Interview with Mark Boyle, who Lives in a Self-Built Cabin without Technology
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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Mark Boyle lives from the Land, off-the-grid in his Self-built Cabin, all without any modern technology. He tries to be completely self-sufficient: foraging, hunting, fishing & growing his own food. Mark is also known as the moneyless man, as in 2008 he started living without money for 3 years. Let's have a look at how he lives from the land in his cabin and why he choose for this very special lifestyle. This is the complete Interview.
I moved onboard my sailboat, my yearly cost of living is down to $3500, I can't be bothered having a job. All I do is my hobbies, sailing, fishing, online gaming, watching old movies and ride my CT 125 seeing stuff.
you on government support?
Not good. Unless you can't, you(and me) have a moral obligation to contribute, by our efforts, to society.
@@Kitiwake Good/bad = blanket statement.
Only if your wellbeing is prioritised and taken care of first. For some, this may not happen/may not happen to the level they can then contribute outwards of themselves.
@@Kitiwake Your "society" let veterans,old men,fathers with children to sleep in the forest while sending funds to Ukraine and feminist governamental programs..
Most intelligent information I've heard in years. I just read Mr. Boyles's book The Way Home and loved it. I'm so glad he wrote it and allowed himself to be videoed in this. My thinking has been on its way here for a while, this helped me to shake out the remaining wrinkles.
Jan Marie are you living this way. Interested how challenging it was...?
This Human has figured out the meaning of life and living!
I think life has no meaning. You give it meaning. Whatever that might be. There´s no right or wrong answer to that I think. But for some people who wants to live a less stressful life and leave a smaller fotoprint on earth, I think his way of living can be something to try.
When total control over humanity begins, chipping, then this will help to survive outside the system.
@@ElisainNaturewhy doesn’t he go naked then. Since his clothes were made with modern tech
@@DetenkleFriluftslivit’s a delusion. I will never understand environmental activists. Like for some example just stop oil protesters were running down the streets saying stop oil deals but yet everything they have on their bodies is made from oil 😂the hypocrisy is unreal. I’m an environmentalist but this is a terrible way to go about it. We have to allow science and tech to merge. A primitive lifestyle is not eco friendly. It’s buying into the pristine myth that nature was perfect before the Industrial Revolution. Humans have always been destroying the planet. We destroyed this planet thousands and thousands of years before the industrial age came about
This lovely soul is a prime example of what it means to live consciously ...
"Unless we readdress our relationship with technology, we're gone" - Mark Boyle
Technology is a blessing and a curse at the same time. But his video is a fantasy
I wish there were more interviews with him to listen to. This one is great
Ben fogle did an hour long program with Mark, it should be available somewhere, very interesting.
Ben fogle did an hour long program with Mark, it should be available somewhere, very interesting.
@@777MrJoe Thank you!
A life to remember, whilst all our days run into each other and next thing you know you're old and worn out and retired with death knocking on the window pointing to an hourglass with the sand running out, thinking about it its depressing isn't it?.
Except life is eternal. Which might beeven more frightening when you think about itisn't it?
Our technological advances are very very scary! And as far as I’m concerned going in a negative direction... this man is lucky because he’s had an awakening! 🙏🏻more and more people are waking up ✌🏻🇨🇦 ps great interview because you let his talk instead of interrupting like most interviewers do!
The irony is that I totally agree with him...but am watching him on RUclips 😔 I really enjoyed the interview though and the opportunity you gave him to speak
Wonderful to hear Mark again! He really is a beautiful man in every way!
Internet: the great vortex of time suckage!
You feel better without technology but its very difficult to live without it today in todays world. I think it has negative effects on health. Looks so relaxing his home. And he speaks very clearly n calmer than most people. I suppose rushed world makes people hyper wen they talk.
I have an adopted son who came from small village, he speaks slowly and so calm, makes everyone loves to talk to him.
It’s a fallacy. If really he wanted to live without any technology. He would be butt naked and nomadic. This is a luxurious archaic life. He has clothes made from modern technology.
This video just showed up on my feed based on RUclips's algorithm, and I am grateful that it did. I am so inspired by Mark's story that I am going to buy his book.
I have read four of his books (which is possibly all of them?) and they are all worth your time.
After a quick google search, he has six so far!
Well done! Thank you for doing the needed efforts to find Mark Boyle in his hidden cabin somewhere in Ireland and to arrange this interview.
That’s the most informative and interesting discussion I’ve ever eavesdropped on.
Good interview. Thank you. So much 'green' stuff is gimmicky and hyper, lovely to see an in depth calm interview that acknowledged that there are no fast big bang solutions. We need to facilitate learning and evolving our human existence to a more earth centric future, which could be very different in different bio regions. Food for thought. Nice one.
Oh The Grapes of Wrath - my most favourite book of all time! John Steinbeck's story of the Dust bowl migration during the great depression is VERY relevant today! Particularly the way it ends. Love and compassion for our fellow humans (and all other life forms) is what most matters as crises unfold.....
Wonderful interview, I very much enjoyed hearing about Mark's way of living and perspective on life. Cheers, Ginny 👍🙂
Sell the TV, computer, laptop, tablet.... Get a basic mobile phone/land line and see what happens. One step at a time.
I'm gonna start living off the grid, I'm just 16 I guess I'll just not use my phone, tv etc all those benefits teenagers have nowadays, Yeah definitely I feel it'll change my life
Important to note that depending where you live it may be virtually impossible to live off grid due to planning laws and so on. If it were as simple as buying a piece of land and raising a house then I expect more people would be doing it.
Living off grid requires less permits, you don't need electrical and plumbing/septic sign off :)
100% agree ed and the rules are only get stricter here in the uk
Virtually impossible in America rules and regulations are very strict mostly with building but if you have kids not possible, but I am sure that there are ways around it just have to want it bad enough, I was homeless for 8 months best and most memorable time of my life I won't lie at first I was very depressed, but when you look around take a breath it's only gets better from there, would have been better mostly because I had a accident, cut the tendon and two arteries in my middle finger to the bone 8 stiches can bring you down pretty good lol for real though knife safety is very important even more so with a new knife or gear in general lessons learned the hard way.
I so enjoyed this book, but yes, pretty much impossible in California. Permits for everything. The expensive cost of land. My in-laws had an off-grid cabin but they built it in the early 70s.
THATS WHY THERES A NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE A HAPPIER HEALTHIER AND MEANINGFUL LIFE
BEFORE THE LAWS ARE MADE WE NEED TO GO AND LIVE LIKE THIS IN HARMONY AND PEACE AND THEN THERE WONT BE CRIMES AND STUFF WE WOULD NEED NO GOVERNANCE , MONEY ETC.
Reading the Way Home now and read lots of nature writers from the UK. All is points are so spot on (and I’m a business professor). His journey is certainly not for most people but I really respect what he has done to align his values with his lifestyle. It’s a very hard way to live but it is so low impact. We all may need to live this way one day.
Can you please point me to these other UK nature writers? Thank you
@@jitkakahounova9547 For UK: Classic: Nan Shepard (The Living Mountain) and Baker (The Peregrine), Gilbert White (But very hard to read…), Chris Packham (Fingers in the Sparkle Jar) and Ring of Bright Water. Contemporary: Anything by Robert MacFarlane, Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake), The Book of Trespass, Diary of a young naturalist (McAnulty), Salt Path. US classics include Thoreau, Muir, and Edward Abbey. There is a ton of naturalist based Fiction (sci-Fi, utopian, dystopian, etc.). The Guardian has a book shop with lots of these titles, should be searchable under Nature.
@@melliepullman2219 thank you so much for taking the time to answer! I'll check them out. Thoreau I read and I have Enchanted life already. So much to read hahaha. Thanks again and greetings from the Czech Republic
@@jitkakahounova9547 I’m sorry that it’s so English language centric. I would love to discover nature writers from other languages. I forgot a great book: Waterlogged by Roger Deacon.
his veggie patch is the envy of every wanna be "off grider". No pet or partner or neighbours.... how does he fight loneliness?.... he has this paradise but no soul to share it with.
really good video, hes and amazing guy and i wish everyone could see how the world is changing and how we need to make a change.
Facts
Corona helping that
@@HomemakerDaze good that you see how to respond instead of crying and protesting..
this is the life I want
A life of delusion?
WOW! I'm so inspired by this video! Well done! Thank you for sharing this important but wonderful story of this gentleman's simplistic and humble way of living. I'd love to have the courage to step out in this way and do something like this myself. One day I will have, but in the meantime, I love and appreciate your work! Keep posting!!!
Mark, huge fan, love your work and your logic. Good to see a new video, Dean,Wexford.
But when he needs National health or looking after he will turn to the things I pay for.
It is difficult
Ему с меньшей вероятности понадобится государственное здравоохранение или уход, чем тебе живущему за счёт вредной химии в продуктах питания и стресса, без которого ты не можешь зарабатывать деньги для своего существования в рамках денежной системы. Эта система губит людей. Надеюсь в скором будущем мы не уничтожим друг друга из-за денег и придем к той стадии развития человечества, когда они нам не понадобятся. В этом мире все войны, все конфликты, все недопонимания, все преступления из-за денег. Деньги это зло. Даже в Библии людей учат, что деньги от лукавого, что их любить нельзя и это является грехом.
Gorgeous cabin..beautiful way to live...
Nothing at all like his Indonesian washing story.
But in Chicago, our local laundrette, had an adjoining room which had board games and served coffee and beer.
'Really liked it.
Sometimes, more often than not these days, people are not well enough to take on this kind of lifestyle even though they would love to.
Thank you, Mark, I wish the same thing.
It's an interesting proposition that the flask had the biggest impact on rural life in Ireland. It's clearly a subjective debate but I always think that spectacles have been ignored as a pivotal invention. Simple lenses that allow a human to see more clearly and work normally. To be honest I can't see people not partying, especially in Ireland because they brought a thermos flask into work.
Awesome, Mark is inspiring.
How did u build the house without money on a land ?
He must have given it up after he built it
He barters etc
He originally planned to live one year without money, but ended up extending it to 3 years, during which time he wrote his book The Moneyless Man. By the end of the 3 years he had an idea of what he wanted to do and when he returned home his publisher had the proceeds from the book for him. He bought a farmhouse and some land with the proceeds, and set about starting a free hostel and community. Built the off grid cabin he is in in this video. It's all explained in his books which are very enjoyable to read.
5:24 - Washing machines are still bad for society and the planet. They’re made half from plastic (oil), from parts shipped all around the word on chugging shipping vessels before being assembled, then shipped around the word for sale, then they use loads of energy from an unsustainable (currently, in most countries) grid, then they’re either “recycled” (plastic can only be recycled about five times max, and most of the time not at all, depending on the plastic), then realistically they’re just thrown on a heap in a developing country.
I’m wondering, does he have to pay property tax? Like how can you really go about not having any money.
Not sure. He makes money from his books, and bought the land, so would be able to afford charges the State imposed. I don’t think he is a militant anarchist/libertarian, but Freeman on the land movement advocate ways to avoid paying different taxes. I get the impression he is a fair bit more flexible than when he did his first stint in a caravan with no money, but clearly has still taken his ideals a long way, once he bought the land, a lot of opportunities would have opened up. In terms of renouncing modern technology, he has gone further, but that kind of collapses once he hands over his written manuscript to publishers, and when checking his bank balance topped up with royalties and so on.
The conversation is interesting and worthwhile.
Inspiring talk from a wise man, although I don't agree with the apocalypse now viewpoint, I'm more in the apocalypse never book by Michael Schellenberger
Love this. We need more people like him
Great interview .Thanks for sharing !!
2022, and with the current dystopian outlook, this guy was onto something
10:58 "Live a life for positive reasons." I can't agree more!
Thank you for this wonderful interview !
Strong accent and quite difficult (for a French speaker). But I've learnt many things from it.
You should hear Kerry accent. You wouldn't understand a word. I know I can't.
Technology has made the simple more complicated.
I've always thought the 80s was the decade that had a comfortable balance of technology. We had everything we needed as humans. Since then it's gone into overdrive and far too demanding
@@libbad7419it’s common for people to think like this. Every group would thought the same. Romans would have, The Greeks would have, Egyptians and so on.
Just about to read one of his books. He lives over the road!
If you meet him please tell him about a great new book that's come out called The Wild Food Plants of Ireland, by Tom Curtis and Paul Whelan. I have it and it's very helpful in finding where different edible plants are in the country, classification and their culinary uses. I think Mark would find it useful in his efforts to forage wild food.
His books are excellent, and I re-read them every couple of years.
Thank you for this inspiring talk. I’m not ready to live like that yet but certainly it’s given me the push to commit to finally giving up social media and other distractions to focus on better things
The unabomber was right folks.
I thoroughly enjoyed this documentary, well done lad 👏👏👏
I wish there were subtitles, English is not my first language and I find it a bit difficult to understand him. I absolutely loved his books though :)
After reading the book 'The Way Home', I think about it regularly and miss reading it. Wish i lived there. X
Ohh, the peace. Thank you. Wonderful.
Except for inhaling the fire smoke.
And having the Neighbors do the same as a result.
✌🏼
It is cool that in the discussion that something drastic needs to happen, to make changes towards being more human, then the global COVID12 pandemic lockdown soon occured.
The entire cabin and his clothes are all technology. I think he means electronics.
Stove, wine, dishes ..
Well said Mark, it’s spot on.
Top man 🍷🍷🍷 i live on a boat so i understand his points......but i have a car .....wish i cud get rid !
Ironically, this interview is presented via the internet...;) Enjoyable video Julius!
True that!
@@juliussilvan That's a black and white approach for . Life itself - by design - is full of contradictions , so it's kind of natural to use the advantages of internet to spread ideas. My question to you is: Why am I not able to finish the downloading of this video? It doesn't get transported for some reason like any other downloaded video from RUclips would ...
@@juliussilvan roundhouse?
I love you philosophy Mark!!! 😀
How do we make it possible for more people to live this way? There’s no way I could buy land to do this. I’ve lived in small communities but they didn’t share my ethics of compassion for all living beings. Maybe Mark will start a commune.
Check out Jonestown (Guyana), that's a perfect example of commune.
He looks very healthy
I found it very interesting that he calls it an addiction. He is 100% spot on ! from watching Smoothe G and other bushcraft channels I have been seeing it so much in my kids . Though they have limited time on screens it shows that comfort is an extreme addiction that we always persue the easy fix or simple builds on projects.
Its the time construct and that we never have enough that demands technology just to keep up great insights gentleman great conversation to promote deeper thought and the drive to change.
Cheers lads
Amazing and so inspirering video. What a wise man. Ive seen it a couple of times now and I learn Something New everytime. I defently Want to buy his book. 🙏🙌❤
I read it from the library
I love this man fair play to him im somewhat the same now been 10 months living like this next i need is a cabin like his and ill be set
He has figured it out! 👍
Living in New York and your life seems consummed by cellphones and internet yet living in modern Ireland today with all the cellphones you don't feel so addicted to it because you live life and yes you use the cellphone but much less. Hard to explain but you kinda live a more fullfilling life. You have really good relationships that make life so much richer. Yes technology is essential to our lives but it shouldn't take over our lives. Putting out phones down can be better for all of us in feeling that human connection.
I live in Ireland and most people my age (I'm 39) and younger that I know are glued to their phones and addicted to social media. You can't have conversation with them because they just stare at the screen.
He has found his utopia, and as a puriest honours the off-grid lifestyle. We can all learn something from this man, and how we connect with mother nature. He's admitted he suffers from loneliness, which is a shame but not surprising . I hope he finds true love....
Surely we all need someone in our life to make us content as human beings. Personally I'd embrace this lifestyle later on in life. I'd need a little technology, just to balance it all out. Watching films and documentaries is a great way to learn, and relax of a evening. That would be my compromise most certainly.
I think i could live freely from all forms of programming, but I like videos to visualise mathematics and physics, that would be my balance, but I agree this lifestyle looks perfect... I just dont know where you can start doing this with no money... Where do you find unoccupied land and tools to create a home with no money... I would accept this lifestyle in a heartbeat... The idea of not being online is a beautiful one to me, yet I spend my whole existence wishing for change without knowing how to create it.
this man is the exact projection of what i want in my future, however i feel that there is still so much value in the information i can get off my phone, i feel i would never have come to the conclusion to reject consumerist society if i hadn’t stumbled my way through different veins of thought on the internet. I also think that the access to academic material and books online is invaluable, if i went this extreme i feel that the money i’d spend on all the books id buy to get this information would be too much to handle in a simple living lifestyle. I think that there is a way to manage technology that doesn’t divulge into consumerism, say keeping an old phone forever because there is no benefit in the new iphone23xc that isn’t mildly interesting consumerist trap.
There is a way to do both, be off grid as in solar electric but know what resorces is used in them have all you want but be able to justify the damage to the earth, its a balance no point living in the stone age, just choose what you need and get good quality items, you could keep the phone with internet but have it at a set location in your house not in your pocket gives you freedom and a useful tool.
You should be able to eventually learn to live without it. While the information is great and the availability is borderline unbelievable - how much of the information we access, the percentage of useful data we receive is very small.
What is so impossible that you need to know?
he aint worried about no corona. LOL
He’s an inspiration.❤️
I do enjoy this kind of program and it is fascinating and useful to see how people live without 'technics.' I would like to invite Mr. Boyle to Ontario, Canada, this winter. I know there are ways to can, preserve, ferment etc. for the winter but it would be a completely different scenario if he had to shovel 2 feet of snow to get out of his house. I think the real fun is to try to imitate his kind of life while using the technics as little as possible. Like pretending 'the grid' is down so no phone, no TV, no internet, no electric light, no microwave etc. This can be done with very little effort even in the winter. It might help us see that most of the things we would do without in this little game might be done away with long term.
Thank you Mark..
What about taxes?
If it wasn't for social media, I wouldn't have discovered Mark!!
Proper "technology detox"! 😆
Inspiring but did anyone see the irony of this video
Yay. I followed your link and here I am. This is very good
Чтобы не быть лицемерным, надо идти до конца - снять технологичную рубашку и штаны, выбросить технологичный топор! А он ещё и стрижется? Стрижка это тоже технология. Говорит на человеческом языке? Он должен замолчать, язык привнесен культурой в его голову
This man is a genius
He has impressive hands
I read "the moneyless man" as a young man and it genuinely changed my outlook on life.
Living away from technology
The tree was tree times the length hehe cool accent
We need to learn to live together as well
I love his books. Great man!
It’s really interesting when you wisit People like him
Great to hear Mathias
@@juliussilvanroundhouse? When
i just ran into this man from smooth gefixt channel, one of the best shows on youtube period, and he reflects all my life views. i was born in 88, to an old father who had an even older father when he had him, i feel like i grew up in the 50s-70s, based on how i was raised, i feel like my generation was the last , pure generation, meaning we passed through highschool without cell phones really for calls, and text and I never even liked having a phone. I have been fighting an uphill battle with the world it seems and even my family, to not use phones, people say well u have to. i can only see the future and the cost has always been so obvious to me, based on how i feel when using it. this man has quickly become a leader for me
oh yah on a further and related point about the watch Julius, i also have always refuse to wear a watch, i remember watching some doc about african life, somewhere in the bush, a reported asked, "if you dont have a watch, how do you know the time ever." he said, " something like, we are the keepers of the time itself, so we wouldnt need something to tell us that."
so how did he buy his land if he gave up money?
Очевидно, что до того как отказался.
Отказался от денег. Но не раздал все свои сбережения в фонд бедных. Лежат на счету или инвестированы. В свое время в России тоже был миллионер с козлиной бородкой, который "бросил всё" и ушёл с семьёй жить в деревню на всё натуральное. 😜 Потом наскучило и стал продавать "деревенские" хлеба в Питере и Москве по 700-1000 рублей ща буханку. Дочку продал замуж за породистого коня сыровару, который наделал ему внуков, потом бросил "деревенскую" невесту от миллионера. 😂
This is amazing
Has been years that didn’t hear about him, I live in USA
one of the best interviews i've ever seen. he is so right and his words are so inspiring!! gonna share with all my friends and family
Would LOVE to hear how he is dealing with Covid 19
I'm sure he isn't dealing with it at all. He lives in the woods alone.
He's probably just living his life as normal, like a lot of people here do.
Where are you located geographically?
How it is different between moneyless and homeless ?
I find their accents so comforting, they're speaking like some wise elders from the country
Good for him
I literally just watched the Smooth Getfixt video and it seemed very entertaining. :)
Is he related to Susan Boyle?
SOULJAH, JAHBLESS,,,,MARANATHA,
2 CHRONICLES 20:15
Just bought marks book, thanks to this video
Very good point about the washing machine. Not to mention it allowed for way more clothes to be washed way more often. The time and work we "save" with technology is always eaten up by more work created by it.
how did he get that stock of books and booze without money?
Books library or swapping. Booze, he makes his own.
He hasn't been living without money all his live and just limited these days
@@juliussilvanroundhouse? 🤡
This is absolutely brilliant. One genuine question springs to mind though. How on earth does he stay so well informed about the state of play in the world without technology?