Being a human being in a world of illusions
Starting with this interesting platform Steemit, I presume it would be appropriate to start with a short introduction. Many people usually call themselves Anarchists, but day-to day actions prove otherwise. There is something to be proud of, if one can live outside the Capitalist system as much as possible.
Living outside the €-system close to the Arctic Circle is pretty challenging, but there are examples, me included, where harsh weather conditions makes being a hierarchy-free person pretty difficult. It requires a lot of effort and skill to be able to get a shelter, food and stuff like that. Having only one small backpack full of "property" provides a chance to experience extreme freedom, which can be only obtained through "unnormal" way of life.
It all started years ago, when life was going full downhill, I found some activist circles and new awesome friends, which changed everything. From being a miserable factory monkey to a life full of adventures and new interesting information, the change was well worth the jump to the unknown. Sometimes one needs to see the bottom to rise up to the top.
So many things we humans see as "normal" today actually are pretty weird looking at the historical perspective. Our species has been living most of the time as Hunter-Gatherers, so this pseudo-democracy is just another dumb invention to keep people on a leash "domesticated". So is this money, just numbers on a database, which is usually seen as some kind of "godlike" entity.
The difference to the old times, when everything was scarce, there was a need for a system to gove some less and some more, but today with the avalable information, communication methods and technology, we can create abundance in a heartbeat. It just requires many value changes and total reconstruction of our reality tunnels.
If it is possible to survive without money in a society like this, would be pretty easy to make ends meet for everyone. Perhaps the biggest force could be an Anarchist prespective, not obeying the "powers that be", but working outside the system and helping each other. The true change is closer, than one can even imagine!
Finland? (Sweden and Norway are outside the euro anyway)
Yeah, why not challenge oneself in the worst conditions. Cold winter and un-social people, but luckily there are many more people, who like to think out of the box. The weird part of this kind of living is, that no matter where one goes, with the right intentions there is noneed for worries about the future. That's one of the big problems in the current way of thinking, nobody knows what's gonna happen and one cannot change the past, but still most misery comes from from worrying about either one.
well said!