Cometbus #48. (Zine Thing).

This Cometbus is a little different from the prior stuff. Aaron's writing is on point, but this time he takes an investigative look into the "Back to the Land" folks. The "Back to the Land" movement grew in the '60s and '70s (and has come and gone for centuries, a more recent example might be Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walden). and advocated a simple, self-sufficient life (often based on notions of what life was like in an earlier time, although it seems to me a romanticized idea). You grow your own food, hunt your own prey, build your own house, don't pay taxes, and sometimes it is associated with communal arrangement. He interviews people who grew up with parents who were back-to-the-landers, actual older back-to-the-landers, and people who want to become the next generation. He does-a-good job of drawing out motivation, which is interesting to see. In the end he shows his cards by acknowledging that the people's perceptions may be a little off. Some of these people seem overly hostile and anti-social-which is obvious given their stated intents, but it appears to border on paranoia, and is fixated on the government and progress (after all, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was one). Send $2.50 to PO Box 4279, Berkeley, CA 94704.