Off the Grid
Todd Hayen
When people talk about “getting off the grid,” the image that usually springs to my mind is the full-on pioneer fantasy: selling the house, buying 40 acres in the bush, installing solar panels, drilling a well, raising chickens, and growing enough potatoes to survive the next ice age.
I envy those people. Honestly, I do.
But let’s be real—most of us aren’t cut out for that level of commitment, and most of us don’t need to be -— yet. At least for a little while, we can probably muddle along semi-attached to the system—still buying groceries at Loblaws, paying the hydro bill to whatever soulless utility now owns it, and calling an ambulance if we get flattened by a Tesla.
But after what happened to me this morning—for the umpteenth time—I’ve come to understand “off the grid” in an entirely different, far more urgent way. It no longer means geographical escape. It means digital and bureaucratic escape. It means refusing to let the Machine feed on my time, my sanity, and my personal data one byte at a time.
This morning, I tried to open a simple account with a Canadian service that lets you buy Bitcoin directly through your bank. Now, don’t get me started about Bitcoin, digital currency, gold, silver, and all that crap. That is a hellhole in its own right. I’ll save that for another article down the road (maybe).
What should have taken ten minutes turned into an hour-long descent into perdition. Upload passport. Upload driver’s license. Take selfie. Take another selfie, this time with your firstborn in arms. Turn head 30 degrees so the algorithm can see your left ear. Hold up a piece of paper with today’s date scrawled on it.
Wait.
Wait some more.
“We’re sorry, we cannot verify your identity at this time.”
No explanation. No human to ask. Just the cold, dead eye of the AI staring back.
Eventually, it all must have worked out, as it allowed me to transfer $240 from my bank to the service. My bank said the transfer was accepted and sent the money. The Bitcoin service rejected it and said they were going to refund it. What sense does that make? Apparently, my bank account is in the name “Todd Hayen,” and the Bitcoin service had auto-filled “Todd M. Hayen” from my uploaded ID. A middle initial. One single letter. That was enough to blow the entire process to smithereens. And they offered no solution.
I jumped into chat support. The “agent” was, of course, a bot. I asked, “Are you human?” “No,” it replied cheerfully, “but I’m here to help!” Yeah, you’re here to replace a $60,000-a-year employee with a $100/month server bill, pal.
This is not an isolated incident.
Last year, I spent the better part of two days trying to pay my residual 2024 U.S. taxes (yes, as a Canadian resident and a US citizen, I’m still on the IRS leash). The online form rejected my address every single time. Put “ON” for Ontario? Rejected. Put a comma after the city? Rejected. Space in the postal code? Rejected. No space? Rejected. Ten attempts, 45 minutes of my life gone, until I finally guessed the exact combination of formatting that the robot gods demanded.
Again—no error message that actually told me what was wrong. Just silent, passive-aggressive rejection.
When I applied for US Social Security benefits a few years ago, the errors were so bizarre and the fixes so impossible that the only solution offered was to drive nine hours to the physical Social Security office in Virginia (close to where my sisters live). From Canada. There I talked to a human, a nice one, and all was resolved. And there wasn’t even a problem to resolve. The issue that barred me from success was that their online system would only accept a 5-digit zip code, not the weird alphanumeric Canadian postal code. And the system knew, and accepted, that I lived in Canada (as many Americans still enslaved by the IRS do). WTF??
Remember back in the day, when humans roamed the earth and sat at a customer service desk looking at your documents? If the name on the application was “John B. Doe” and the driver’s license said, “John Brian Doe,” no one would flinch. They just said, “Looks good, sign here.” But now that robots are running the show, this sort of discrepancy blows a circuit.
This is the new soft gulag.
They don’t need to kick in your door at 3am. They don’t need to freeze your bank account with a tweet from Trudeau (back when that is exactly what he did). They can simply make everyday life so frustrating, so exhausting, so humiliating that you voluntarily withdraw from participation.
A death by a thousand verification cuts.
You’re not banned—yet. You’re not cancelled—yet. You’re just…slowly, politely, relentlessly throttled. The algorithm doesn’t hate you; it simply cannot compute you. And because it cannot compute you, you no longer exist in the frictionless digital paradise promised to the compliant. Think how easy all of this would be if someone, or something, actually wanted to mess with you? That’s coming, I’m sure. Maybe it already has, and I am currently on the black list.
I now understand “getting off the grid” as the disciplined, deliberate decision to stop feeding the beast wherever possible. Cash at the farmers’ market. In-person banking with an actual teller who still possesses a pulse. Prescriptions picked up in person, paid for with bills that still have the Queen’s face on them. No more online applications that demand I photograph my dogs as proof of life. No more services that require me to train their facial-recognition model for free while they decide whether I’m allowed to participate in the economy.
The wilderness homestead is romantic, but the real rebellion in 2025 is far more mundane and far more radical: it is the refusal to dance for the machine.
Because every selfie I send, every document I upload, every CAPTCHA I solve is another droplet of my soul transferred into their reservoir. And one day soon, they’ll have enough to recreate me entirely—an obedient digital twin who never questions, never resists, never causes the system to throw an exception error.
I’d rather be inconvenient.
I’d rather wait in line at the bank and talk to a human who might roll their eyes at my old-man rants. I’d rather pay a little more at the independent grocer who still accepts cash. I’d rather drive an extra twenty minutes to a pharmacy where the pharmacist knows my name and doesn’t require me to scan a QR code to prove I’m allowed to buy cough syrup.
So, getting off the grid to me is making the attempt to remove myself from the system, from the machine. Which will probably prove to be more difficult than placing my body and home in the middle of the woods with solar panels on the roof and a 30-gallon-per-minute well in the back yard—up to my neck in last year’s crop of thousands of zucchinis.
No more applications online, no more IDs, no more selfies for verification. This is now what I think of when I hear “getting off the grid.” Engaging with the machine in the way I have described will kill me quicker than dealing with the next scamdemic they have planned for us. At least my death will not be due to a slow boil.
Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here
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Warning to all off-grid’ers. The military is always ahead of us the Resistance.
A new invention Swarming-Ant-Robots can go through the most difficult and large terrain and find all people who are living Off-Grid. Who refuse to pay taxes and refuse to participate and fight in the US Army against all our enemies. 😎 .
https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/US-Army-Tests-New-Swarming-FireAnt-Robots-Designed-to-Hunt-and-Kill-Tanks/
Is this a sales pitch advocating for a harmonized, global, digital ID – where formatting rules are universal regardless of which 15-minute sector you might find yourself anchored to?
The looming digital ID will be sold under the pretext of convenience wherever you might roam. This is why the U.S. is already ahead of the curve with Trump’s External Revenue Service.
It’s a matter of time.
My parents, in their late 80s/early 90s happily use a tv remote control. I thought a humax recorder would be a great idea so I got one for them.
They used it for a week but it was all too much.
I am mid 60s and happily use internet etc.
My grand- children write code.
Once they get rid of those pesky boomers the younger generations will walk willingly into their digital prison.
In my opinion humans are not build to work 50 hrs/week in the cotton fields, neither to do the same later 40 hrs/week at the assembly line work, nor to look into a TV screen from they wake up to when they go to sleep 24/7.
But for some it is an abnormal attempt to try to live and survive the human life as the limitations are given.
Form experience we know there must come some revolt along the road.
As I understand, “riting code” means calls to routines written by unknown persons, sponsored by an IT giant. About a couple of years ago, a bug or failure was traced to an old routine used widely. In Linux before that, someone rising up the ranks tried to add a suspicious routine to the standard library.
The mania of getting young children to program (“code”) rather than other fundamental skills is alarming.
Highly astute comment, with much Acumen, banged to ‘Rites’…
Made me Laugh, from belly
Up, Greetings,
Balky
We boomers live forever. We invented human rights, and we have the right to get more until we die.
If you value your sovereignty over consumerist accoutrements then being off grid, as possible, is the only way to go. Returning to nature and out of these unnatural cities is a return to source.
Good luck.
The vast majority of people still conceive that a job/being employed is now , the same as it used to be, work create or deliver something and get paid.
In fact employees are the job meaning health professionals (and sundry) are the vaccinated, teachers are the indoctrinated and so on in so far as the staff/humans are resources to be used as required. And today the economy, jobs, services,production and so on are not necessary. Staff of a company are more useful as products of corporate propaganda/social engineering and hence “true believers” than as producers of anything.
Humanity is a commodity.
I read somewhere recently: Share worth has replaced human worth
I read somewhere that the goal already in 2026 or latest 2030 is to value every human being after their DigID and the data collected.
Like pigs are being QR stamped and price automatically valued constantly in AI after consumptions, weight and standards and conditions.
This by International investor groups who will provide these ‘services’ to governments.
Like the pigs in question we cant escape because we would just be marked as ‘dangerous’, ‘low value’, ‘loss’, ‘sick meat’, m.m. on the graduation, cost and price lists.
Note that this system goes all the way to and include the top CEOs and CFO’.
One little sidestep or a computer failure, and you can be on a garbage list.
You have to be and have a really sick mind to figure out such an idea.
But who said we should have better conditions than the animals we treat that way.
Demerit points for using a competitor’s product or service.
I lived in a small town in Baja, Mexico for a few years. A family who were of Aztec descent lived near me and the wife was around 40ish. She had a reputation as someone who could cure illnesses. When a serious illness was perceived, she would go out into the desert for a few days and return with a bag of plants and sand. She would then prepare these by various ways, and the final product was given to the sufferer. As I was told, her preparations never failed, and the local doctor confirmed this, although he was unable to explain why. She cured several otherwise fatal illnesses, and she was venerated by the people in the town. A genuine asset for off grid living!
I totally believe it…although I think that would be difficult to find in today’s setting…maybe still back in a small town in Baja.
Its a lot easier to catch fever and die than it is to find some medicine woman at the last second.
Civilization and health did not begin with medical “science”. Just ask the victims sacrificed for profit.
When you get old you can’t live off the grid unless you’re superman. And you can’t do without mainstream medicine. Alternative is fine when you’re young–sometimes–but when you’re old, you’re pretty much stuck with it if you want to continue to live for a while. Yeah, I know, there must be some alternative medicine way that works better than MSM. But who has the courage to experiment? Go off the mainstream and start taking herbs or something? Especially knowing how many alternative medicine operations are just big scams. Nope. Small towns with access to big towns with decent uncrowded hospitals. That is the answer that must be. If you’re old. So get your off-the-grid life out of the way while you’re young. Always remembering you will not be forever so.
Allopathic medicine outside of accident first aid is also pathetic Your own immune system is main, at most boost it with vitamin D supplements plus B12 for vegetarians. Of course keep on walking or light working. Also don’t worry you’re self sick; staying positive is important. The present clearing up of old political rubbish worldwide is needed to to make space for something else. AI is just child’s play for the divine.
Sadly, I agree with you.
Can you work with people that are unvaxxed but don’t share all your views?
Would the Amish be to extreme?
I would recommend living like the old Amish.
But will you be safe in one of their hospitals?
DIdn’t you read my post. I said we have no choice. We must go to their hospitals. Or take our chances with a welter of alternative medicines most of which are scams.
70 yrs old and lived off grid for the last 10 yrs. Stopped going to big med yrs ago. Grow my own clean food and herb garden for meds. 1100 sq ft house, solar, well water. A few bills to pay. Simple living with Wi-Fi as a perk. Live on less than 1000 per month. In my county if you make under 30k per yr your farm property tax can be waived through application.
You know, I tried to find a website, any website (preferably in a particular city) where people who believe like I do that covid was a hoax. You would think, if the internet actually worked, that somewhere a few pages into your search, you would at least find one webpage that agrees with you that covid is a hoax. Because you know they are out there, and you typed covid is a hoax in quotation marks and tried a hundred other alternatives. To no avail.
This is the big problem, the one that is going to kill us. There is no way that we can find a way to connect with each other, the people who believe in non-belief about covid. Because all you can find his hysterical debunkings, thousands of them. I want to be able to go into a city and find like-minded people about this issue. I don’t care about other issues. I know both liberals and conservatives and libertarians, some of them, believe as I believe, that covid is a hoax. But there is no way on earth for us to find one another. Want to do something to help the world? To save the world? Make us up a dating ap “-) I jest. but only slightly. Make us up some way to find each other, so that we can work together and fight together. Or at least commiserate in person. Thank you.
I remember there being a dating app for the unvaccinated. It’s probably still out there. Also tinder added a vaccinated/unvaccinated which was useful but not in the way they intended 😂. This is were, I hate to say it, Facebook was useful as locally I found my people quite quickly with those arguing on local groups against the nonsense. I’ve since come off facebook, well off all social media. Trying to be more present in my community unfortunately most of them seem to be indoors looking at Facebook, insta and TikTok!
I guess you are right.
Aloysius are looking the wrong places. Our equals are where we least expect or want to find them, on Faecesbook or AI king Musk Twitter or Financial Times.
But one thing I have noticed is, that it is important to be able to cooperate even with your opponents on minor issues, if you agree in the bigger questions.
We cant allow ourselves on Doomsday to be too selectives.
Agree with you…wish it were easier. There are small internet communities, but just for yakking…I have not seen any where the people live together, although I am sure they are out there.
My substack is a very nice community…we talk, will soon have weekly ZOOM meetings, etc. A bunch of great people. Join us…
http://www.shrewviews.com
You can try unjected. https://unjected.com/
I actually meant “Dating site” metaphorically. And I wasn’t talking about just me. I meant a site for bringing together like-minded people, lots of them, not for dating, but for discussing what is to be done in person.
Get away from the Anglosphere Todd – if you can’t beat them – leave for where you can avoid them. Two years ago: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/smart-cities-online-safety-bill-birmingham
Colin Todhunter knows the score: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-localisation?s=w
My choice is South Africa, where smart anything is unlikely to work in my lifetime! https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/emigrate-is-the-grass-greener-moving?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=762792&post_id=167087203&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=hhrlz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
If I were not married, I would be out of here.
Yes Todd, my four children in UK have the same restraints – family comes first. Fortunately I am married to a South African lady but the downside is missing my own family.
Ditch the smartphone and go back to a phone for calls and texts only. If sufficient numbers did this it would stop all this digital nonsense.
So right Michael, but it’s ‘convenient’ you see, and that is the problem. The other Gens have been captured and can’t live without ‘Smart’. There will come a time when all the oldies have gone and nobody can remember ‘normal’ and all the trade and craft skills have been lost. Two years ago:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/smart-cities-online-safety-bill-birmingham?sd=pf
But there is a youngster backlash happening!
I hope and pray they do awake to a possible dystopian future before it’s too late, when the gates of the Gulag close.
Nobody will remember OUR normal.
They will have their own normal.
It used to be normal to communicate by mail only. That was normal.
It’s not my normal.
It used to be normal to ride horses for transportation. That was normal.
It’s not my normal.
I don’t like the state of the world at present. I don’t like the music, the (lack of) fashion, the (lack of) civility, the fact that every single person in the gym is looking at their cell phone while working out.
But that is their norm.
I am willing to bet that 71 year olds didn’t like what was becoming my norm back in the day, either.
I do not own the norm. I only have my own.
Lovely Judith, thank you.
And we should shame those who makes it difficult to function without a smartphone. An example here: https://estrand.net/2025/03/06/some-bus-trips-in-hell-and-vicinity/
I have not translated this one into English yet, but one can use Google translate: https://estrand.net/2025/10/26/to-sorte-skjermer-pa-jernbanetorget-stasjon/
All that’s needed is for the same number of people who refused the covid jabs to also dump their smartphones but that seems to be a step too far for most so-called ‘freedom fighters’ I know.
Ditching the phone, agreed by the way, doesn’t make the problem go away, the grid is up.
And many billions are caught in it.
Exactly what I have said to everybody for centuries. If only the 330 millions Americans and the 70 million British would live the correct and right life, I both could and would join the train too.
If babies cry when you smile at them it’s because they can see your aura…
They just give me puzzled vacant looks…
It is so irritating when A.I. “thanks” me, or assures me that “I am important” or any other sentiment that it does not possess. It is the next step up from the former dehumanizing corporate voice recording doing the same thing. Soulless. I would rather have an irate employee cuss me out than receive A.I. praise. At least the irate person has passion and feeling. What is the Kinks song? Little Bit of Emotion.
I used to be that way, still to a degree. Resisted a cell phone until a couple years ago when I moved from a long-time home and landline. Only use a flip phone now for some texts and phone calls. Never loaded an ap or used GPS or even taken a picture. Use cash as much as I can, only use credit unions, keep cash stashes and silver/gold at home, do the emergency preparedness thing, try to shop at small businesses, grow my own food, etc. But a big part of me wants revenge, man. Why should those MFers live like that and me and mine have to be “inconvenienced”? Fuck that, take em out. The rich bastards are pushing this on us, giving us no choice but to drop out of society or go along. They are making it so we have to fucking obey what they want us to do. Screw them. We aren’t going to change things this way, we all have one life to live, and we can’t continue to let these bastards control us. Revolution, baby.
Some day soon, someone in the right place or with the right skill may blow a fuse, and do something about it. Wading deeper into the IT quicksand is the biggest insanity by far, followed by poisoned foods and medicines.
You are my hero.
Not everyone is as Armed as the North Americans. It’s a suicide mission to go after the State. But taking down the power grid might create a window.
The problem is people have misconceptions of what a revolution is.
Then clarify what you mean. As revolution literally means going around and around. Completing a cycle.
What do you mean by revolution?
Change in power, a fundamental transformation of society and government. From them to us. It doesn’t have to be violent with guns, I mean, I certainly agree with you that would be suicide. The idea is to challenge those that rule us, like another declaration of independence. Rather than participate in the endless cycle of elections hoping to elect the right politicians, it’s time to change the systems. That’s a revolution.
Agree, but we’re,worldwide, at different levels of appreciation of the problem and “development”. 3rd world people see Democracy or the voting farce as a utopia in comparison to their lack of systems. Us in the 1st world see a different farce, jeez blame economic exploitation blame advertising. Blame consumerism.
The last ‘revolution” must accept our common needs,no?
That we share common needs.
Our needs must be ring fenced.
That is Imo how to change the prevailing idealogy. To make people see that our needs aren’t communism but true for all.
Otherwise,we’ll get pick off or die watching people fall into the blackhole of technocratic enslavement
Robots were created by second rate “programmers” who produce shite. Sure, they will blame the specs, so okay, I will include the business analysts as mostly shite. The BAs will blame the users for inadequate user testing etc etc …. the shite rolls on.
Humanity keeps on making the same old stupid mistakes, but now they do not have the excuse of trying to save processor time as they did in the past. Modern processors are powerful enough to cope with the inefficient code produced by these second rate bit jockeys.
AI has to be an improvement on the current state of affairs.
I recommend you stop paying US war taxes.
And go to jail. If I grew a pair, I would do that.
Problems with computers often stem from countries being ‘early adopters’. That is, systems are put in place with early versions of technology — if you know what to look for you can see vestiges of punch card based data processing (which was used well before computers were invented) with its reliance on numeric codes, rigid formatting and inability to manage simple input errors like a lost space between names. Now problems get compounded because the fundamentals of the business system don’t change, it just get a technological coat of gloss paint. Add to this communications that are not as reliable as they used to be (modern systems are designed to make money, not provide a service) and the inevitable slew of compatibility issues and its definitely a formula for frustration.Which is dealt with by assuming that I’m some old git that doesn’t understand ‘technology’ (ignore the fact that I’ve developed a lot of it and my frustration is not so much that I can’t make it work as I know only too well why its not working).
A thought about ‘Off the Grid’. In the 70s in the UK it was possible to buy semi-derelict smallholdings or rent farm cottages cheaply. (The farmhands who once lived in those cottages preferred a new build semi in the village with central heating and easy access to shops and school.) A whole generation learned that living somewhat back to nature really only works if you’re prepared to work dawn to dusk — literally — or you’ve got a trust fund stashed somewhere. Those derelict buildings eventually got sold off and converted into bijou residences, charming getaways for well heeled urban folk. (Now everyone plus dog is trying to rent them on AirB&B.)
What? I tried to make a comment but first it said I had to change my password. I tried changing it but have no clue how, so I called the number at the bottom and got put on hold, then a message came on and told me to verify that I’m a human by pressing 5. So, I pressed 5, then an add came on for a drug that cures herpes except sometimes it kills people or gives them heart attacks and strokes. So, I logged off the computer and turned off all my lights and had a beer, then I turned the computer back on and presto, I could make a comment. But I forgot what I was going to say, so never mind. Now my stove doesn’t work.
Close down your stove, drink another beer, and your stove will be fine!
Might be on to something Erik.
Yesterday was 22 November 2025 and, honestly, i lived the entire
day without once stumbling upon any mention / reference to that
fateful date 62 years ago…
Historical Amnesia really works ?
Unbelievable…
Wow. Me, too. I was talking about it on the day before yesterday with a neighbor.
In the context of “we saw what happens when you seriously go up against the powers (military industrial complex) – 63 years ago in broad daylight”.
Ole’ Texas School Book Depository, ‘gnarly’ grassy Knoll … narratives.
As & when, droppeth the Tap. 😂 scheduling psyops , Financially. . .
Sound observations Les, less online everywhere :
same people, same Day… same reasons.
Nuclear Arms Discussions.
Age of Disclosure.
Alien Life Forms ? &
Thought Procedures…
No training, whatsoever…
& wholly incompetent, if not,
Incontinent. 😂 By now, people
Should catch on ✌ slaving to newscycles,
& SpaceX blewit ‘ Bang on Time to be distracted from.. .
Do Watt WTF… Gazumped on Gaza-unpeg Palestinian Rights. ! ?
From the U?N.? Peace Force please. ? Not Land Theft.
U.S. Military Planning ? Another Ukrainian example ?
Let history repeat wash & rinse the Bloodied streets ?
How about moving the U.N. to Palestinian Freeport Gaza.
No Tax Zone: Funding for Startups & Sunday Soup kitchens,
Prepared on board Aircraft carriers, initially, Chinese & Russian,
Keeping the Peace, simultaneously monitoring Israel,
Under immediate suspicionS,
Also most Nuclear to the ‘Core’
Greetings les,
Balky
Get over it les.
Lee Harvey Oswald did it and got his judgement. The Night Club freak also got it. There are nothing more to it.
Our children have enough to deal with in today’s transition to hear about an old case..
Spooky Todd.
We lived in our self built, solar passive, straw-clay home, with a veggie cage and fruit trees, on forty acres (fair dinkum) for twenty years until the isolation, workload, old age and regular threat of bushfires became too stressful for my wife.
We both miss our small, cosy home, but living in a small town with good neighbours is just so much easier and convenient. And we still have enough room for backyard Permaculture. Off grid is hard work and probably best suited to a young family.
BTW, I’ve written a folk/rock song about algorithms, and it ain’t complimentary! Could post it here if you’re interested.
Indeed, a small town is better than a lone house or a big city for physical grid.
Equally important is to move out of standard Western meme and emotional grids which reside mostly in your brain. Off that grid, into the Intuitive grid. Experiment, you’ll find out by direct self experience.
So true. It’s so liberating waking off that plantation, accepting you will lose many friends and family but eventually finding a few true souls.
Agreed Johnny, I too had a small holding in UK for 25 years and brought up my family on organic foods, goat milk etc – you know the thing. Like you – age impacted the necessary hard work so I went south to find the sun! https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-localisation?s=w
Yes, post your song!!
Here are the lyrics Todd;
ALGORITHMS (May 2017).
Those algorithms gonna steal our beat
Got us all worked out from our heads to our feet
Yeah, those algorithms gonna size us up
Every part of us is up for grabs
What we wear, watch and eat, all the good and the bad
Yeah, those algorithms gonna suck our blood
(Chorus)
(There’s an algorithm with your name on it
Take it as a given, they know your shit
There’s an algorithm behind every click
They’re all greed driven by psychopathics)
Those parasites they want it all
They want us at their beck and call
Yeah, those parasites have got us fucked
Those algorithms they’re like deep gold mines
Digging 24/7 searching for signs
Yeah, those algorithms got us by the nuts
(Chorus)
Those algorithms gonna steal our best
Got us all worked out from our heads to our feet
Yeah, those algorithms gonna size us up
They sneak into our heads and under our skin
Those hungry creeps wanna know everything
And the weird part is; we are their willing sluts
(Chorus).
😔Like hundreds of my songs, I haven’t recorded this one yet.
One day _ _ _ _
Nice…!! You could always get AI to record it for you! No point in being creative these days…
Every fucking time – pending.
Funk Dat’ – Sagat 93:- why is it, every time I go to com-ment, I go pen-Ding ? 😂
https://youtu.be/iOFKU_hwj2o?si=xP45p-UrIKtcL-Fy
Preston Rabl. Mr. P.R. – W.P.P. ain’t interested in any Committee, socially.
Get off the digital control grid by smashing it, and take down the system of rule behind technology designed for our enslavement. It’s them or us.
Quite so CC and the Brits have no idea: two years ago it became obvious: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/smart-cities-online-safety-bill-birmingham
Spot on article! One of my pet peeves is put in Vernon Cole’s words here:
“If you order anything online, you will be bombarded with emails. There will be a message to say that the purchase has been made, one to say that your order is being dealt with, another to let you know that the item has been passed to the delivery company, one to let you know that the delivery company has received the package, one to inform you that the delivery company is preparing to deliver the item, one to let you know that your purchase is on its way and one to tell you that the package has been delivered. Then you will receive an email from the seller to let you know that the delivery company has done their job and delivered the item, or something intended for someone else.”
I’d add to this the email that follows all of that requesting a review about the seller’s service and the product received.
Though I prefer to buy in person from specialist shops, they unfortunately are few and far away, so often online purchasing is the only way here.
forgot the reference:
Then you may get an email asking you to fill out their survey. After that, ads about upcoming sales, etc. etc. They’re trying to kill us with frustration.
Why English only leads to mediocre consciousness, in contrast to German, is that it consists of too many non-Germanic “air root words.” This may seem contradictory at first, because our scientific and “cultivated” language is dominated by foreign words.
American thinking moves on the surface, as if it lacks the tentacles to feel the animalistic basis or as if these have been linguistically regressed. Presumably, Anglo-Americans therefore cannot initially relate to the phrase “Imagination makes the truth stick.”
Here, a North Germanic Swede attempts to teach a hybridized Anglo-American octopus to play the piano. After a long period of experimentation, he appears to succeed, although the octopus can predict horoscopes but has no sense of hearing.
Beautiful…
❤
Tako’s got more talent than a lot of heavy metal bands I’ve heard.
Eight arms! There’s a few drummers that would kill for that.
I am amazed at the numptyness,
who the hell buys crypto from a bank?
That is like buying drugs from the poilce – then crying when arrested.
Your on off guardia, which has solution watch and many other authors who can get currency from more decent sources, so you lead by example to others as your a author who has woken up.
What next getting a medsmigaorganic vaccine from RFK jr/ Trump because it is aluminium free!
I didn’t say I was buying FROM a bank, I said I was paying for it from my bank account. “Through my bank”…which means I pay for it through the bank. Maybe I was not clear.
Hopefully you’ll do that follow-up article on why you buy bitcoin.
I bought very little, and what I did buy tripled. I have clients who pay me in Bitcoin, so whatever.
Great article and to the point. Make yourself ungovernable.
Been doing this for what seems like years
And we also have solar, our own well, chickens, grow food, pay cash for most things. It is not hard, it is a state of mind.
Yes J – We, the people, give our power away by compliance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwD4rQPbvPY&t=358s
And the Brits have no idea: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/smart-cities-online-safety-bill-birmingham
I agree it would become a state of mind. And as I have said many times, I am married to a “mainstreamer” and I want to stay married. If I were alone, I would definitely “try” the physical off-grid thing…
Surprised it’s taken you this long to finally catch on. Know why? Convenience. You partook and enabled all of this rather than drive 20 minutes to fetch your medication, pay cash and actually go inside you bank. Therefore, don’t complain!
Not me. I refused to be part of any of it and that’s what I tell everyone who continues to berate me. In fact I just had this very conversation yet again with someone who constantly chastises me.
I asked, what would happen if there was a massive cyber attack? How would he function and do something so mundane as getting into his house which is now all computerized. He told me he’d be wiped out financially as every single thing he does and owns is on-line. His savings, his retirement, everything! Yet . . . he said he wouldn’t change any of it.
I on the other hand haven’t watched nor owned a TV in 25 years. I still use cash as I’ve never even owned a CC (money you don’t actually have) my car is a 2001 Buick, and I would die before I ever got a Smart Phone (? not even sure if that’s what they’re called.)
I have a flip phone that I leave in the car – only because my job requires I have a phone. I still use maps and cant believe all these imbeciles have yet to figure out GPS is now actually in the business of traffic control, sending you all over creation. I laugh how people just do as it tells you, never questioning any of it! 17 cars/day were driving into a sandpit for the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City before they corrected the problem.
I refuse to comply simply because I decline to be part of this game and or enable any of it. If people would just STOP and realize where this is all headed, perhaps they would. You cant even collect unemployment anymore without having to jump through all these hoops surrendering every ounce of your privacy.
You want to talk about frustration, you’ve not encountered anything until you’ve had to deal with ID.me here in the States. If you refuse to submit your identity on-line and try and schedule an in-person verification appointment, it gives you error message. It’s all a deliberate and intentional ruse. The employee’s at the UPS store say people come in so irate they fear for their lives. That’s who ID.me hooked up with for in person verification.
All my friends say I am so off the grid – basically I’m living in the 70’s and have no qualms.
Speaking of irate customers at service desks, here in Australia there are signs at post offices and all sorts of other places that warn customers that irateness WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! Whenever I line up at any of these places everyone is as docile as a lamb. I wonder what they are seeing coming…..
Those signs are a vexing issue, but I understand it from both perspectives. Some customers can get very nasty and two or three in one day could be psychologically debilitating.
We need vaccines for tolerance.
Maybe the person or machine handing out queue numbers can also provide joints.
Same in Canada…
Signs posted at the administrative counters of government services and all government-licensed services (health care practitioners, financial institutions, swimming pools, ice arenas etc.) specify that customers will be denied service if they don’t treat employees with ‘respect’. Hmmm… respect is of course, earned.
Most people speak civilly to government service employees unless and until said employees are rude to and/or incompetent in delivering service – at which point it is natural not to respect the rude/incompetent employee.
Increasingly often (but obviously not always the case), I’m seeing bored, apathetic, poorly-trained employees manning these various service counters, so civility is the best they can expect!
That just means the service needs to be automated!
By AI.
Good one BJAG – on target – https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/digital-id-hmg-budget-wake-up-us-95d?r=hhrlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
I’m living in the 50s here in South Africa! https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/emigrate-is-the-grass-greener-moving?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=762792&post_id=167087203&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=hhrlz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Slavery to IT goes with slavery to electricity. There need not be any evil intent such as cyber-attack or military (EMP bomb) attack. The Sun alone can send us all back to the Stone Age.
cyber polygon, great reset, great taking.
Where can you still get maps?
As Blur once sang – Modern Life is Rubbish.
No glory. No honour. No code. No togetherness. Just flawed systems and reduced humans.
That’s it everything is moving to online – banks are closing at an alarming rate in Britain – and if you don’t have online banking – life will get pretty tough, more people now pay with their phones and cards than cash, and eventually cash will be fazed out – once online and and if the Eye of Sauron notices that you are making a fuss – say (blogging about how bad things are getting, especially if people are listening to you) – then they can make life difficult for you – you can never truly leave the grid for we all need cash, in one form or another to buy food, but you can reduce your visibility considerably.
You can if inclined buy a micro- caravanette for under £10,000 or even convert an old van yourself it doesn’t have to be perfect – this will get you a good part of the way off the grid – live in your mini-caravanette, and park in a different place every day – you just need to be committed – though if you have a partner or children it won’t be so easy to upsticks and leave it all behind.
We cant live as homeless or gypsy in a little cold caravanette. It will never work. We would go down under in less than 4 weeks.
Walking to the social office once a month to collect food stamps changing them to beer and cheap whiskey. What a life. No!
The picture to this article is the right way. Be the one the commies hated so much, – a Kulak.
And independent who earned his money by selling something talented and useful to his neighbours; hairdresser, carpenter, musician, gardener, architect, engineer, plumber, playing cards with hidden extra aces, m.m.
Excellent advice RoS but – you need to be in a warm place, south of the equator, and you could travel there: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/emigrate-is-the-grass-greener-moving?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=762792&post_id=167087203&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=hhrlz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Friends of ours refurbished their house in the 1970s and borrowed our caravan to live in for 18 months. They froze up in winter and had to move out.
is that you, Julius Malema? Because when things including the digital bio convergence refuse to work in your vaunted South Africa, it is going to be whitey’s fault no? Or maybe you are black and unaffected, you hope.
By the way, living off grid, as it were, hasn’t turned out too well for white South African farmers since 1994 has it now? And driving your self-sufficient campervan around countryside there will not be the same as doing it in Western Europe, I imagine?
I would love to join you there. SA is quite a wonder country. I have lived in BR a couple of years and I guess SA cant be worse with red tape and crime.
What if you can’t buy petrol – you may need an up-to-date I.D. to buy your allocated quota of petrol. Your I.D. may be useless unless you’ve had all the jabs, obeyed all their rules, etc.
Canadian service that lets you buy Bitcoin directly through your bank.
Nothing beats fighting the deep state and sticking it to BIG brother with a de centralized account and being your own bank.
Totally anonymous, Untraceable, Untrackable ???
Heavily promoted via alternative media and the fringe movement.
They managed very well in the 18th century: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-off-grid?r=hhrlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
One answer is local finance using Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes as indicated above.
I’m surprised that you initially went along with uploading everything for your bitcoin. That should have warned you right away that it is ALL a giant SCAM!!!! I resist it all, no matter the consequences, no smart phone either.
So true Betsey – DO NOT COMPLY and the Brits have no idea what is coming down the line: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/smart-cities-online-safety-bill-birmingham
Todd is a normie or let us be polite, he at least is writing for normies. Doing everything the governments says as long as it leads to more in the pocket.
When it leads to unpleasant blind gates the normie gets upset and outraged and start whining for somebody to change it and to arrive and do something about it.
The politicians, Trump, Nato, his wife, his reserve wives, his neighbour, whoever must do something.
When nobody arrives he write an angry article to a newspaper or a angry letter to his representative threatening to vote for somebody else the next time there is election.
A new incident will arrive and demand he pull his pants down and show his bare butt in a east south angle to the camera before he can get something, and as a cooperative worker he will do it because he is hoping.
When same result appear on the score board = 0, the same broken record starts up again again. 😠 .
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Now, about opting out the grid… Yes!!! It can be gradual, or partial. Buy groceries and also setup an indoor vertical farm in your apartment. No need to buy a hut in the mountains. Although that would be lovely. crypto and stuff… the freedom people could, besides participating in the formal economy, still do crypto for Freedom. Check Monero. But even if you are one who dogmatically oppose crypto, fine, trade in silver coins or gold coins or fiat coins with your offgrid buddies… whatever you like, just use something else than fiat.
One thing that prevents many people from living the offgrid dream is that they actually dream a primitivist dream void of all technology whatsoever. And that is all fine and dandy, except that that world doesn’t exist anymore. Not even among the Amish/Menonites. I would love to live in Rivendale with the Elves, but that is not a real place either. Whether we like it or not, superior technology always wins, and if we aim to break free from the control grid(or even defeat it), whether from a cabin in the woods or from an apartment on main street, we must use technology to our advantage.
Technology that you don’t use in your favor, is technology that will be used against you.
Wellsaid Hikari – the Amish have a workable model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZI58MO3kE
You don’t need to live on the side of a mountain to get “away from it all”…..
You’d simply dump all of your devices, because that’s the only place which terror/horror/war, etc reside
Somnambulists beware.
Wonderful place.
I feel you. But it is not just the clankers… doen in Mx you still have humans, and they could not be any more inept that the bots. Somebody designed those clanker systems, and that somebody simply wasn’t too bright… like those who decided to rename Trutch street with šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm street. The algorithm simply conceals the negative iq individual who was put to the task of building those systems up.
The future is retard old man.
What a brilliant article. Right to the point! Thanks Todd!
Money and AI make people fools, as your incident with them shows.
They steal your time. So they steal your life.
That’s because they are tools of the Devil.
They make your life more difficult than it should be. They make you work for them. But you don’t get any benefit, as they get all the benefits. Their owners get benefits. You lose.
And you get angry. You’re frustrated. Maybe you start to hate your life, humanity and God. That’s when the Devil would really rejoice.
Refuse the Devil. Don’t play with it. Refuse its lies, its dictates, its orders.
The Devil has more against you than just money and AI. But the Devil is always against you. Realize that. And fight.
A perspective and suggestion all paradigm rejecters ought take to heart (will likely have to).
“A few days ago, The Economist wrote an
article about ‘MAGA fertility fanatics’ who
are calling for Americans to have more babies.”
https://www.amren.com/videos/2025/11/europe-will-not-surrender/
https://www.amren.com/news/2025/11/soros-funded-group-behind-lawsuit-to-stop-dhs-fining-illegal-aliens-for-failing-to-self-deport/
It should say “Barcley Bram wrote an
article for the Economist,” Mr. Taylor.
https://x.com/uubzu/status/1987268802003018250
https://x.com/Gentilenewsnet/status/1821995929689624785
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Lansky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vixen_Media_Group
Israeli-born feminist Carmon, who landed a bestseller hyped by the Jewish mass media with her biography of the monstrous Jew-witch Bader Ginsburg, wants to completely discourage white American women, who are increasingly childless, from giving birth to future potential anti-Semites and fascists.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-are-the-key-takeaways-fro-EH5ONg8zQqyalAYQ4gZ6ZA
In Israel itself, her book would probably be banned as “harmful treason against the Jewish people.” In America, however, she proves to be a useful propagandist in the self-annihilation of the Amalekite goyim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irin_Carmon
Her Jewish host “Keen” promotes her wholeheartedly, even cynically in a recent video in which another guest tries to convince Americans that they are “complicit in Nazi euthanasia” through her own book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Keen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne_Antonetta
Mr. Keen gratefully takes up Carmon’s thesis that quasi-fascist MAGA cultists – and not they, the presumptuous Jews as overlords of foreign countries – determine which embryos have a right to life.
American women should be granted “pro-choice” rights, the “productive right” to decide and take responsibility for their mass abortions in a “self-determined” manner (my body, my choice), in order to prevail against the burgeoning racist-Christian pro-life efforts.
What Jews like Keen, Carmen & Co regularly conceal, deliberately and intentionally exploiting the general ignorance of their audience (kept stupid by the Jewish media, which never reports on it), is that, of course, America’s entire “reproduction industry” has long been firmly in Jewish hands.
Jews largely decide which Americans are allowed to see the light of day, as was revealed 20 years ago in the unfortunately little-known German documentary “Frozen Angels.” Jews own the gene institutes, the sperm banks, the “surrogate mothers” industry.
Among others, the hyperbolic radio host Bill Handel (in the manner of Jerry Springer) and the “reproduction expert” Cappy M. Rothman appear in it. In an outburst of Jewish megalomania, Handel claims that “Jews can do anything because they are God.”
https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Frozen_Angels
Keen’s current Shabbos-Schiksa Paola, aka Antonetta, is interviewed here by Diane R. Wiener, a “proud Neuroqueer, Mad, Crip, Gender Nonconforming, Ashkenazic Jewish Hylozoist Nerd.” https://archive.is/NWyiY