Tiny Homes

I gave in and watched some of the odd recommended videos on Youtube about tiny house living. I get the feeling a lot of the people in these videos never lived in an efficiency apartment or lived with many other people and had to keep their belongings in one little room for long periods of time. Or if they have kids, they never had to make do with a little apartment before they attempted the tiny home living. Most of the people on there act like they had or have decent incomes, but wanted to be able to access more of their income and be less invested in things and invest in experiences. Another side of the movement seems to be pagans trying to get in touch with less consumption and being more in tune with eco friendly ways of living. Another side seems to be Christians who want to be independent and walled off from modern life, some home schooling their kids and such.

What I'm not seeing are people like me who are struggling and living in tiny apartments already. These people spent a lot of money on their homes. It seems they are mobile homes, just designed more originally than the kind of RVs and campers you see for sale around here. This movement doesn't seem to be about giving access to housing to more people. It's about people who had a lot, but wanted to try living on less. Which is all well and good. I get it. Even in my tiny apartment, I want to clear out the crap I have managed to collect. My desire to keep things stems from growing up under the poverty line and not having things, and needing to keep old parts, clothing, blankets, towels, just in case I don't have the money for them next year. Living in this tiny place with two kids hasn't helped me with that desire to stash and store in better times to prepare for the lean times.

I wish I could just buy a tiny home and roam around, making soaps and essential oil concoctions like I kind of planned at the height of my paganism. I still crave that sort of thing. However, I don't believe in it the way I used to, and I never fit in with the pagan circles I found, either. Just like all other groups, I just don't fit in. Therefore, I would be living a lie, and totally inauthentic. I can't do that. It was why I stopped doing readings. I know I was cold reading and using body language and my extreme sense of hypervigilance from growing up with an erratic and sometimes violent parent. It's really, really, really easy for me to figure out what's going on in people's lives and to figure out what is about to happen or if they are harboring physical illness they're ignoring. But to call this talent supernatural is a lie. It's just that most people aren't trained this well from the start of their lives until they finally break free. If it's true that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, perhaps the same can be said for sufficiently advanced people reading skills is indistinguishable from psychic talent.

Anyway, as much as I'd love to break free from the grid and own my own home, the tiny home movement is for people with good enough credit or savings or income to own any kind of home they'd like. Those of us stuck in tiny places we rent are not going to be featured on such series. If I had the choice, though, I wouldn't choose tiny. Maybe mid-sized, not huge. Not tiny, though.

A Bit of a Rant

So, now we have a Ministry of Religion. Well, I'm too old to be conditioned to your Christianity, so I'm getting ready to head to the stake. I've begun to make a list of the people I expect to show up with sticks and marshmallows. Half my coworkers, I'm sure. If I was a Christian, and being the way I am, though, I'd probably be shouting at other Christians about following false prophets and pointing out these motherfuckers' deeds. I know, though, that religion has become the single biggest tribal marker and nothing more. Republican Jesus looks nothing like the things I read when I gave Christianity the old college try.

Anyway, all you haters who fantasize about punishing anyone who is just slightly different than you, congratulations, you're getting your way.

Reconstructionism is something I was just made aware of. I had heard of Dominionists, but I had no idea exactly how convinced some are of being mandated with the task of bringing about the millennium to force Jesus to return. So much so, they are willing to become torturers and murderers to do it. Y'all are fucked up. Your fear and hatred of any slight variation on the human theme is amazing. Simply fucking amazing.

Hello to the "people" from Russia spiking the view count of this blog. I'm not buying anything you're selling.

I still believe in the things I grew up believing about this country. Literal interpretations of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Fighting for everyone to have the freedom to assemble, a free press, and freedom to worship or not worship as the individual sees fit. I also believe in bringing about a safety net for the general welfare of the people. Not just collecting money from me for shooting brown people and stoking the hero fantasies of gun cultists. Look, I'm all for private possession of arms that make sense for personal use. I'm not for cultists amassing arsenals to bring about the End Times. But trying to get through to people who live in a perpetual state of terror of The Other is difficult. Just know that I'm not giving up.

So I fully expect a proper stake and wood pile at my burning. I'll even wear my old pentagram just for you.