If you want the best answer to your question you’re likely to find.
For a take on dropping out solo there’s “The Man Who Quit Money”
I also found the
book Into the Wild inspirational
If you can find it Hippycore Zines by this guy
https://www.google.com/amp/s/profane...this-week/amp/
Joel Olson doesn’t sugarcoat it
Trying to live outside the economy either alone or communally, according to everything I’ve read, is ****ing brutal.
1) almost everything in America is legally structured to make it as close to impossible as possible
2) supply and demand works against you : ****loads of people want what you’re talking about so space in a self-sustaining outsider community is precious
If everybody is offering heart you gotta offer more than heart
And once you’re competing for skills it’s just a reorganization of the f uckhery we already have
It seems like you’re saying you’d like to be a subsistence farmer with a safety net
You put in the sweat equity and the group takes care of you
but unless your commune is a complete society the government has a monopoly on safety nets
and if it is a complete society you’re beholden to it
You don’t want a cult
It’s like wanting to be a writer
It’s so hard it’s almost impossible
We’re not going to have access to your vision (which is the vision of escaping the paradigm of capitalism) unless we deconstruct our current power structure
That cannot be done by voting or any traditional political methods