Posted on 07/09/2017 6:18:02 AM PDT by simpson96
Sounds as if you have carved out a little Eden for yourself.
Wonderful! Kudos.
Any problems with armadillo burrows and cattle legs?
Going to have to rip off that glove mighty fast to shoot the charging bear, or club the bear?
Not sure what folks here are upset about, I mean, he lives off welfare, plays acoustic guitar, smokes dope, shoots a rifle with gloves on, and is off the grid ... sounds like one less Hillary voter to me.
Yeah. Raising him just to be their future nanny. Wonder what his outlet for urges will be...best not to think about it.
Their internet is almost as slow as Free Republic today : )
I’m in the unusual position of probably being the person writing about this family who lives the closest to them. I met the photographer when he was coming through, and I know the pilot who flew him out to the Atchleys. I could probably snowmachine out to them in a few hours.
But the remotest family on Earth? Not even close. I’m willing to bet there are families in northern Canada, eastern Greenland, Easter Island and Tristan de Chuna in the south Atlantic that are much further away from other than these folks. Sheesh. Some editor is either getting reamed out right now about that headline, or getting an award for imaginative clickbait. Maybe both.
When were they there? I don't know how long it takes stories like this to coalesce.
Yes, Alaska is remote, but they at least have access to airplanes, the fuel for it and path to Civilization.
People living int he Amazon Rainforest still eat bugs and hunt with only sharp sticks.
Interesting article. If these folks are happy living this way & aren’t harming anyone, I say bully for them.
I like technology too much to divorce myself from it as these folks have.
Ed Gold was here in mid-winter, so it looks like it took about 5 months to put the story together. Nice guy. Never met the family in the article, though.
That was a great, if sad, synopsis.
Thank you much for sharing that.
It must be hard.
How this is demonstrative of being any different than having an air drop of supplies, or film crews on tap to remote denizens, escapes me.
*He did not go into the woods to become a hermit, but to isolate himself from civil society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of much of the contemporary Western World, with its consumerist attitudes and its distance from and destruction of nature.*
IMO, that is the point.
TTFN
Except he did not.
He would often walk to his parents house to eat and socialize.
Now you can call this "isolating himself" but it is not.
Walden is a fantasy by a dependent man child who lived in cabin in his parents backyard. This would be acceptable if he did not pretend that it was some sort of withdraw from the world by a "rugged individualist".
If you can not wash your own socks or make a sandwich you are not a rugged individualist but the 19th century version of a pajama boy.
The plan is that their son will take care of them when they get old. It doesn't sound like dad intends for the son to have his own life. I doubt he will even have the social skills necessary to court a female.
His son has a lot of problems. Smoking weed is the least of them.
Henry David Thoreau Commemorated on a Forever Stamp Today
"With his personal example of simple living, his criticism of materialism, and the questions he raises about the place of the individual in society and humanity’s role in the natural world, Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) continues to inspire readers to assert their independence, reinterpret his legacy, and ask challenging questions of their own."
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