The Nothingness of Modern Life - Why you should get off the grid

Modern life will not make you happy. The Great Reset or not, what's coming will not be good for our mental health and we will be happier off the grid.

0:00 - Intro
0:17 - The lies we tell ourselves
4:50 - Childhood dreams
8:05 - I've had enough

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[axesandaprons]

We moved very remote and converted a hunting cabin into a home. We are off grid capable if needed..well, wood cook stove, and the entire cabin can run on my trucks generator for 3 weeks. There hasn’t been much left for me in “society” since the vaccine mandates forced me out of a job. I want my kids to grow up with nature not screens. Modern society has taken its toll on us…It’s time for self reliance.

[michealkolnik]

To be completely honest, I would love nothing more than to be off the grid. Unfortunately I’m currently taking care of my disabled 85 year old mother, I made a promise to my father on his deathbed that I would take care of her until she passes. However, after that I’m out and gone!!!

[Ligerpride]

My father died on Wednesday of last week, with his funeral last Saturday. He died at 81 years of age. He was born at a time where there wasn't much in the way of material comfort. He experienced quite a rich gambit of the various technological changes. One benefit for him was the advances in medical treatment that maintained him as he struggled with his health over the last 12 years of his life.

There are a few things about his life that strike me relative to my own experiences. My Dad was able to buy a home in a nice community and had a devoted wife who looked after the jobs at home. Together they had 5 children and could easily afford to sustain that life with an annual summer holiday on his income alone. They only had a mortgage for several years. There was a great sense of community at the funeral. My parents were able to sustain lifelong or other long-term friendships. My Dad was a popular presence in our local pubs and my mother has a strong presence in the local church.

The sense of support from these groups has been enormous.

I cannot see any of these things being available for me if I reach that age. I'm 39 and don't even own a home. My Dad had 3 children and a fully paid off home at that age. I won't have the ability to plug into a community in the way my parents could. The pub culture is dead, the church is in terminal decline. To top it off we are living in an era without any real sense of group identity or common values. There is no longer a sense of loyalty to each other.

I am very fearful for my future and have very little in my life that I enjoy.

[WorldWideWebObserver]

Being fed up, tired of working, and dealing with society in general seems to happen by 50. Happened to me and countless others. Tiring running laps around the hamster wheel of life and society’s BS.

[truthtakestime]

I’m definitely been thinking about going off grid lately. Our modern cities are emotionally toxic and backwards. I’m very sick of it. I need to move away from all the bs that keeps being thrown at us.

[heatherrawlings]

I nearly had an anxiety attack thinking about this stuff yesterday. Glad I’m not alone.

[matisyahup]

I grew up believing in the world as I was taught in school, but by my mid 20s I knew
it was all conditioning. I was on a path for a profession that required a doctorate, but
withdrew from college after getting my bachelors degree because I just wanted to work
and start making money. After a while you realize there is very little difference between
a janitor and a doctor. Everyone who works and pays taxes into the system are all slaves.
This is the modern world, owners and serfs. Technology, as you put it the matrix, is a
hypnotic method to dull our sense of intuition from realizing how trapped we all really are.
The problem is the immense power these evil tyrants have, literally everything in the world
is controlled by them. Governments, educational systems, pharmaceuticals, etc.... nobody
can really escape it. I too have reached a level to say that legitimately I have no place in modern
society.

[monicamarion]

I wish I was taught this growing up. Save money, work hard, prepping and living off grid if needed. How important it is to live off the land. Schools and parents didn't prepare us for these situations.

[kristensherman]

Thank you for sharing Bjorn. I'm a single 40yo. woman living in Colorado in the US and trying desperately to make it on my own. Every day I fight the urge to just run away into the wilderness where no one will ever find me. The city is crazy, I always feel anxious. Go on your hike my friend. Find your peace. Sending you good vibes!

[esskayaussie]

I am 51. From a very different time compared to now. You are completely correct in your thinking on this subject. Not very much in modern life has intrinsic value or meaning anymore - its been designed to keep people busy and distracted so they don't realise until it is too late.

[fredbardell]

I like listening to your thoughts of life in general. At 16 years old I left home or home left me. I live in Canada and will say i have become very knowledgeable in many things are far as being self-reliant. Married for 55 years to the same beautiful lady' an three kids later, I am sad about how the world has ended up. Nearing 75 years old I'm still resilient. I grow a good garden and try to help who I can and hope for the best. It is sad to see the rich and powerful who care for no one take over. I will probably die fighting this terrible occupation of our lives .I will never surrender.

[kswensen]

"Modern life=The Nothingness" said a wiseman in the 21st century. This wonderful gentleman is such a gift.

[RichardKSmith-dblg]

When you think about all the things you've learned in sixty years, the one thing that stands out most is the realization that I really never had a chance to be the free independent man I wanted to be.

[nomadicbydesign]

I'm 55 and still see myself as young enough to do anything I dreamed up as a kid. I love to hike because I have a younger sister who can't. The only limits we have are the ones we put on ourselves. I went off grid and lived a very isolated existence, but am back again because we are a community and I need to connect. Also my kids and grandkids are here too. Nature is blissful, but it cannot fulfil our need for human connection. Learning to live in modern life without disconnecting from nature is the next challenge.

[katieskitchen]

Im a single mum with 2 ASD teens. I didn't have money, but managed to get onto a farm, where I care take it.... Anything is possible, just be positive & have the right mindset. 🙂

[kova]

I think I’m awfully young to be into this kind of stuff, but for someone who’s 19 I have the same sentiment. I started feeling this way in high school and it’s nice to see there’s others out there that feel the same way and are much older. I don’t want to be apart of this sick game anymore

[margomaloney]

"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that the lack of respect for growing, living things; soon led to the lack of respect for humans, too." Chief Luther Standing Bear, Sicangu and Oglala Lakota Chief

[BantiarnaMacRaghnaill]

I realized when everyone was quarantining in their homes and the streets were bare that the noise in my head, the low hum of tension that I feel so regularly - so regularly that it felt like normal - was not me but other people's energy. It was probably the first time I had felt my own energy since I was a kid and it was glorious. Once everyone began coming back out into the public, I didn't go back to my normal activities because I just can't take other people's energies anymore. Then, when I look around and I see that everything is a play and that I am one of the few people around me that recognize that, it makes me feel so very alone. It would help if I had my tribe, but I've never been able to find that. Like you, I don't know where I'm going to end up. Children are grown, parents and husband are gone. I wish us all the very best.

[rosefrizzell]

Because I can, is my answer when people ask why I still sleep in a tent when camping.

[loganpedroza]

I couldn't agree more. There is a certain "nothingness" about modern life which cannot be explained unless you experience it yourself. I, myself, have started to find this truth as I have gravitated away from urbanized areas to more rural areas. The sad truth is we have all been systemically sold a lie regarding what happiness looks like without ever being taught or encouraged to seek out true happiness for ourselves. It isn't until you disconnect yourself from the system that you truly understand.