Learn to Garden.
No seriously.
AI represents the pinnacle of consumerism.
The culmination of a system where Humans produce nothing for their own consumption.
Fractured communities of isolated and desperate consumer-workers who cannot survive outside the system they were born into.
To undermine this system requires not just attacking it’s foundation, but digging beneath to the fundament, usurping it through a grass roots refusal to participate.
Beneath the foundations of consumerism, capitalism, and every society we can remember is agriculture.
Stop participating in the high price of groceries.
Start producing your own food, feeding, and growing your community.
You don’t have to make everything from scratch to reject the Door Dash Fast Food Overnight Delivery system that exists entirely to extract profit from the human need to eat.
Use capitalism to your advantage. Buy hydroponics and lights to grow indoors year round. Buy hoop houses to extend outdoor seasons. Buy seeds. Grow seedlings and give them away.
Learn to harvest seeds from the plants you grow.
Cook and preserve food. Fill a pantry/freezer and EAT what’s in it!
Work together with your friends/neighbours to support local farmers and grocers.
Learn about plant Hardiness and what crops will remain/become viable in your region.
Then take this concept and apply it to every other aspect of human existence that’s been coopted to fund a system that ultimately results in AI slop.
There are communities out there you can trust, that will both support you and find you very useful, you’ve just got to find them, which isn’t necessarily easy. Like I said, the whole social system has been sabotaged and what we have access to is designed to keep people divided and disconnected from each other. There are a lot of obstacles. Physical proximity is definitely very helpful as a way of getting around many of those obstacles and systems, but it’s not explicitly required. If you can find a community that would fit you and that you need, they may not be close to you. But if you make it a priority, you find a way to either bring yourself to the community or bring some of that community to yourself, whichever turns out to be the more practical option. Or do neither because physical proximity is still not strictly required, it just makes things a lot easier. If it’s easier to stay where you are instead of making it easier to connect with some beneficial form of community then you can do that too (but it’s probably not actually easier, we just become convinced we are stuck when we fail to see any way out).