Your life depends on millions of people.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

Your life depends on millions of people.
You and I need millions of people.
We can’t know them all. We will never meet them all. But, self-sufficiency is an illusion, often an expensive and thinly drawn one at that. The more high tech and comfortable your life is? The more true this is.

I do not care if you have a cabin in the woods. I do not care if you “reject modern medicine” —

This is one of those things I find “obvious” but I can imagine it starting a big argument for some.

[lj@zirk.us]

@futurebird the whole myth of independence needs to get blasted into the face of the sun.

Humans survived only because of interdependence, cooperation and community. That was true in our anthropological past and is still true.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] I kind of want someone to respond with "I live in a cabin in the woods! I'm self sufficient! I depend on no one" because then, you know, how are you posting that response buddy you have magic ethernet powers? you just think and your thoughts propagate across the internet via ActivityPub?