Used to be that living off the grid meant living off the power grid … Stickin’ it to the man by avoiding taxes and power bills, living off the land and sucking off of the government’s energy instead of paying for your own. Today, living off the grid essentially means living without the Internet or a smartphone. I’m not saying that would be easy, but it sure does make us all sound like a bunch of pussies. So if the grid is now synonymous with the Internet, then living on the grid is kind of pathetic, codependent and mindless and living off the grid would be a reactionary course correction, unrealistic and probably unsafe. So I’ve resolved to live next to the grid. Maybe you’ll try living there with me, or maybe you’ll just flip me the bird from your pod on the grid and say that I don’t get it.
Let’s Be “Next To” The Grid
