From their own statement:
> Because of the decentralized nature of our work, this has to be spelled out quite clearly: Preparing for impending apocalyptic events should mean collective action and structural reform, not individualism and isolation.
> Because of the decentralized nature of our work, this has to be spelled out quite clearly: Preparing for impending apocalyptic events should mean collective action and structural reform, not individualism and isolation.
Just because they get power from a solar panel and can sail to different places doesn’t mean they are “outside the system”. They are just living an unusual lifestyle with a light footprint. They still have a number of obligations to attend to. In fact, some of these obligations (particularly the ones related to the boat) are life-or-death, and much worse than what the average person deals with. You can’t hire a handyman to come patch your boat up during a storm.
It’s similar to people who live in their RVs full time. When they park somewhere (often for months) they have local neighbors and meet people. They may often meet the same people later in a different location.
Or you could think of them like long haul truckers, who have friends at their end stops but spend a lot of time traveling. Surely those people live in a society? What about salespeople who constantly travel between a few cities in a region? Or UK longboat dwellers? Bedouins?
Nomadic lifestyles, of one kind or another, have been a part of human history since the beginning.
Regardless, I’m not sure what your complaint is. Care to spell it out in a little more detail for me? You seem to think they don’t interact with people, but that’s not the case.