Inform yourself
Of all the positive, active things you can do to lead a simple and ethical life, this is the most important. Inform yourself of what is good for you, the planet and the people who live on it. Find out which companies, governments and media are ethical and trustworthy. Find out low-cost and cruelty-free ways to go do whatever you do. How? The internet, dummy!
Some simple livers refer to themselves as "neo-luddites" eschewing all or much modern technology. To me this is crazy. Much modern technology is destructive to the Earth and to society but some also can be used as valid tools. The internet offers, for the moment at least (and I can't see it changing), a completely new way of interacting and sending and receiving information. It is too big and heterogenous for even big business or governments to control with any success. Sure, it contains a lot of nonsense and half-truth but if you are conscientious enough you will be able to verify everything you learn annd learn more than you will ever hear on tv or newspapers.
As well as educating yourself on ethical issues the internet is a vast repository of knowledge and techniques about simple living and the thoughts and experience of thousands of people who choose this way of life. It provides support and community when treading the sometimes lonely road of voluntary simplicity. Whatever you skimp on, do not cut yourself out of the world wide web. Even if you cannot afford a computer or an internet connection the public libraries thoughout Northern Ireland offer highspeed internet access for free to all their members (membership is also free). See www.ni-libraries.net for details.
To live a ethical life, one must be informed or be at the mercy of whatever multinationals and their lackeys in government feed us. The internet is the single most important tool the modern social activist has - learn to use it.
Some simple livers refer to themselves as "neo-luddites" eschewing all or much modern technology. To me this is crazy. Much modern technology is destructive to the Earth and to society but some also can be used as valid tools. The internet offers, for the moment at least (and I can't see it changing), a completely new way of interacting and sending and receiving information. It is too big and heterogenous for even big business or governments to control with any success. Sure, it contains a lot of nonsense and half-truth but if you are conscientious enough you will be able to verify everything you learn annd learn more than you will ever hear on tv or newspapers.
As well as educating yourself on ethical issues the internet is a vast repository of knowledge and techniques about simple living and the thoughts and experience of thousands of people who choose this way of life. It provides support and community when treading the sometimes lonely road of voluntary simplicity. Whatever you skimp on, do not cut yourself out of the world wide web. Even if you cannot afford a computer or an internet connection the public libraries thoughout Northern Ireland offer highspeed internet access for free to all their members (membership is also free). See www.ni-libraries.net for details.
To live a ethical life, one must be informed or be at the mercy of whatever multinationals and their lackeys in government feed us. The internet is the single most important tool the modern social activist has - learn to use it.
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