Americans sick of the 'cultural revolution' under Joe Biden are setting up incredible off-grid city in the DESERT hundreds of miles away from civilization with their own government and courts... and offer chilling prediction for the future of the country

Daily Mail ^ | 6/16/24 | Will Potter

[Libloather]

A community of society-shunning Americans launched a survivalist haven in the Utah desert after finding themselves alienated from the modern world.

Hundreds of people have set themselves up to live off the land under 'Operation Self-Reliance,' feeling that getting off-the-grid is the solution to a crumbling culture.

The commune was established by Philip Gleason, 74, a former general contractor who felt a calling to allow people to grow their own food, pump their own water and rely on nothing but themselves.

He admitted to Deseret News that while some choose to live there for environmental or health reasons, its intended purpose was to evade the 'craziness' of the modern world and the current political climate under the Biden administration.

'We seem to be undergoing a cultural revolution in the U.S.,' he said. 'When we first came out here, we thought it might be too far away... Now, with everything that's happening, we wonder if it's far enough.'

Residents at the OCR co-op in Riverbed Ranch in Juab County live almost entirely off-the-grid.

Tenants each buy their own two-acre plot, where their only choice is to grow all of their own food, as the estate has no municipal power system and no sanitation utilities.

A share of the co-op costs at least $35,000, but that is before residents need to fill the obligations Gleason mandates, including building your own home from scratch.

Residents must also build a barn, install a septic system, produce their own solar energy, dig a well to the freshwater dozens of feet below and build a greenhouse.

These costs, OCR's website admits, could run up at least another $235,000, which the organization blames on 'the Covid insanity driving the cost of building materials up significantly.'

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember books by an author in the 1960s and 1970s wanting people to go to Canada and homestead. He did well selling books.

Later I found the author was living in a condo in Los Angeles. Why dig in the dirt when you can write a book.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Reminds me of the old JUNK FOOD JUNKIE song of the 1970s.

https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/larry-groce/junk-food-junkie

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You know I love that organic cooking
I always ask for more
And they call me Mr. Natural
On down to the health food store
I only eat good sea salt
White sugar don’t touch my lips
And my friends is always
Begging me to take them
On macrobiotic trips
Yes, they are
Oh, but at night I stake out my strongbox
That I keep under lock and key
And I take it off to my closet
Where nobody else can see
I open that door so slowly
Take a peek up north and south
Then I pull out a Hostess Twinkie
And I pop it in my mouth
Yeah, in the daytime I’m Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me

[Tired of Taxes]

You beat me to it! My first thought was Galt’s Gulch, too.

[PeterPrinciple]

two acres is plenty for a septic system ... the real trick for any co-existing well on such a small site is that it has to draw from an independent aquifer that is MUCH than the surface septic leach field, AND to make sure the well is cased, with the casing fully sealed by completely grouting it ...

there are whole neighborhoods of “ranchettes” near me configured like that

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Yes it works now for a time but it eventually becomes a problem. I have witnessed this. Do as you please.

[moovova]

Where’s the nearest Lowe’s?

[Svartalfiar]

Of course, self-sufficiency on a small farm requires some brains and a lot of hard work. So that means a good percentage of the American population wouldn’t stand a chance. But some could do it. I am surprised that there seems to be no current “Back To The Land” movement.

The big problem with this is the lack of anything else. When everybody is spending all their time to be self-sufficient, there's no time for much else. Everyone's a farmer, every other profession, technological advance, etc disappears..