It’s funny how things come back around again sometimes. I recently spotted some links to my site along with some rather nice comments at Ran Prieur’s site. This is hilarious to me, because I had linked to and quoted from Ran’s site a bunch of times a few months back. I spent a lot of time foraging around over there and there are some really excellent articles about what to do when “the system” finally “crashes.” I try not to get too caught in this kind of pessimistic thinking for too long though, even though I more or less agree with it. I guess I’m just trying to put together a different set of puzzle pieces, but I appreciate Ran’s efforts, and think they are more than worth your while to check out. In any event, one of the most inspiring parts of the site though is the landblog section. I’ve actually posted about it before, but it details his efforts to purchase a piece of land on which to build and live sustainably off-the-grid. If and when I ever get the money (any money, at all, for that matter), I plan on taking some sort of similar tactic.
Actually, now that I think of it, I found Ran’s website waaay back when, because I was looking to see if anybody had written an essay mentioning how Star Wars was essentially an epic glorifying terrorism, and how it had pretty close parallels to what happened on 9/11. Here’s that article in case you’re interested. I was also very much inspired by his essay “How to drop out” and have been doing a pretty good job of doing just that ever since.
Oh, I almost forgot… I guess the way that Ran found my site though was actually through another really excellent weblog, Fantastic Planet. FP added me to their blogroll through a common interest in gnosticism and Philip K. Dick and shit like that. For anyone interested in that stuff, FP is one of the best blogs I’ve seen. Okay, I’ll be honest: it’s actually one of the only blogs I’ve seen that covers these topics (besides mine, of course), but it also happens to be really excellently written and researched. I definitely recommend checking out their commentary on the Gospel of Thomas (you’ll find links which dissect each saying in that text on the right side of their layout).
Anyway, it’s awesome to know that people I respect are reading (plus all you nameless unwashed masses, of course), and it’s awesome how things come full circle like that.
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