I have just so many feelings on this one. There will need to be a list.
1. Missed opportunity for Faucian Bargain. (I'm sure I'm not original there but it popped into my head as I was reading).
2. I want to do shrooms with Liv and talk about god and aliens so bad.
3. Why are the creatures living in hollow earth aliens? Did they not come from earth? If they live not just on earth but in it, IMO they are more earthling than us. We are the aliens.
4. Do they have to live on the inside edge of the sphere and get gravity from centrifugal forces like in space scifi, or is it just another layer and our up is still their up?
5. This makes me think a lot of myself (shocker) and things like the way I approach the climate emergency, etc. Not entirely sure how to approach things without being dismissive but it is very very hard. For Covid as well, a lot of my family in WI and CO I saw in this post. Conspiritualist is such an apt word for it. Luckily they tend to be on the more normal side of it, and most have been vaxxed at least once, but it's been hard. I've watched as they got more and more into this stuff.
6. Liv reminds me a lot of my uncle, who passed in Jan 2021. He wasn't full homestead, but he was heading into conspiritualism pretty hard, and was also the caretaker of his community and both my grandmothers. He'd bring them food during lockdowns, make sure they got good grub. Was there for them. But being that person for a community is so dang hard, you really need reciprocity. He had some but IMO the stress of all that (plus decades of WI diet of mostly meat and beer) took him younger than he shoulda been. It's also very true that all the people in my life who tend towards those beliefs find them after upheavals that strip normal from them. Massive shifts in the way their industry works right out of college, deaths in the family, of siblings or spouses or children. Often seeking something larger than what they're living to make sense of what's happening.
It was nice to get this perspective. Great post. Michelin starred.
I have just so many feelings on this one. There will need to be a list.
1. Missed opportunity for Faucian Bargain. (I'm sure I'm not original there but it popped into my head as I was reading).
2. I want to do shrooms with Liv and talk about god and aliens so bad.
3. Why are the creatures living in hollow earth aliens? Did they not come from earth? If they live not just on earth but in it, IMO they are more earthling than us. We are the aliens.
4. Do they have to live on the inside edge of the sphere and get gravity from centrifugal forces like in space scifi, or is it just another layer and our up is still their up?
5. This makes me think a lot of myself (shocker) and things like the way I approach the climate emergency, etc. Not entirely sure how to approach things without being dismissive but it is very very hard. For Covid as well, a lot of my family in WI and CO I saw in this post. Conspiritualist is such an apt word for it. Luckily they tend to be on the more normal side of it, and most have been vaxxed at least once, but it's been hard. I've watched as they got more and more into this stuff.
6. Liv reminds me a lot of my uncle, who passed in Jan 2021. He wasn't full homestead, but he was heading into conspiritualism pretty hard, and was also the caretaker of his community and both my grandmothers. He'd bring them food during lockdowns, make sure they got good grub. Was there for them. But being that person for a community is so dang hard, you really need reciprocity. He had some but IMO the stress of all that (plus decades of WI diet of mostly meat and beer) took him younger than he shoulda been. It's also very true that all the people in my life who tend towards those beliefs find them after upheavals that strip normal from them. Massive shifts in the way their industry works right out of college, deaths in the family, of siblings or spouses or children. Often seeking something larger than what they're living to make sense of what's happening.
It was nice to get this perspective. Great post. Michelin starred.