I've checked my bags and lived off the grid. Way off, like no indoor plumbing or electricity, kitchen was in a hut of lashed saplings covered with a tarp, that kind of thing. I'm back now.
What happens (to me and others I've spoken with) is that those who go off-grid solo or communally end up reinventing...the grid! Well, not the grid
exactly, but the same organizational structure of which grids are a natural extension. We had to reinvent sanitation, too, because digging a hole every time got old after 6 months of unusually rainy weather. (Like at "The Farm," an intentional community in Tennessee that is still in existence, which had cholera outbreaks in the early years of the community, thanks to everybody "doing their own thing" and rejecting the capitalist conspiracy of sewage treatment or something. They sort of re-invented western civilization from almost scratch while trying to do something else.)
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I personnaly wouldnt mind living with one of these tribes
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Just don't plan on bringing a girlfriend/wife! I read an account of a guy that joined up with an Amazonian tribe like you describe, and his wife came with him. It was an ordeal for her that lasted a long time, since she had no way to get the hell back out for awhile. He slacked around all day, occasionally hunting and often drinkning something fermented or taking the local mind-alterants. His wife, being female, was doing a LOT of gathering and was never allowed to hang out with the men or partake of the festivities or rituals (like all women in the tribe). Every night the men would gather in one of the big huts and drink and laugh at loud farts. No kidding, much was said of their affinity for farting and their endless hilarity. The women were sleeping
under the hut during these parties. They weren't even allowed inside while the men were gathering.