Can you live without Internet?

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It's pretty much a regression. People can't seem to do shit anymore without the internet. It's now a common occurrence to see people failing to find their way because they can't get proper GPS coverage, and neither asking their way to someone nearby, or checking the city map on right in front of them.
I'm myself keeping out of the internet more and more, trying to revert to an older rhythm of life, all the while living in a big city. It's hard, but doable. Two of the things you end up lacking the most are communication and knowledge.

People need to communicate because they live far away from each other, and because they have no actual organization, they just live by the day and shape their social lives around their imperatives. Gone are the times when people would meet every set day at the pub, see each other every weekend, meet every summer in the same place, or have any kind of cycle they follow: because they can communicate freely, people live more impromptu lives. Giving up on communication means having to live a better organized life, with events planned long in advance, and others set to repeat every week or month, all without the ability of ever being late, because you cannot warn the person waiting for you.

As for knowledge, well most people these days are complete idiots who cannot do anything without the internet. They don't really know anything. This is quite noticeable to me when I travel abroad, in remote countries without much infrastructure, and some people are completely lost when there's neither wifi nor cell coverage: they can't cook for shit, change a flat tire, make any sort of useful knot, read a map, express themselves in any other language… they are way smarter than average with the internet, but quite clueless without.

But it's solveable, to a limited extent.
I did manage to have all my friends meet at a bar every two weeks, they're free to come or not, but they're at least certain to meet people there. They actually like it a lot, knowing they can just come, without planning, without calling anyone. But it's hard for anything else, because while I mostly stay away from communications, they don't, and if they can't call me, they slowly forget about me. In the first world, opting out of communication equals opting out of social life, so it all depends on people around you, on whether they're willing to ditch communications along with you or not. Places where people live this kind of life fortunately do exist, I actually spend some 6 months recently on a small island off the coast of Thailand: never once have I needed the internet in 6 fucking months. But in a big city, it's quite hard to do so.

As for knowledge, well, books. Lots of books. The hard part is reading them all and learning what they contain: there's no search function, which is a key to really tap into their power, but then you don't need it once you read it and know what it contains, and made notes about it and bookmarks for the nice stuff. But it takes time, it's hard to gather so many books, quality printed encyclopedias have almost disappeared and worth a small fortune, and you quickly end up using an ereader. But again, doable.

Then there are news. Well, TV and radio still exist, if you're willing to trust them. And then, do you really need to know 24/7 what's happening all over the planet? Do you care? For things that directly concern you, TV and radio will generally be more than enough, and once you stop caring about all that stuff, it certainly removes quite a burden from your mind. I don't think we're meant to absorb that much information, at least not without putting some distance with it. As you can see, I haven't stopped roaming around here, because internet discussion is something I haven't found any replacement for, and I don't quite trust TV and radio actually, but I still keep some distance.

So my actual use comes down to this: I use it for what it's worth, for things I can find no physical replacement. As for the rest, I remain independant from it.

Also what is this faggy music OP.

No.
4 years ago.

It's odd, actually. I'm more or less tech dependant, I feel cut off without internet access, even worse if I've no access to my PC. But after I've come to the conclusion that I can't get on, even if I try, there's a calm that sets in.

I'll go for a walk, get a lot of things done I otherwise wouldn't, I'll meet up with people I normally just talk to online.

It's nice.

No, but Kek is channeling his divine will through me so it's not like a have a choice.

Lain is so cute. I would do things to her.

Yeah. I'd be better off without it. With an active (sex) drive and no porn I know I can do anything I set my mind to.

But it's too tempting. It's such an instantly gratifying life. Coming home from work and wanting to do things that take more effort isn't possible, methinks. Without net, instant gratification dies and with it laziness. I would strive to do better, physically, mentally, emotionally, and leadership wise.

But I won't.

Because I'll always have Holla Forums to check and /wx/ to shame myself to. "Stronger every day"… Maybe one day I'll get off my ass, perhaps if these riots start popping up I'll feel enough fear to move my fingers.

Went a week without the Internet when I went to NY for a family wedding.

It's not hard.

Its not impossible

Just no more game mods

and Id have to fucking go to the library to get books to read

It would mean getting prole feed fro media overlords. No true red pilled user could go cold turkey. You'd always have a sense of being lied to. The desire for the truth will be overwhelming.

We don't NEED it, we just really want it. Not just for Holla Forums and truth seeking either. Plenty of fun to be had online. Maybe if/when we finally win and secure our nations' futures again, then we can maybe get rid of it and go back to the good old days of interacting with people face to face.

No.
I'd go outside but it is either so polluted you can't see the next house, or so rainy the street is knee-deep in water.
t. chink

Being alone on the sinking boat with all the bluepills would be pretty hard without Holla Forums. My country is the most pozzed of Europe, and its people are lost.

Are you the main lainchan poster or are there others on here? I have been seeing them more and more over the last two months

What a stupid question.

No. Internet should be banned.

I'm sorry, Swede. Your country used to be beautiful.

Yes. I would prefer to. But that can only happen when the last mud is shot and Liberals are totally suppressed.

France. We experienced what Germany and Sweden are getting a long time ago.

Calais ?

Yes, of course. Obviously there will be a period early on where I will be missing the instant gratification I derive from the internet, but that will subside relatively quickly.

No, the entire country. They tell you that the mainland is still redpilled, but I can guarantee you that even the old timers from the countryside believe that races are equal. At least, they admit that races exist, unlike most townfolks.
If I had to find a culprit, it would be TV; we were hit really hard by it.

In your real life ?

No, I cannot.

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Yes, I have grandparents in Normandy and Yonne. At least there are no niggers nor kebabs to see; but still bluepilled. m8, I read like five holocaust books during french classes and worked on poor mexican illegal immigrants in spanish ones for years. Commong core is already enacted here.

It would be very easy for me to disconnect from the internet for a long period, but it would be hard to be separated from my computer. That said, I have a lot of useful material archived.

About 4 days out of each week. I have rarely owned a tv and have regressed to the simplest type of tracphone. Pretty sure I can get by again without the internet. What I would miss most is being able to torrent books instead of traveling 90 miles to the nearest bookstores.

The internet is necessary for our current shitty economy to function, but if we lost it today, my only regret would be the loss of knowledge and news.

It's interesting that most revolutions were planned out in bars. Not sure about the commies, though.

Good. These people need to fail.

This is the one depressing thing I've found out.

Like everything, the Internet is a tool which can be used for good or for evil. I for one, try to spend little time on it and would rather do something outside esp in the wilderness. It just makes sense that we should only use this stuff for a critical need, not as a crutch lest we become zombies and idiots who can't/won't/don't dig deep and do heavy research into important things.

Yes, you do, how else can you make informed decisions about the markets or about hunting down/collecting intelligence, on terrorists? The rest of it was spot on, I would add to your statement, that other technologies such as radio transmissions for communicative purposes are also necessary as a means for contact, in case other modes fail in some manner. This way, vital communication is not broken.

People would be a lot less social/political if the internet disappeared. Though eventually we would get used to it and go back to actually talking to people in person.

I'd have to actually BUY my video games and rpg books.
I guess there'd be no more weebtoons either.
All in all probably a net gain.

That was back when people were really only affected by things within traveling distance. What happened in China wouldn't affect you until six months later. Now our traveling speed and distance has increased so dramatically, and the globe is so interconnected, that what happened in China yesterday can affect you today. If you're relying on your tavern buddies who don't fly to China regularly, and the mass media is hush hushing about it, you won't hear the news for a long time, if at all, such that by the time you hear the news its relevance has already passed.

Likewise if some blogger in China has the real scoop, with video evidence, about what really happened, and it conflicts with the official narrative, you will never see the proof if you hear about the theory at all.

Yes.

Both, each in his own way.

When I visited my Great-uncle Hans.

My internet went "out". I still list an IP assignment by my ISP and my modem says it's connected but no sites load. I'm on my phone data now. Is this a FF?

Does packet radio count as internet?

No, and honestly surprised no one else mentioned radio yet.

Sage because thread is shit, though your post is not.

went 6 months without it last year

when I was done I thought "wow I can't wait to get back to all the great things on the internet!" but was immediately disappointed as I forgot the internet is full of repulsive shit that literally hurts my eyes