[EEGator]

I do a couple “crazy things”.

I exercise and eat healthy.
I have no social media.
I read books.
I meditate.

[deport]

I have no social media.

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What is your definition/description of ‘social media?

[entropy12]

What is your exercise routine and how often you exercise?

[DesertRhino]

Maniac…

“you! number 42, get back in line!”

[Manuel OKelley]

Your social credit score will be lower appropriately for being a threat

[ought-six]

“I exercise and eat healthy. I have no social media. I read books. I meditate.”

I’m in my 70s, and I’ve been physically active my entire life. I still am, but time and years have taken their toll, such that I can’t do all the things I used to do. I still do most of them, but not as well.

As for eating “healthy?” I eat to fuel my body, and the more enjoyable consuming that fuel, the better.

Social media? You’re on social media, because FR is, really, social media.

Reading? I’ve been an avid reader since I was a little kid. I grew up in a house that was overflowing with books. Everywhere I’ve lived I’ve had a library card, and getting that card was at the top of my “to-do” list when I moved to a new location. When my wife and I bought our house, one of the main things we looked for was room for our books (we had 7,000 volumes back then).

Meditate? I take cat naps, and always have. And daydreaming is so entertaining, and relaxing. That is my meditation.

[nathanbedford]

It is hard to identify and more iconic figure of a libertarian pioneer than Daniel Boone.

He became famous for moving away from civilization to find individual liberty. Born in relatively well-settled Pennsylvania, he made his way to the Shenandoah Valley where he became a hunting companion of my ancestor. As The Valley became more populated, he moved on to North Carolina and repeated the pattern there moving on to Kentucky. Always, it seems, chased by the strictures of his encroaching neighbors he fled until he ended up at the end of his life, blind, toothless in Missouri.

My point: even Daniel Boone, as brave and hearty as he was, could not ultimately escape the tentacles of government by fleeing from it.

Daniel Boone did not read books, he could barely read at all, he certainly had no access to social media as we know it or even much social engagement beyond the borders of civilization, we have no way of knowing if he meditated but he certainly exercised robustly and ate a farmer and a hunter's diet. But in the end, he ran out of geography as he ran out of lifespan.

The moral: paths of escape by the Daniel Boone method closed even before the frontier closed. The more modern method is to retreat within ourselves, to become the unwitting plaything of the media, social and otherwise, and to exist , or submit, as a piece of flotsam on waves of onrushing social forces.

It is only rational to turn our faces from the futility of our current political reality and seek our libertarian salvation by withdrawal rather than confrontation. It will work no better in the 21st century than it did in the 18th.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

I do a couple “crazy things”.
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You’ve almost perfectly described my lifestyle, which however does include frequent vacation travel here and in Europe.