sapphi_snake said:
2. Ben can't have his own counter-culture movement, if he's the only person that's part of it. Culture refers to civilizations/societies, and you can't have a society that only has 1 member. You're also misunderstanding what culture is. Sharing the same culture as other people doesn't mean 'having the same opinions as other people'. If that were true than people indoctrinated in a certain culture would all be exactly the same, which is obviously not true. Do you have the same opinions as your parents? Obviously not, but you do share the same culture as they do (language, institutions, basic practices, certain views of the world etc.). Culture refers to fundemental things that build a social universe, not mere 'opinions'. Funny how in your island examples you always have more than 1 person. 3. Survivalists are people who prepare for potential apocalyptic scenarios. They're the crazy people who build fallout shelters in their backyards. This guy is not a survivalist (we have no information regarding that, plus it's obvious that an apocalypse did not take place 5 years ago). Isolationism is a policy a country adopts when it decides to isolate itself from the affairs of other nations (no more alliances, economical commitments, international agreements etc.). It does not refer to individual people, and has nothign to do with this topic.
I'd also like to know why you think this guy should've been allowed to break a countries laws (take his son out of school, break several laws regardign child safety etc.), because he decided to become a hermit. |
2) A counter culture is a culture that rejects the main culture of society. IE The majority of their beliefs are different from the main cultures.
3) No, not all survivalists prepare for apocolyptic scenaios, nor due all isolationists have to do with the affairs of other nations.
Your relying too far on what you can read on wikipedia because you lack any real world expierence.
There are plenty of people who forgoe technology and "move back to the woods..." and in general, Isolation was often seen as a good thing culturally, even in the west before we got so modernized, look at monks and shit.
Aside from which
A) You have no proof he did break any of those laws.
B) Because he isolated himself. "If you don't like this culture you can move" essentially a xenophobic rightwing statement as you can get... along the lines of "If you don't like America you can move to russia." really only applies if the country is willing to pay for your ticket and if there is free kand available.
Not everyone can afford to just move to another country, and there really aren't ANY countries that follow an isolationist live by yourself belief... nor is there any unclaimed land left on earth. Outside of like, a couple of desert pieces of land which are pretty unhelpful at this point. Hell even the artic is being heavily claimed by russia right now.
Meaning that by specifically going to unused parts of land that nobody noticed for, for like 5 years, suggests he did about as well as he could have to avoid breaking any laws.