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by goodguysstick 1274 days ago
After reading your personal website, and about your history, I would say that you are the type of person that needs other people around them. You've had a troubled past, but you are a good guy. Good guys need other good guys around them. The fact that you have been upfront and attoned for mistakes you've made is a good thing. I think that these people that you might see as having persecuted (2021) you have actually helped you.

Look for a town/region/community that is properly integrated with broader society and the world. Don't run off and think you have all the answers. Contribute to something that is already okay. There is no perfect - the 'clean and pure' often turn out to be hiding some really grotty things.

All the best.

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I sincerely appreciate the personal input. I'm mostly recovered from 2021, and I don't intend to do anything dramatic if I do decide to go partly off-grid. Purely from logistics alone, I'd need to transition to a remote-only job and get money saved, but I've also placed the requirement of finishing my monstrous writing project before starting it.

As far as I can tell from the meandering I've done, good people and more power are a toxic combination. Either the power gets to their head and they stop being good anymore, bad people with less moral failsafes will take over that power, or good people have to sacrifice power to the Great Unknown just to continue surviving. And, eventually, the children of good people aren't automatically good by osmosis, and they're the ones who inherit the throne.

It may be a fantasy wrought by the ending of Robinson Crusoe (which bugged me that he didn't make a sequel), or an over-application of how I found untold freedom when I was a truck driver. Mostly, it's an experiment to see if we can do it, and how far we can go, and I'll keep the apartment manager of the nearest big city on file just in case.

>It may be a fantasy wrought by the ending of Robinson Crusoe (which bugged me that he didn't make a sequel)

But check out The Swiss Family Robinson. Read both Crusoe and the latter as a kid.