Simple Life VS Simpleton
A simple life can be enchanting.
Videos about countryside slow living garner millions of views on Youtube. Take, for instance, Li Ziqi’s country life in Sichuan province, China.
It’s an inviting lifestyle for people from all walks of life.
But it’s because they utilize resources to maximize both efficiency and beauty. From bush-craft to gardening, a lot of research, experimenting, time, and energy investment have gone into building a smooth-running, aesthetically-stunning paradise.
All relying on the most basic and simple of nature’s gifts.
It takes a mind curious about the earth to take advantage of these treasures and a clear vision to sculpt a lifestyle that is also low in cost.
A simple life doesn’t equate with simpleton.
Living slowly in the backwoods of the countryside is best married to a quest to learn about and utilize all natural resources. The patience to experiment and go through trial and error. And most importantly, a vision. An imagination. A can-do attitude.
What happens in the Tropics?
Many people have in their heads that the tropics equates to an abundance of fruit automatically. Images like tropical fruit hat lady also probably helped to popularize that notion.
Some even like to tout:
Abundance of fruits and vegetables that grow wild all around the island year-round in perfect weather. Land, trees, and water! No one will starve!
MISCONCEPTION. MISCONCEPTION. MISCONCEPTION.
They don’t fucking act like it. It’s a lie. It’s another defensive copout for a shithole.
It only operates as a shelved, lazy defense for characters with fragile egos who spend most of their time chasing imported plastic and using it to belittle their own countrymen.
There is no more wild fruit readily available to the average person than in other climates.
The tropics has its’ pick of fruit just as in other climates where people forage for and pick berries, nuts, and other fruits that naturally grow free to anybody passing.
They pick it up right off the ground.
For more, as in any place, you must intentionally till the soil.
You must invest energy, time, grit, and focus. Apply consistent action for a year-round yield.
An act blacks in the tropics typically do not promote or especially engage in to any competent degree on average.
They also like doing things the hard, inefficient way so they don’t have -think- about better processes.
The simple-minded simpleton cannot make most of a simple life.
It degrades to struggle, lack, strife, and plastic-system-money worshipping and slavery.
It’s not simple life. It’s cycle life.
Opting for industrialized country norms, (e.g. gas stove instead of outside kitchen even in countryside), wastage of resources, lack of curiosity, lack of support or inspiration.
It’s not practiced with an emphasis on quality and quantity, doesn’t exist as a way of life or culture, (as opposed to single individual endeavors/commercial purposes. E.g. blue mountain coffee in Jamaica).
A simple life with fertile soil could mean an abundance of food and good living. Black majority tropics lower standards and fall for complacency. Matriarchal black lands like following; they follow the basic consumerism of industrialized nations that can afford it. They try to copy something that cripples them.
As much as they say we have trees as a low-hanging defense, their interest is most certainly not trees. It never comes up as a topic outside that defense. They don’t promote it (as a culture) nearly as much as they use it defensively. It’s majorly overshadowed by an invasive, gossip commonality.
For example, donations to the poor are not seedling fruit plants and help pledges for planting and maintenance, with regular support and information. They don’t systematically donate abundance from their own gardens. They donate imported canned goods and grocery food-stuffs bought from the supermarket. Along with all the snobbery, psychological suppression, toxic, caustic attitudes as undertones, hidden intentions, and the like that goes along with that. Crab barrelers really don’t want to see you elevate.
Simpletons have a can’t do attitude. They settle for less.
A funny, real-life example: Paper sign in verdant village saying “coffee on sale”. Me believing it’s locally-grown, roasted coffee beans (though wondering where the aroma is).
Nope.
Imported from Santo Domingo. The pre-ground, vacuum-packed stuff you can get in the supermarket. What a disappointment and how laughable.
Plastic, money, consumerism, cycle slaves.
Basic cycle repetitions add nothing new; they have no life flowing through them.
It takes a deep appreciation for and commitment to learn and utilize resources to make a simple, slow life the enchanting magic lifestyle of abundance that leaves people in awe.