The Despair of Doing Nothing: A Thought Experiment

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False materialistic culture and agriculture begin and end by “doing.”                                 But the way of [the] true man begins and ends by “doing nothing.”

 (Masanobu Fukuoka, The Natural Way of Farming, 214) 

Throughout our wonderings over the past year, we have taken up, at least tangentially, a rather thorny issue: what to do as we approach the collapse of industrial civilization. Should we continue to live comfortably ensconced within the current culture or do we attempt to extricate ourselves from it and simplify our lives? Alternatively, do we work diligently to hasten its demise?

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