Comments on: Disgust at Civilization http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/05/10/403/ Embrace Heritage Skills from Your Tribal Past Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:07:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Curt http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/05/10/403/#comment-23898 Curt Fri, 30 May 2008 13:27:51 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/05/10/403/#comment-23898 I look back on my own experience as a child, and go back to the Wandering Free Families post* as an inspiration to talk about this brief insight. Like I mentioned before, I went through a deep depression in my early twenties. Part of what helped pull me out of it was that I read ISHMAEL, by Daniel Quinn. Immediately, after reading it, I was able to draw on my childhood experiences camping with my parents and grandparents. I had forgotten those experiences existed during the depression years. But those experiences helped me see clearly why I felt so content camping with my kin on one hand, and on the other hand so discontented working as a logger in my early twenties. As a logger, I was killing trees in a dimension called loneliness. On the camping trips, I was a ten year old boy playing games with my kin under the trees next to a campfire. My body has known all a long what it has wanted. I just needed to listen to it. I hate this culture. Take care, Curt *http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2006/07/03/the-wandering-free-families/ I look back on my own experience as a child, and go back to the Wandering Free Families post* as an inspiration to talk about this brief insight. Like I mentioned before, I went through a deep depression in my early twenties. Part of what helped pull me out of it was that I read ISHMAEL, by Daniel Quinn. Immediately, after reading it, I was able to draw on my childhood experiences camping with my parents and grandparents. I had forgotten those experiences existed during the depression years. But those experiences helped me see clearly why I felt so content camping with my kin on one hand, and on the other hand so discontented working as a logger in my early twenties.

As a logger, I was killing trees in a dimension called loneliness. On the camping trips, I was a ten year old boy playing games with my kin under the trees next to a campfire.

My body has known all a long what it has wanted. I just needed to listen to it.

I hate this culture.

Take care,

Curt

*http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2006/07/03/the-wandering-free-families/

]]> By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/05/10/403/#comment-23832 Willem Sat, 10 May 2008 19:05:13 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/05/10/403/#comment-23832 I just read how Mr. Yuk doesn't necessarily repel younger children (2 years and before), though he seems to work well on older ones. This seems really interesting and illuminating somehow. Younger children, in love with the human face, and learning to trust that adults will meet all their needs, may only embark on the deep acculturation bit once they've really established a strong foundation of attachment. Hmm. I just read how Mr. Yuk doesn’t necessarily repel younger children (2 years and before), though he seems to work well on older ones. This seems really interesting and illuminating somehow.

Younger children, in love with the human face, and learning to trust that adults will meet all their needs, may only embark on the deep acculturation bit once they’ve really established a strong foundation of attachment. Hmm.

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