Or living as God intended. The more that I live and the more that I learn the more I realize how poisonous the mainstream is. Now you’re might be asking “The mainstream what Charles?”, the mainstream media? The mainstream school system? The mainstream culture? And that’s just the thing. It isn’t any general one thing, it’s everything. The mainstream everything. The mainstream way of learning, of living, of existing just isn’t right and doesn’t fit with being a human.
The mainstream is essentially “Satanic” in that is goes against everything the primal and cosmic order stands for. Good is bad, ugly is beautiful, up is down, left is right, and so on and so forth. As if it’s designed to destroy humanity and the soul of man. I don’t mean this in a conspiracy theory way or to sound alarmist just stating what I’ve seen. The more that I learn about it, the more that I don’t like what I see. Many writers and philosophers warned the world about modernity a long time ago but it’s only now coming to full fruition.
And we’re reaping what it’s sown. Fertility down, trust at an all time low, needless suffering, unhealthy people physically, mentally, spiritually, mental disorders growing, physical disorders growing, and trust me this is for reasons far beyond accurate diagnostics or more testing going on. Essentially the world’s been infected and it might be terminal. At least for this stage of civilization/humanity. Who knows maybe we’re at the end of a cycle that’s happens again and again and again. Though I don’t think so.
Finding Your Way To The Right Living
Man gains much from getting close to nature and his natural state, at least the good parts of it. I never thought that something like homesteading or farming would interest me yet here I am learning more about it day by day. I didn’t start out because I necessarily wanted to but because it’s needed more and more. The less I trust the world around me the more that I try things so that I’m more reliant on myself and those around me that are vetted and that I can trust. More out of necessity than anything else.
Part of me thinks that soon in most of the Western world people will have to live in small enclaves, maybe not in the next decade, but in the next century I’d put money on it. But anyways I found that I took to it more than I thought I would and enjoy a good part of it. It’s hard work and you need time but you can learn a lot and cut down on your expenses if you do it smart (there’s a difference between “yuppie” farmsteading and true farmsteading) one’s to save money and produce things the other’s to be part of a movement.
I’m sure you can guess which camp I belong to. But anyways this follows a line of thinking that I’ve been discussing more and more. Natural living and the health (spiritually, mentally, and physically) that it brings. I remember the action adventure stories I’d read of a kid of barbarians and hardened adventurers living off the land and their dislike of civilization. It was called “masculine wish fulfillment” or some other modernist term but it was simply factual truths transmitted through story. Something I discover more every day.
Getting Close To Nature & The Source
I first discovered it with reading a long time ago. Instead of scrolling through social media (something I never really got into), thirsting on Instagram, or whatever most guys use to consume their “down time” I started reading because I did it as a kid. I soon discovered the rich bounty it gave me back and so never stopped. As many have said reading essentially gives you a superpower. The more I read the more I learned and as you know knowledge is power.
But it’s more than just that because not only did I learn more but that learning more required me to think about things and look at things in new ways. I couldn’t just stay in my normal loop, I had to question things, to think, and to grow. Essentially working out for my mind. Though to be honest that analogy cheapens the thing for it was far more than working out, especially in some sterile gym. It was organic growth and development, evolution to something higher and more.
Same with fighting, don’t get me wrong I always figured fighting (talking real combat sports like boxing, MMA, wrestling, etc. not randomly fighting people or whatever) was good but didn’t understand the primalness of it and how different it was from the gym. I remember after first rolling session talked with another guy who was personal trainer after and talked about how it was so different than working out in the gym. The deadlift doesn’t try to outsmart you and fight back.
There was an added element that was good, as in “And it was good.” Biblical sense good. Something pure and primal and filled with fire. To fight and outsmart and adversary trying to do the same to you. Combining your physical aspects (fists, technique, leverage, strength, power, speed, flexibility) with your mental ones (countering, feinting, misdirection, pattern recognition, making educated guesses, general outsmarting and outthinking) with spiritual ones (pushing through when tired, development of iron will, ignoring pain for greater goal), and so on and so forth.
And now the same with farming.
Rediscovering What Was Lost
Not only did our generation and the few that came before throw out the baby with the bathwater they threw out the damn piping and half the house as well. So much of what will be required for us is relearning the things that societies and cultures knew for long periods of time. Always be open to innovation but don’t get carried along with every new thing that comes along. Look to nature and natural ways of living and you’ll be rewarded for it. Trust me on this, it’s something I’m rediscovering in a new way each and every day.
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-Charles Sledge
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