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>>21623156
They are artificial if you do hunting for game, and not for nourishment. Or gardening for ornamentation and not for harvesting. On and on.
I am not saying that these things are useless. They are actually very good and benefitial for you. It is visible that TK differs kinds of surrogate activities, obviously spending some time in nature is much more psychologically uplifting than spending a time in front of a screen as we are doing right now. Moreover, these may not be surrogate activities if you are practicing in order to sever yourself from the system.

I'll give a dumb example since he is a hack, but when Varg Vikernes is doing his permaculture in rural France, he is not doing it as a surrogate activity, but rather he seeks to obtain independence from the system and grow his own food. Now, we know very well that Vargette is an individual that does his groceries, live out of welfare, selling records and RPG books, but still, he is trying to get somewhere there: to build sustainable living for his children and the generations to come. This, in my view, is certainly a quest for autonomy and therefore part of the power process.
It would be a surrogate activity if he worked 8 hours a day and lived in the city and only had a plot of land where he would play viking in the weekends, but since he is actually pursuing a living out of it, we can safely say it's not surrogacy.