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The Book of the Barracks

Things to say

07:30 CET every Monday

It isn't a newsletter it is:

"The Book of the Barracks, serialised in infinite weekly parts. Building a self-sufficient, vegan community; investigating what we can do to shorten the time we spend in collapse and help future humans. With pigs"

Equal parts meditations on gardening, the philosophy of being a human on a dying planet good-natured

Free to sign up, read and enjoy. In your inbox first thing on a Monday morning to digest before the working day gets started (Europe time!)

Links

cover page: https://thebarracks.substack.com/

direct to the sign up: https://thebarracks.substack.com/subscribe

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepirateben/

Sharable images

These three images can be downloaded from here, or pdfs are available for printing from Ben

The Collapse Laboratory

07:30 CET every Monday

Things to say

The Barracks exists for the Collapse Laboratory
If you are going to try to answer impossible questions, then you should come to them from surprising and new angles
Every year, we take a septet of ideas, and use one each day to try to surprise our subconscious with new thought patterns.
This year, we are focussing on The Seven Elements of Art to lead our investigations

The Collapse Laboratory is accessible to all. It isn't an intellectual head scratcher, it isn't bookish or sciency. We are motivated by play, by exchange, and by great food!

Seven days at the Barracks, full of play, exchange, converstation, restaurant quality vegan food, games, walks in the forest and even a little gardening if you want to experience the everyday side of being here

Links

full description: https://www.thebarracks.de/the-collapse-laboratory

tickets: https://thebarracks.substack.com/subscribe

the book of the barracks: https://thebarracks.substack.com/

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepirateben/

ABOUT THE BARRACKS

The Barracks has variously been described as "An Arc against climate collapse", "a living art project" and the "home of the Happy Doomer".

We are here to contemplate the accelerating climate collapse, and exist to pose the following two questions *fully aware that there might not be answers:

What can we do to minimise the amount of time humans spend in collapse?
Is there anything that we can do this side of collapse to help with the rebuilding effort on the other side?

We believe that the best state of mind and body, and the best backdrop to ask these questions is one of Radical Authenticity. On a practical level, that means things like we:

grow all our own food
use only our own water, from the solar powered well and extensive rainwater harvesting
create energy from PV, mass heat storage, heat exchangers, wind and biogas
have an extensive medical herb garden (in progress)
contemplate rebuilding after collapse
practice radical authenticity
rescue piggies
love being alive, in the middle of a beautiful forest, far abstracted from civilisation.
we are working towards self sufficiency in energy. We are self sufficient in almost everything else, including water and waste management.