extinct then, however, like the saber-toothed tiger, or the giant sloth). But it’s not because we’re so innately destructive, it’s because we were an invasive species. But our culture allows us to become native much more quickly than we might by simple natural selection, which is what the Native Americans did. And civilization is simply a case of overshoot, a phenomenon hardly peculiar in any ecology. I’m sorry I don’t really have the time to answer everything in that thread, but I would like to stress that I think all the questions you raise make a lot more sense when you understand human societies in simple ecological terms like invasive species, becoming a native species, or overshoot.

I’ve only made it through the fourth or fifth Thesis so far, but I’m enjoying it. I look forward to an intelligent exchange of ideas. This blog is a pretty special place, don’t forget that.

Take care of yourself, Jason. No one else will do it for you. Well… maybe Giuli, if you ask real nice.

I look forward to seeing the fruit of your 5th World labors. The animist character concepts sound really mind-blowing.

Yeah, it’s really quite sad that primitivism has become such a douchebag-magnet.

Ditto.

As much as I enjoy your stimulating writing I had always wondered what cost it came at. I can keep it up a bit because of my cruisy part time job. But most of my week is spent on the blunt end of a hoe or fork making more meaningful preparations. Is all of this reference slinging worth anything in the long run? Why exactly do we feel the need to compell anyone to believe anything? Maybe because it is easier than self examination……

So anyway…the last thing you should feel bad about is a lack of blogging.

Take care and conserve that valuable energy.