‘WEIRD’ – A Free Range Journal, Issue No.4, Midsummer 2021
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This tortuous pathway of disengagement, ‘untechnical support’, is a process of liberation through basic re-skilling. That’s not just about learning practical skills again; it is about building confidence in a person’s own power to discern what is right for them.
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Issue No.4 Contents
- Introduction: ‘Untech Support’
- People need help to ‘uninstall’ technology since its use is innately de-skilling.
- History file: Part 5,‘Tools for Conviviality’
- Ivan Illich’s 1973 book on human society, technology, and ecological crisis.
- Are You ‘WEIRD?’: The answer may surprise you!
- The technocracy behind the networked world is disconnected from reality.
- We need a mass ‘uneconomic consumption’ movement
- We are told to measure ourselves by economic factors. Is the fastest route to change to opt out of that delusion?
- ‘Couch to 5 nights camping’?
- The only cheap, available space for anyone to learn the skills of simple living is ‘the outdoors’ – and the Whitehall government is trying to criminalise that.
- Marketing as a form of psychological abuse
- How advertising & marketing morphed into ‘strategic communications’, and became organised corporate ‘mass abuse’.
- Wild tea making and the revolt against the machine
- Brew a bowl of rosehip tea on a hill is a gateway towards a lifestyle revolution.
- Numerical Ramblings: ‘Why own-grown potatoes are better energy storage devices than lithium-ion batteries’
- People obsess about electricity-producing technologies. Seldom do they think about the potential of something more hum-drum, like their food.