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Anonymous12/22/25, 10:41No.2854858
You know those threads we have every week about dropping everything and living alone in the woods? Almost in a ascetic manner without internet and no job.
Why? What causes it? To me it seems to be wanting an escape of urban life, the responsibilities and never-ending noise, the internet that has been utterly destroyed, to escape corporatism or something along those lines. To utterly reject consumerism and decadence.
Now in that sense the desire for that has been noted to have existed since roman times from what i have read. To simpler times, to rural life before urbanization. A romantization of perhaps a gilded past. Don't get me wrong, rural life is superior to urban life but it too has its disadvantages. Especially now when the majority lives in the city leaving only old people out in the countryside rather than the bustling village 100 years ago. The warmth of the village is gone in most places or dying out as is.
If you can't find contentness in the now then you won't find contentness in a log cabin in the middle of Alaska.
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Anon12/22/25, 10:54No.2854860
It is caused by a complete lack of purpose and we really don't need another thread talking about it.
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Anon12/22/25, 11:05No.2854861
>hur dur I'm not the guy who posted the last 3 wanting to drop out of college and live in the woods threads. But why does some genius like that come to his conclusions?I genuinely hope you get run over by a bus tomorrow. You are what is wrong with the world.
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Anon12/22/25, 15:35No.2854897
>If you can't find contentness in the now then you won't find contentness in a log cabin in the middle of Alaska.I agree with this. people being unhappy and wanting to quit society and move into the middle of no where is more of a reflection on the person than the society. Some people are just hard wired to complain and be miserable. we could do better but overall the amount of bitching and complaining about living the best humans have ever lived is ridiculous.>cant afford a new iphone
>get food stamps for free
meanwhile yesteryear
>dying of polio
>life expectancy 50s
>working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week at a lumber mill
>spotty indoor plumbing or AC for the working class
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Anon12/22/25, 16:30No.2854909
The burden of social expectations and having to constantly be around people that we don't like.Modern life is also overly complicated while we are animals at the end of the day. If you refuse to learn these complicated things, you are shunned.Most early christian hermits did not even want to live amongst peasants because even village life was/is always about making the most money possible to secure a wife and breed.Life in society is a rat race doubled with a crab bucket and Our Benefactors want us to chase money so they can tax our sweat and blood until we're old and served our purposeOn top of that, the human mind was not made for modern life. We need daily exercise, the closeness to nature, sleep based around natural light sources. Modern lifestyle in a big city is a constant assault to your psycheIt's good that some people have the desire to quit society. If everyone was fine with living in the matrix, it would accelerate the end of humanity, which is looming fast already
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Anon12/23/25, 00:54No.2854970
That's my plan when I buy land so I can build a Tedshack on it. As a loner modern soiciety has nothing to offer me, modern life is high-tech serfdom and pointless consumption with ever declining living standards. I just want to live a simple self-sufficient life with as little trinkets and gadgets as possible and a place to call home.
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Anon12/23/25, 04:18No.2854995
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Anon12/23/25, 20:51No.2855053
I mean you seem to have summed it up pretty nicely in your post. If you are running from problems then yes you probably shouldn't go to a cabin in the woods, but if you are running from society itself, then where else is there to go?
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Anon01/05/26, 09:34No.2856489
What causes social cohesion?
You, (OP), have a healthy idea of a norm, where humans are part of a group, after being born into it. Members of the group accept its general beliefs, adopt its mannerisms, identify with it and glorify it without objective reasons to do so. Social instinct, bias, impressionability and herd mentality in humans are pronounced enough to make it hard, almost impossible for a group to fail at projecting cohesion within itself. It begs the question how dysfunctional society, or a group, must be for it to reach a point where all the above feels non-existent or irrelevant to individual members.
I believe this is that 'cause' you're asking about.
Not everyone experiencing this will wish or even decide to innawoods and wizard. Once those things are gone, that normally make the individual consider those ideas absurd and make the chance of anyone seriously considering that virtually zero, the disillusioned individual might find all sorts of formerly unthinkable delineations equally appealing, after all the group has lost its appeal. It is then merely a question of the individuals character, experiences liking and means how their alternative to life in the group might look like. Some remain shut in at home. Others are out and about but at best superficially interact. Others again seek the distance, or their demise. Drugs and what not.
The question should be: Why do people not choose their group and it's traditions, when people are programmed to exactly that?
Also >>>/pol/ [//boards.4chan.org/pol/]
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Anon02/16/26, 18:26No.2861371
brugly. that's a whole wall of text.