Well said!

I live alone up in the mountains. I'm the quintessential 'leave me alone' guy no one knows or notices.

In recent years I've also come to realize there is no fighting the government or major institutions head-on. You can only really avoid them or go around them with an alternative system.

Building my own systems or jumping onto existing alternatives has become my strategy. Self-sovereignty was always important to me, but now more than ever with the technology they have available.

It's gonna be very hard, nearly impossible, to live free and prosper in this world if you base everything you do on technology or industrial scale systems. The govt and corporations dominate that stuff, and so much of it is corrupt that it could be unrecoverable.

Grow and raise your own food or buy it from local farmers. Use well water if you can. Secure your own digital identity as much as you know how. Learn to defend yourself. All that stuff.

I'm not that optimistic for the quality of life the average person will have in our ever-expanding high-tech world. I think you have to go old school and analog in many ways if you want to avoid getting completely sucked into the mess.