A nonplussed character wearing a feathered leather hat and a backpack full to bursting says to a disgruntled man “aight it’s been real but im disappearing into the woods forever.”
The would-be hermit turns only his eyes toward the man as he raises his arms in frustration and shouts “you can’t just fuck off into the woods, you have to stay here!”
The man’s expression softens into confusion as his conversational parter’s backpack comes to the fore of his vision as he simply departs. A narrator adds “but he could. And he did.”
The traveler is seen at great distance as the man continues looking on. The narrator continues. “And no one ever saw him again.”
nonplussed character
nonplussed /nɒnˈplʌst/ The word nonplussed traditionally means surprised, confused, and unsure how to react (left at a loss for what to say or do).
TIL, if I heard this word used in a less clear context I’d assume it’s like tier 3 lgbt slang or something lmao.
Going to disappear and leave only this meme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke The linked person did this for a couple decades in alaska. Yearly trades with a friend who came over by seaplane and landed on the local lake. they exchanged some goods, i think Proenneke made some oils from the wilderness and the visitor brought like medicine and shoes or something. He eventually had to come back to society because he couldn’t chop enough wood to keep himself warm in the winter anymore.
Richard(Dick) Filmed himself setting up and his first year or couple years. This was edited into 3 or 2 films (Alone in the wilderness). you should look for them online, they are available for free if you look in the right spots. I think there’s 4 hours of edited film in total of his story.
Inb4 he got eaten by a bear several days into his new life.
good news is - after you die, they will make a movie and after seeing it, a few dozen people will try to replicate your steps and die in the process, so you will inspire quite a few people!
I can assure you it’s not just a masculine urge
My plan too, was supposed to have done it by now. But I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of.
But I will start saving in secret again when I can and fuck off somewhere.
One day, no one will ever see me again, and many will certainly celebrate.
But I’d like to remind those people, they contributed to make this world unlivable in the first place.
I want to leave because there is no fair way for me to exist within the system.
Wait you can do that?
if you have to ask, the answer is no.
Well I have a bad knee and sticking my hand in the fish mouth is pretty icky
I’m just saying my knee hurts and fishing is gross
You can, but it is not for everyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(Krakauer_book)#Summary
the person in that book died. hence why i said “if you have to ask, the answer is no”.
- there is not a lot of places in the world where you can do that
- you need quite specific skillset, and person asking such question most definitely does not have it.
(No one ever saw him again because he starved to death in a remote gully 7 months later, in the depth of winter.)
(But on the plus side, he never had to attend another Teams meeting or see another Facebook meme.)
Oh shit, he got 7 whole months without politics and llms??
Ne, he actually tried to live in the forest first, but he had to witness how forest workers constantly cut down trees left and right and that made him sad again and he had to flee further.
Into the sub-forest, like that time I retreated to the sub-basement because my parents were fighting too much.
i know someone who did that… buggered off into the qld bush to brew moonshine and grow ganja.
Every couple of years he’ll hit me up on IRC and send deep cut psytrance bootlegs, fun times.
Yeah, cool, but IRC? I genuinely didn’t know that was a thing anymore.
IRC never died.
there’s even selfhosted clients for it now like The Lounge.
What the hell that sounds like the coolest person ever
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god I love flork
