Liberty Lovers: Create Your Own Culture!

without giving an excuse.

Most of my time on this rock has been spent fighting
fighting for things i knew were right and unharmful
fighting family and friends who's only reason to live was to fit in
go with the flow,don't rock the boat
the things i see in my mind meant more to me,than to them
but now it is slowly slipping away,what with time,age,and the
years fighting to just be me
it is slipping away from all the time spent doing not what i wanted to do,but constantly having to argue my case,over and over
this left me almost alone,broke,beaten and battered
i have more friends online that i cherish than the ones i have met
but what was so bad about the way i wanted to do things?
what did i ask more than any other thing?
what i asked,what i wanted,what i fought for? to be left alone,to live my only life the way i saw fit
now so much time has has passed,i will never fulfill any of it
deacon

I think when one is true to themselves, "majic happens".

I don't know why I wanted to go to Mendocino. I really didn't know much about it, matter of fact, one reason I remember clearly of wanting to go camping there was because I was tired of going hiking where I lived, and running into illegal marijuana grows, various LAOs storming through the woods and rivers, with their army of helicopters and Humvees, and also running into growing cabals taking breaks with their families, weapons ready to fire on me. I thought Mendo was too cold to grow marijauna. Also, being a beached surfer, I wanted to be close to the ocean and not be tempted to surf.

My camping trip, as messed up as the reservations were, as they had me having to move camp every day to another location in the county, had me meeting people, going places I never dreamed, or heard of, finding work (I wasn't even looking), finding not just an apartment (I wasn't even looking), but a cottage in the redwoods with enough land to begin a garden, and things just kept getting better and better.

I found myself in a community with a culture that I fit perfectly. Everything I ever dreamed of, wanted to do, appreciated, was all here, and waiting for me. All I had to do was continue to be myself.

Mendocino has it's own culture, and now I am part of that tapestry, and very happy.

So I think, rather than attempting to "create your own culture", it's better to be true to yourself, know yourself, appreciate what you LOVE and invest in that, and whether like me, that culture already exists like a hand in glove, or you find some tribe that becomes your family that materializes it's own culture/meme, being true to yourself, HAPPY and LOVING LIFE will make a culture natually.

This is absolutely the most important post of the week !!!

I'm going to bump the shit out of it ( or into it, as the case may be ).

Thank you, Michael and Tragedy and Hope, for all you do to bring good things to light.

http://www.dailypaul.com/235125/weekend-meditation-conscious...

A few colleagues and I have worked much of our lives researching and building small working models of alternative culture.

Decades later, I find myself happily and successfully living, if not a complete one, but a nice hybrid alternative culture for myself and loved ones.

Based on my experience, the seeking, questioning, trials and tribulations of the quest somewhere along the line transitioned to an actual wake-up-in-the-morning to my own little sphere of alternative culture.

That is my great pay-off for this mostly lonely, misunderstood, difficult and (in the early decades) un-rewarded search for a better path forward for ourselves and for the children of the world.

For the young people reading this, please take the message of this video to heart and get started. At the least, you may end up with some great advantages to utilize after the collapse. At that time, we will need a global, vital and visionary group of artists and teachers who can forge a re-boot to Civilization 2.0 with all the proper upgrades in place.