Am I Losing My Mind?

[Ninurta]

Bureaucracies are why I live in a hermit shack in the woods, and take pot-shots at anything I see creeping up the roadway!

You ought to publish a book about your experiences and then I can buy it and learn how to upgrade my life as well.  Kind of like "On Walden's Pond" for the 21st Century.

LOL! It'd be a short book! :

Step 1 - find a place in the woods.

Step 2 - Live there.

Step 3 - If you see something moving, shoot it. If it has 4 legs, skin it and eat it. if it only has two legs, drop it into the deepest hole in the ground you can find, and leave it there.

THE END

Now, there ARE some nuances involved. For example, location, location, location. It has to be far enough into the woods that random strangers don't trip over your doorstep, but close enough to civilization that Walmart can find it to air-drop grocery deliveries.  That keeps you from having to venture forth into civilization, where you run a high risk of running into...

... Bureaucrats.

Also, you have to deal with satellite providers for phone service and internet, if you really have to have those things. The alternative is to pay out thousands of dollars to have hard lines ran way back into the deep, dark scary woods where you live (remember what happened to Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel there?). Another alternative, which I have used before, is to find a service that can provide high speed wireless and phone service through something like 4G or 5G. That had the advantage of no wires coming into the house that could be cut by attackers to prevent emergency communications with the outside world, but it had the disadvantage of having to be too damned close to civilization to get a signal.,

Wireless options that don't involve satellites are a no-go at this station. The mountains are too high, the valleys too deep, to allow signals to enter without coming from almost straight overhead. The sun only hits here between about 10 AM and 3 PM - all else is more or less twilight, just brighter or darker twilight. We had a local council to discuss the possibility of having extra sunshine piped in, but decided it would be cost prohibitive.

Life is full of trade-offs!

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