Love this post! Very informative and I respect your value of home and the honesty about the work and reward, the Love. I believe we need the "back to the land" movement to pick up more steam (wink) as our current ways of living are so unsustainable. Being able to work WITH the land, instead of simply taking up space on it (and relying on others to neatly package our needs for us, so we can go out and spend our ever-inflated dollars on the convenience) is truly a path to freedom and an invaluable lesson to teach our children. There IS another way of living, and I'm excited to see the future as cryptos and blockchain tech advances, some of the early steps to taking the power back from the upper tier, allowing individuals more power to create, innovate, and have more time to procreate! As James Altucher (brilliant dude, if you don't know of him check him out, this squirrely little guy is genius: https://jamesaltucher.com/start/ ) says, we're in the midst of a shift, where people are realizing they can't rely on their governments to save them (in fact they often are doing quite the opposite), "safe" jobs are dwindling with the advances in tech, and so we're entering a "choose yourself" economy, and the possibilities are limitless! We NEED to be more self sufficient, to put the work in and invest in ourselves. It's my vision to create a "homestead" in South America and other locales based on permaculture principles, to live in a tree house, and have many animals and children running around to help out. I believe teaching the children of the local communities, that may not have access to great schools and the promise of a job, how to build their own shelter and grow their own food will be both challenging and indescribably rewarding. Self-sufficiency = freedom.
“You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.” ― G.I. Gurdjieff