Needs

In regards to our material conditions, our material needs can actually be very difficult to suss out. Yeah we need food, water, shelter, and connection. But that connection part does complicate things. We're connected to a spectacular and violent process of material change in which our technology is undergoing permanent revolution.

Embedded in society, we ask, what do we need? What tools and appliances? What is economically available? What is available by salvage and personal skill and knowledge? What is acceptable to the average sensibility of our group? 

And further, one can't simply break away and live in peace, engaged in one's own idiosyncratic activity, even if it doesn't dramatically affect greater society. Idiosyncrasy itself is dangerous to a mass industrial society, as it raises the potential of mimicry in that new direction. There are people with clubs and cages who are here to prevent that.