Backshifting
I got acquainted to backshifting movement some ten or more years ago. It started with people choosing a rather more simple way of life, detaching from technology and going analogue. Sometimes, it would be just moving from cities to smaller places as villages or remote houses. Sometimes, it would be going for a minimalist home, giving away all unnecessary objects from your life. Later on, I started thinking about how unnecessary is the centralized way of life, mind and governance.
During that time, me and my family decided to start occasionally visiting my grandparents' house, located in a small Bulgarian village. Back then it was returning to my roots, a process of learning or reinventing things forgotten from childhood. It was good to spend time outdoors in the yard of my grandfather's house, working on the soil and with the soil, learning to cultivate land and seed. There was a well in the yard of the house and it brought to my mind the idea how a family, living in the very same house, could be self-sustainable and not dependent on the centralized water supply system. There are many other ways of getting water, for example, from not centralized source but on your own -- collecting rainfall water, storing and distributing among small community members. The same thing can be applied to all aspects of life so that we get detached from the central overlord and rely on our own efforts, local communities, families and friends.
This is backshifting - realizing that returning back is going forward, choosing smaller, means going bigger and understanding whole picture. Smaller societies, smaller organizations or smaller companies prove to be rather more peaceful, creative, self-sustainable as well as less aggressive and evil. The power of bigger unity corrupts and gives false feeling of impunity. The bad thing is that our society got built either naturally or synthetically, I don't know, over one center of power during time and history, developing all its relations by delegating to this overlord the right to decide for everyone within. The good thing is that decentralization is sneaking in from our past and history or better to say pre-history with societies and individuals helping each other survive in harsh environment; it is sneaking in now through such achievements as peer-to-peer information exchange, cryptography and blockchain. Technology is not bad, it is good, but in bad hands it is bad. If technology is very centralized it becomes evil. If it is decentralized, it belongs to everyone and it is good.
RT @GrainStats: Events in the Corn Market๐ฝ Colorized, 2023 https://t.co/9psg6goFJu
Women-Led Punk Bands - https://t.co/MUdzlILGLY #punk
RT @cer_hedge: #corn #ck3 spot corn-- Almost 50 cent rally since the low at $6.07- Hitting the 62% overnight. Probably just a coincidence.. #fibonacci- he's dead 750 years but still slinging size in the grains. #oatt https://t.co/cZ6Ha8KbVj
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RT @JamesMelville: France ๐ซ๐ท A clip that has not been shown on the vast majority of our mainstream broadcast media. The police get stuck into the protesters in Paris. #FranceProtests #Paris https://t.co/eSJwnZOllk
Disguising solar panels as ancient Roman tiles in Pompeii https://t.co/evq6YOlheu #solarpunk #sustainable #sustainability
How this weekโs #USDA report could impact profits https://t.co/BK6sGUMWF9 #grains #corn #wheat #soybeans #futures #trading #mkt #farm
RT @MidwestMarkets: Texas #corn planting is 52% complete vs. 45% on average.#oatt
RT @WorldAndScience: Fascinating: pebbles on the surface Mars (viewed by the Curiosity rover) (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill) https://t.co/mWGogCh20v
RT @GrainStats: ๐ฝFood Propaganda ๐งต A thread of posters mostly created during the War era in the United States weaponizing agriculture to win the war. Fitting for the times https://t.co/BE4tKvOhDq
RT @MissTrade: US National Debt โ A Different Perspective | https://t.co/hSHOoXl2My https://t.co/GVfg52Sjy3
RT @NatlFarmers: Outside #markets are commodity mixed, US dollar is lower (positive for exports), #metals higher (inflation guide), #energies are lower (petro grains) and equities are slightly higher
RT @SolarpunkNomads: GM friends! The official results from #gitcoin Alpha Round are out ๐๐ We are stocked to confirm that we have been the 5th more supported project in the Climate Solutions round. We feel humbled and grateful for your amazing support ๐๐ฅฒ https://t.co/D8rFZbVSdy
RT @Wizbit_io: "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." - Marcus Aurelius
RT @Reuters: India should keep lid on wheat exports to replenish local stocks - flour millers https://t.co/JvXexXGIpL https://t.co/jAYxGQ0i73
RT @NatlFarmers: Money managers halved their bullish bets across U.S. #grain and oilseed futures and options in the last week of February - shedding a record 265k contracts from their combined net long across #corn, #wheat, #soybeans, and soy products.
Production recovery sees Kazakhstanโs grain exports boom - Grain Central https://t.co/ImhxLpVcHI
RT @Agridome: China Shows Up For US Corn, thx โฆ@ToddHultman1โฉ https://t.co/RUgaMuO7a7
RT @Reuters: The Chicago River was dyed green as part of an annual tradition to mark St. Patrick's Day holiday. The tradition dates back to 1962 https://t.co/yrAA53sFfl
RT @Reuters: ICYMI: Bachevo, a small village in southwest Bulgaria, has a unique way of celebrating the start of Lent https://t.co/5QewysTgmC
RT @SuccessfulFarm: โI think weโve got to develop a new game. A game where farmers can not only raise crops and sell them, and raise livestock and sell them, and get government payments, but they can get other ways to make money from the same landmass.โ https://t.co/VeGuL26AN4
RT @JonErlichman: RIM was founded this day in 1984. Its flagship product, the Blackberry, was created 15 years later in 1999. https://t.co/XEfnlSTR6M
RT @Agricomp: What happens when the big boys shows up in the morning #soybeans ๐๐๐ https://t.co/BvgE3E7YWF
RT @fasc1nate: GPS tracking on six wolf packs shows how much they avoid each other's territory. https://t.co/xUyJULtAlX https://t.co/iQwH4tcLqH
RT @redditSpacePorn: Artistโs concept shows an over-the-shoulder view of Cassini making one of its Grand Finale dives over Saturn. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech https://t.co/w6PPrcbAml
RT @NatlFarmers: #Grains It is the start of a new month, will see if funds want to continue to liquidate or buy the market
RT @Reuters: Water hyacinth, an invasive species, has blanketed the waters of South Africa's Hartbeespoort Dam. Experts say that it is a symptom of pollution. The water hyacinth is threatening to choke off livelihoods and kill tourism in the region https://t.co/H0SETabCWP https://t.co/lVwzxC0wU0
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Backshifting
I got acquainted to backshifting movement some ten or more years ago. It started with people choosing a rather more simple way of life, detaching from technology and going analogue. Sometimes, it would be just moving from cities to smaller places as villages or remote houses. Sometimes, it would be going for a minimalist home, giving away all unnecessary objects from your life. Later on, I started thinking about how unnecessary is the centralized way of life, mind and governance.
During that time, me and my family decided to start occasionally visiting my grandparents' house, located in a small Bulgarian village. Back then it was returning to my roots, a process of learning or reinventing things forgotten from childhood. It was good to spend time outdoors in the yard of my grandfather's house, working on the soil and with the soil, learning to cultivate land and seed. There was a well in the yard of the house and it brought to my mind the idea how a family, living in the very same house, could be self-sustainable and not dependent on the centralized water supply system. There are many other ways of getting water, for example, from not centralized source but on your own -- collecting rainfall water, storing and distributing among small community members. The same thing can be applied to all aspects of life so that we get detached from the central overlord and rely on our own efforts, local communities, families and friends.
This is backshifting - realizing that returning back is going forward, choosing smaller, means going bigger and understanding whole picture. Smaller societies, smaller organizations or smaller companies prove to be rather more peaceful, creative, self-sustainable as well as less aggressive and evil. The power of bigger unity corrupts and gives false feeling of impunity. The bad thing is that our society got built either naturally or synthetically, I don't know, over one center of power during time and history, developing all its relations by delegating to this overlord the right to decide for everyone within. The good thing is that decentralization is sneaking in from our past and history or better to say pre-history with societies and individuals helping each other survive in harsh environment; it is sneaking in now through such achievements as peer-to-peer information exchange, cryptography and blockchain. Technology is not bad, it is good, but in bad hands it is bad. If technology is very centralized it becomes evil. If it is decentralized, it belongs to everyone and it is good.
RT @GrainStats: Events in the Corn Market๐ฝ Colorized, 2023 https://t.co/9psg6goFJu
Women-Led Punk Bands - https://t.co/MUdzlILGLY #punk
RT @cer_hedge: #corn #ck3 spot corn-- Almost 50 cent rally since the low at $6.07- Hitting the 62% overnight. Probably just a coincidence.. #fibonacci- he's dead 750 years but still slinging size in the grains. #oatt https://t.co/cZ6Ha8KbVj
I just posted "HP iPAQ 514 Voice Messenger Windows Mobile 6" on Reddit https://t.co/fLqwSxSgPm
RT @JamesMelville: France ๐ซ๐ท A clip that has not been shown on the vast majority of our mainstream broadcast media. The police get stuck into the protesters in Paris. #FranceProtests #Paris https://t.co/eSJwnZOllk
Disguising solar panels as ancient Roman tiles in Pompeii https://t.co/evq6YOlheu #solarpunk #sustainable #sustainability
How this weekโs #USDA report could impact profits https://t.co/BK6sGUMWF9 #grains #corn #wheat #soybeans #futures #trading #mkt #farm
RT @MidwestMarkets: Texas #corn planting is 52% complete vs. 45% on average.#oatt
RT @WorldAndScience: Fascinating: pebbles on the surface Mars (viewed by the Curiosity rover) (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill) https://t.co/mWGogCh20v
RT @GrainStats: ๐ฝFood Propaganda ๐งต A thread of posters mostly created during the War era in the United States weaponizing agriculture to win the war. Fitting for the times https://t.co/BE4tKvOhDq
RT @MissTrade: US National Debt โ A Different Perspective | https://t.co/hSHOoXl2My https://t.co/GVfg52Sjy3
RT @NatlFarmers: Outside #markets are commodity mixed, US dollar is lower (positive for exports), #metals higher (inflation guide), #energies are lower (petro grains) and equities are slightly higher
RT @SolarpunkNomads: GM friends! The official results from #gitcoin Alpha Round are out ๐๐ We are stocked to confirm that we have been the 5th more supported project in the Climate Solutions round. We feel humbled and grateful for your amazing support ๐๐ฅฒ https://t.co/D8rFZbVSdy
RT @Wizbit_io: "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." - Marcus Aurelius
RT @Reuters: India should keep lid on wheat exports to replenish local stocks - flour millers https://t.co/JvXexXGIpL https://t.co/jAYxGQ0i73
RT @NatlFarmers: Money managers halved their bullish bets across U.S. #grain and oilseed futures and options in the last week of February - shedding a record 265k contracts from their combined net long across #corn, #wheat, #soybeans, and soy products.
Production recovery sees Kazakhstanโs grain exports boom - Grain Central https://t.co/ImhxLpVcHI
RT @Agridome: China Shows Up For US Corn, thx โฆ@ToddHultman1โฉ https://t.co/RUgaMuO7a7
RT @Reuters: The Chicago River was dyed green as part of an annual tradition to mark St. Patrick's Day holiday. The tradition dates back to 1962 https://t.co/yrAA53sFfl
RT @Reuters: ICYMI: Bachevo, a small village in southwest Bulgaria, has a unique way of celebrating the start of Lent https://t.co/5QewysTgmC
RT @SuccessfulFarm: โI think weโve got to develop a new game. A game where farmers can not only raise crops and sell them, and raise livestock and sell them, and get government payments, but they can get other ways to make money from the same landmass.โ https://t.co/VeGuL26AN4
RT @JonErlichman: RIM was founded this day in 1984. Its flagship product, the Blackberry, was created 15 years later in 1999. https://t.co/XEfnlSTR6M
RT @Agricomp: What happens when the big boys shows up in the morning #soybeans ๐๐๐ https://t.co/BvgE3E7YWF
RT @fasc1nate: GPS tracking on six wolf packs shows how much they avoid each other's territory. https://t.co/xUyJULtAlX https://t.co/iQwH4tcLqH
RT @redditSpacePorn: Artistโs concept shows an over-the-shoulder view of Cassini making one of its Grand Finale dives over Saturn. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech https://t.co/w6PPrcbAml
RT @NatlFarmers: #Grains It is the start of a new month, will see if funds want to continue to liquidate or buy the market
RT @Reuters: Water hyacinth, an invasive species, has blanketed the waters of South Africa's Hartbeespoort Dam. Experts say that it is a symptom of pollution. The water hyacinth is threatening to choke off livelihoods and kill tourism in the region https://t.co/H0SETabCWP https://t.co/lVwzxC0wU0
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