It had to happen. High-tech gives way to *shudder* real life! Chris Matyszczyk at cnet news thinks that you can do without Twitter, the cell phone, PowerPoint, Second Life, and eHarmony. Click on the link to see why.
On a more serious note: if you have enough clothes and are connected to utilities to stay warm, have a roof over your head, and enough food to eat, you are better off than 25% of the American population was during the Great Depression. Be thankful for what you do have, and generous to those who don't have it.
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In response to your post on collapse and the recession: the best things (IMHO) we can all do as this recession deepens and the possibility of collapse looms are:
1. Get out of debt or whittle it down as much as you can.
2. Get busy in the garden and learn/re-learn gardening skills. I recommend the books "How to Grow More Food Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine" by John Jeavons and "The Four Season Harvest" by Eliot Coleman as references.
3. Get to know your neighbors. If this isn't in your comfort zone, then grow your comfort zone.
4. Find out where the local permaculture group(s) are in your area. If there isn't one, start one. (for some background on permaculture there are plenty of books and websites)
5. Reduce your dependence upon large centralized systems wherever possible: Move your money to a credit union or local bank, patronize farmers markets, join a CSA (community supported agriculture). Find these things at websites like local harvest.org or oeffa.org; If your lucky enough to have some land, even if it's a few acres, start garden farming and offer a CSA service yourself; patronize local merchants/stores when possible. Granted, some things we still have to get at a big box store for the time being but we have to start somewhere.
6. Learn a useful, basic skill. It doesn't matter much what it is as long as it will not only make you more more self sufficient, but also be able to offer/barter the skill/service in your community.
tech products, hmmm
Imac
Macbook Pro
Macbook amateur
Macbook Air
Any ipod besides my phone
Look, done
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