Fools’ errands are best carried out by fools. The rest of us, we just muddle through the best we can, slyly seizing advantages and using ingenuity as a defense against the unending assault on good sense and practical applications.
There used to be a publication, maybe still is, called “Mother Earth News”, that provided a lot of practical tips on how to live “off the grid” if that were the choice forced upon you, and how to cope with vexing problems of supply and utilization of the resources available to every person, if they so choose to apply them.
Mother Earth News is still being published, I believe. My mother had a subscription for many years, and I read quite a few issues. A lot of hippy-dippy stuff, as you’d expect, but also plenty of useful information. I may get a subscription myself now that I’ve been reminded of it.