Two recent videos I recommend: “Every Reasons to Hate Cars” and “What I DON’T Buy Anymore (Because of the 1940s)”
I generally don’t just repost other people’s material and try to put media I finished each week on my Sunday posts, but I saw two short videos I thought you might like that were too short to mention there. I recommend them.
The first is from Not Just Bikes by podcast guest Jason Slaughter. I recommend all his videos and I have watched them all. This one summarizes them. It also mentions the work of three other podcast guests:
It’s fun to be an active part of this community promoting living together without hurting each other. I recommend listening to their episodes with me and watching all their work. But start with the video below.
A listener recommended the video below, which I liked enough to prompt me to watch several of her other videos from her channel, Real Vintage Dolls House. She’s influenced by how people lived in the 1940s and finds joy in it. Disengaging from many parts of modern life reveals to her many advantages to then and disadvantages to now.
You can probably tell the overlap with my choosing to live in a way mainstream culture would see as regressing to deprivation and sacrifice. I choose based on not wanting to hurt people or violating their consent, which polluting and depleting do. Whatever the reason, neither of us wants to go back to what modernity calls progress.
I find her videos engaging and compelling. I haven’t gone that direction since I’m working so hard on my next book, but probably will at some point. When I finish the book, I think you’ll agree I chose right. In the meantime, I recommend enjoying her videos and considering the joys and rewards you can expect from minimizing your pollution and depletion.
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