Comments on: accidental dropout (part 1) http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/accidental-dropout-part-1/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:12:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: accidental dropout (part 2) « Villageblog http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/accidental-dropout-part-1/#comment-83 accidental dropout (part 2) « Villageblog Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:06:32 +0000 http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/accidental-dropout-part-1/#comment-83 [...] « dropping out and going home accidental dropout (part 1) » accidental dropout (part 2) December 22nd, 2006 Go to part [...] [...] « dropping out and going home accidental dropout (part 1) » accidental dropout (part 2) December 22nd, 2006 Go to part [...]

]]> By: villageblog http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/accidental-dropout-part-1/#comment-82 villageblog Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:02:51 +0000 http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/accidental-dropout-part-1/#comment-82 Great post mate. I'm just about to read part 2, but had to just drop you a quick note... It's a story that that really resonates with me and has spooky parallels with my formative years, career and more recent decision to make my life my own and both get out of modern industrial civilised life and try to kick it a bit as I leave. Thank you. Jim (now, on to part 2...) Posted by: Jim | 12/23/2006 Jim, I'd love to hear your story, as I said in a previous post I think we can gather strength from each other's experiences. Posted by: Aaron | 12/27/2006 Ditto! The school stuff sounds very familiar, I was always keeping my head down, and couldn't understand why anyone would rebel or bother to do anything apart from comply to please those around them. The realisation that our society uses people's expectations to make us comply (and feel bad if we don't) really frustrated me when I figured it out. I still have problems now when I work temp jobs - I hate the job, hate everything about it, but I still want to please my fellow co-workers - I don't want to put them under any additional strain, so I comply. Until it gets too much, which is when I would just leave the job. I was gonna make a few more comments, but I'm gonna write my own little story soon, so I'll add it all into there. On to part 2.. Posted by: Dan | 01/06/2007 hey man - thanks for the link - read your post/autobio and can only say that evolution depends on the misfit - "hopeful monsters" as we're known. before I started putting signs on freeways I asked myself "What's the most useful thing I can do to alleviate suffering?" Given the resources I had, I decided to collect warm clothes, put them in my truck and then drive them out to the poorest people I could find in cold places. took about three years but I managed to clothe damn near everyone in the northwest sierra madres (mexico). woulkd love to get back to it, but right now america needs more help than the villages. peace -scarlet remember the question, "What's the most useful thing I can do with the resources I have?" I doubt the answer will be "working for the man". Posted by: scarlet p. | 01/12/2007 Great post mate. I’m just about to read part 2, but had to just drop you a quick note…

It’s a story that that really resonates with me and has spooky parallels with my formative years, career and more recent decision to make my life my own and both get out of modern industrial civilised life and try to kick it a bit as I leave.

Thank you.

Jim

(now, on to part 2…)

Posted by: Jim | 12/23/2006

Jim, I’d love to hear your story, as I said in a previous post I think we can gather strength from each other’s experiences.

Posted by: Aaron | 12/27/2006

Ditto! The school stuff sounds very familiar, I was always keeping my head down, and couldn’t understand why anyone would rebel or bother to do anything apart from comply to please those around them.

The realisation that our society uses people’s expectations to make us comply (and feel bad if we don’t) really frustrated me when I figured it out. I still have problems now when I work temp jobs – I hate the job, hate everything about it, but I still want to please my fellow co-workers – I don’t want to put them under any additional strain, so I comply. Until it gets too much, which is when I would just leave the job.

I was gonna make a few more comments, but I’m gonna write my own little story soon, so I’ll add it all into there. On to part 2..

Posted by: Dan | 01/06/2007

hey man – thanks for the link – read your post/autobio and can only say that evolution depends on the misfit – “hopeful monsters” as we’re known.

before I started putting signs on freeways I asked myself “What’s the most useful thing I can do to alleviate suffering?” Given the resources I had, I decided to collect warm clothes, put them in my truck and then drive them out to the poorest people I could find in cold places. took about three years but I managed to clothe damn near everyone in the northwest sierra madres (mexico). woulkd love to get back to it, but right now america needs more help than the villages. peace -scarlet

remember the question, “What’s the most useful thing I can do with the resources I have?” I doubt the answer will be “working for the man”.

Posted by: scarlet p. | 01/12/2007

]]>