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And when ends are not being met you realize that publishing is broken too & start looking for alternative ways to bring your writing to the masses directly & eventually discover Substack. At least that's more or less how I ended up here... Great post! (Btw I'd recommend Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow on how bad publishing is broken & how it might be fixed.)

And you're in Austria too?! There seem to be quite a few of us here!

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Thanks! Haha yeah, I'm surprised how many of us there are!

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The crackdown on the right to assemble and protest in the U.S. is happening here, too. Manuel Esteban Paez Terán was shot to death in his tent for being part of a small group protecting a forest area. I focus on the #ClimateEmergency and fully expect more of this. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-real-eco-terrorists

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Preach. I feel like I'm just about to fall off of the corporate ladder myself. It's so overwhelmingly depressing. I'm finally at a point in my life where I'm making good money, and I'm miserable and exhausted. I just want off of this stupid treadmill.

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Yeah, I get you. Many others feel the same. It's just... empty.

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Thank you Antonio🙏 And I am sure it is a question of when. Even if people,would not like to change the way we are living now, the world and nature will change it. This current system is unmaintainable and that is a fact. We will run out of resources and will not be able to maintain it. So the question is just when it will all collapse. For my part I’m currently trying to work my way to a position where I can begin to learn to live in a radically different way before everything collapses. This way I hope that by the time everybody needs to change the way of living I have already learned something and I can help,and teach others.

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That's a great attitude and a great way of preparing! I want to go this way myself, but got a lot of work ahead of me for sure. Keep it up!

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I so very badly want to sit down and have a coffee or a beer with you! HMU if you are ever in Portugal!

I'm a business major who became a "radical" anti-capitalist socialist while working for the corporate propaganda arm of a certain Ivy League business school because I, a person born into a working class family who has experienced poverty for more of my life than not, saw how the capitalist sausage was made and found out just how revolting the whole system is.

I worry sometimes that my unwillingness to quietly go along with it all and keep my head down is going to drive a permanent wedge between my fiancée and myself. She's as anti-capitalist and socialist as I am, but desperately wants to just live out her life as peacefully as possible now that we've finally escaped to Portugal, but I can't bring myself to do that and get frustrated that she can even think of doing so. I don't even know how to carry on a conversation anymore that doesn't end up upsetting her.

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I I'm ever in Portugal - which I intend to be, head Lisbon and Porto are amazing - I'll make sure to contact you! And I definitely see where you're coming from...

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Porto *is* amazing! I'm not as fond of Lisbon lol. But as a Porto resident, I'm a bit biased! Portugal is wonderful.

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Bravo! For telling it as it is. Fortunately for me, your aspirations to wealth and fame vanished after serving and knowing such as their servant for a few years (i.e. the Jet Set). Seeing what was coming I strived, experimented, to live in harmony with our planet. Living on a small boat through the 80s and avoiding the madness of corporate employment, etc... But, our world did not end as fast as I anticipated.... momentum!

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Thanks Peter! Keep experimenting and living the life, it's what I will try to do!

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I do at 81, bike, kayak fish and limit all travel to a 100km radius. Really not hard to minimize one's impact and appreciate our environment, an ongoing lifestyle.

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That sounds amazing! I'm planning a great two-month solo-trip across the Austrian alps. Will write about that soon. I'm already beyond excited

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My first ski trip was to st. Anton, Zurs @ 1956!

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First of all, be honest about your reasons to rebel. A refugee in Austrian society..hmm doesn’t sound like a fair start. I doubt that you ever will be fully accepted in mainstream society unless you conform/surrender. Yes, a reason to be angry, I've been there too:). But anger is never the solution. Stop reacting against the system, change the state of play. Be and live the world you really want. That is the only true revolution. Because the system needs you....the big secret they don't tell you (because of the power it gives you) is that you are tomorrow's system. And finding the right path for yourself is fucking hard work, but the journey is worth every minute of it. As you keep finding gems on the path. Some of the ones I found over the years are Systemic Consensus (which I hope will replace divisive democracy one day - as it is radical on a very fundamental level) https://sk-prinzip.eu/ - see it in action at 12:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsO-b0_r-5Y ECG https://www.ecogood.org/what-is-ecg/ To me the real hero’s of the future > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UaHip9P1tQ&list=LL&index=242&t=12s and this guy went the full mile > https://www.fermedubec.com/ I just bought his 1000 page resource book. Many youngsters are experimenting > https://projectkamp.com/ and some will certainly succeed! So stop wasting valuable time on the status quo if you want to change it:)

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As an American who escaped to Portugal by the skin of my teeth, I have been keenly aware of this conundrum. I not only fear being disruptive in my new home country because I don't want to end up being kicked back to the U.S., I actually don't feel very inclined to because I am just so grateful to be here and love the Portuguese people. Besides, here they are so much more environmentally conscious and far more green than the U.S. My own carbon footprint has shrunk dramatically as a result of moving here.

So for me, I figure I can be of the most use from my relatively safe position to attack the climate violators in the U.S. from the digital space. And so I write here on Substack.

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Good. ILovy you lovely American people Thankfully. Help mee...

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