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mellowtigger) wrote2020-09-03 05:46 pm
mellowtigger) wrote2020-09-03 05:46 pm
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walking away from civilization
It's fun to roam through the wild theories of what happened to the Mayan civilization. It just sort of ended without leaving behind any clear evidence for why. Always missing from these serious and researched ideas is the obvious but dangerous idea that people simply chose to walk away from civilization. That was the main point that I took from the new age kind of story "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn. Maybe everyone was fed up with the complexity and the low return on benefits, so they simply walked out of the cities and back into subsistence living. Walking away is an actual option.
A similar vein of conspiracy theories has existed for many years about the Croatoa incident, where a New World colony of 115 people seemed to just disappear. Visitors years later arrived at the colony to find only the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree. Turns out, something similar may have happened, with the settlers simply choosing wholesale abandonment of the civilization they brought with them in favor of something entirely different and more peaceful.
I was woken at 5am today by gunshots. I called 911 to report it, because it seemed close enough to warrant that extra attention. Supposedly someone got shot near the end of my block.
I'm considering just taking a break from everything for a while. Maybe until after the election. There's plenty of stress without watching the news. I've got the newly released Wasteland 3 to play, and Baldur's Gate 3 is due soon too. I'll post if I get sick or shot or something else life-changing, but I think a break is a good thing.
See you after the election. Good luck out there.
A similar vein of conspiracy theories has existed for many years about the Croatoa incident, where a New World colony of 115 people seemed to just disappear. Visitors years later arrived at the colony to find only the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree. Turns out, something similar may have happened, with the settlers simply choosing wholesale abandonment of the civilization they brought with them in favor of something entirely different and more peaceful.
The evidence shows the colony left Roanoke Island with the friendly Croatoans to settle on Hatteras Island. They thrived, ate well, had mixed families and endured for generations. More than a century later, explorer John Lawson found natives with blue eyes who recounted they had ancestors who could “speak out of a book,” Lawson wrote. The two cultures adapted English earrings into fishhooks and gun barrels into sharp-ended tubes to tap tar from trees.
- https://www.pilotonline.com/news/vp-nw-not-lost-20200817-qgmblubzt5dyjm3jrcop25ssoq-story.html
I'm considering just taking a break from everything for a while. Maybe until after the election. There's plenty of stress without watching the news. I've got the newly released Wasteland 3 to play, and Baldur's Gate 3 is due soon too. I'll post if I get sick or shot or something else life-changing, but I think a break is a good thing.
See you after the election. Good luck out there.