/lit/ - Literature

>>11411835
Dunno about books, but it depends on what your goals are. If like everyone else here you want to write something that isn't trash at some point then you should live in a city for at least a few years so you can be exposed to different people and novel situations routinely.

>>11411835
The best choice: become a farmer. Don't completely give up on society but also be independent and in touch with nature.

>>11411850
Once I start that though, I feel like I will be unable to stop and I will be caught up in the whole city lifestyle

>>11411879
What because you're afraid you'll never be able to move away or because /pol/ told you that living in a city would turn you into a mentally ill drug-addicted Jew with AIDS?

>>11411835
The Chronicles of Narnia

>>11411835
Bump

>>11411928
>living in a city would turn you into a mentally ill drug-addicted Jew with AIDS

Well they're not really that far from the truth.

Here are two threads which might interest you

>Ted Kaczynski
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/154963372/

>Christopher Thomas Knight
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/122023099/

>>11411986
>t. Flyover

>>11411928
I'm not a poltard, but it is generally true that living in the countryside is healthier, and if you have enough money to just buy some land and you just grow your own food, you have more time for hobbies and relaxation.
>>11412005
Thanks man, I'll look at them later. I'm familiar with Ted but I've never heard of Christopher Thomas Knight.

>>11412057
The book about Knight is called "Stranger in the Woods". It includes a great deal of secondary information about hermits of the past, and those who have sought refuge from society in the wilderness.

Richard Proenneke, who built his own cabin in Alaska and lived there for about 25 years, advised a 21-year-old guy who wrote to him that he should work until he was 50 / could afford it and then do so.

>>11412057
>living in the countryside is healthier
It can be, but the trend is not for people who live there to be healthier than urbanites.

>more time for hobbies and relaxation.
I value that stuff pretty highly myself but those things tend to stagnate in isolation.

Read the essay Society and Solitude by Emerson, he kinda obsessed over this topic
https://www.bartleby.com/90/0701.html

Or even Herzog by Saul Bellow, a lot of it is about living in one's head versus IRL, also it's delightful.

In my experience it comes down to Buddhistic nothingness versus the day to day grind... Find a third way, anon

>>11412005
Seconding this.

To me this question is kind of similar to the choice between the active and the contemplative life, which was quite a common theme in the Italian renaissance. Petrarch agonised about this a lot, trying to decide between a public, career-driven political life on the one hand, and devotion to God on the other. Try reading the Secretum. You'd probably get a lot out of it if you're a christfag but it's not necessary.

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>>11413307
Thanks all