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  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Recently read a news article about a Belgian guy who quit his jobs after years of working and is now going on a several month (years, maybe?) quest to find Bigfoot in desolate areas of Canada.

    He believes Bigfoot should be living there.

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      2 years ago

      this is explainable by alienation, people have done the same thing for less stakes like leaving their office job to take care of sheep in the mountains edit: so in this case it might not be about bigfoot so much as its about a road trip in canada

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        2 years ago

        Makes sense. I am currently watching a guy on YouTube who bought 6 acres of land on a mountain in the Italian Alps, building a homestead from a ruin on the plot. He said he wanted to do so because mundane work life drove him crazy. He’s done stuff before like going on a two year bike trip from Vancouver to Patagonia. He said that he just wanted to feel tired again, to be connected to nature instead of constantly living in a work focussed society and to learn how to build thing from scratch.

        He really makes me think about what I’m doing with my life.

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          it was definitely a big thing a couple years ago and still is i think especially after primitive technology got viral. people yearn for something else than this alienating capitalist life and are limited in what they can do ab it in capitalism