The amount of changes happening right now would flatten anyone. We are dealing with many shifts. Astrological events that are not just a once in a thousand year events, but ones that haven't ever happened before.
The old structures are falling apart.
Humans are getting a DNA upgrade.
And Trump is attacking Iran… or is he?
The monetary system is falling apart, and the new one is forming. How will we survive? We have known and used the dollar all of our lives, and now, it could be bitcoin, or the new dollar.
People are losing their jobs. So many layoffs. Are you next? Am i next on the chopping block?
We are dealing with all of this, and this guy BuilderOfCastles, just wrote a blog saying that we should just ignore it all, and "find your family"?
Why a family?
I use "family" here because it is the word people will use in the future. And it refers to the group of people that they have chosen to form an intentional community. A group of about one hundred people, who share much of the same values, and have gotten together for mutual support. One person will find it very hard to be completely self-sufficient. But a small group can come close.
In the future, we will not live in "nuclear families". It was a really bad idea from the start. And the corporate overlords decided to break up the (blood) families by making people move to be near jobs. Destroying the deepest connections that we relied on for survival for thousands of years. Raising a child really takes more than two people. When the baby is just born, two people aren't really enough to deal with care and feeding of the baby, let alone go to work and bring home the food.
In the family, in the future, there will be a nursery, where new mothers live together, and many other people (come and go) are there to help. The new mother needs sleep, good sleep. And the newborn baby needs a lot of care and usually does not sleep all night long.
And that is just one aspect that multiple people helping out makes everything so much better.
When you grow your own food, there are times of the year when you need a LOT of help. And others when there really isn't much to do. If everyone is a part time farmer, things like transplanting all your vegetables that you started in the greenhouse.
With a lot of people, you can get a lot of specialization
Who is YOUR family?
You will know them, when you feel at home being near them.
Your family will be people who have similar beliefs and morals as you. The things that you find are essential in another to get along with them.
It is not that Christians will family with other Christians, but it will often seem that way. It is about the morals and the ways of thinking that comes with Christianity, that is essential for people that will work closely with each other.
Not everyone needs the others of the group to be Christian, or Buddhist, but they do need others to have the same sense of right and wrong. Someone who has strong boundaries on personal items, is not very happy with a person who feels everything should be shared. Yes, these two can learn to live together, but when it deal with core beliefs, it is not a good idea to hitch your wagon to theirs.
Why can't we just keep on the way we have?
Because the world we have now is falling apart.
We will soon go through a time when the financial system falls apart. The money, which allowed people to specialize and break apart into single points, will no longer be as we know it now. Getting through this shift will require many transactions to move into the mutual-aid or barter paradigm.
We will soon be going through a time when food is not abundant, and grocery store shelves will be barren. And this will greatly change how you live your life. People will become part-time farmers. And you will want to grow your own food, so that you know it isn't poisoned. Having many extra hands during the planting and harvesting season is really important.
We will go through a time when global transport will be DISRUPTED. A time when we will not be getting things from China. No new microwaves. We will have to rebuild / fix our things for quite some time. People who can fix things are necessary for a family.
There is so many changes coming, disrupting changes, that we will need many other people to keep us living.
Feel the call of your future family. Keep your eyes open for people you feel you can trust. People who will have your back while the world falls apart.
One of the interesting things is that each family will find a business where the family will create something that is wanted by other families, and so now they have something to "trade" with. One family may grow oranges. One family may make plates/ceramic-ware.
Night-life will no longer be like we envision city life to be, but we really haven't gone out at night for over a decade. It is really something that only exists in movies and memories.
However, we will find it so much better to have quality time with people that really know us, than to go to gala with many people we only know a little, if at all. We will reduce and eliminate this loneliness epidemic. We will have people that actually care about whether we exist or not.
Life will be a lot better.