Friday, May 30, 2008

So What Would You Take?

Check out what this guy is planning on doing:

French explorer and adventurer Xavier Rosset is about to embark on a 300
day trip to live alone on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. His
adventures will be filmed and used for a 52 minute documentary.Xavier’s only
luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete video camera and a solar panel for
charging the camera. He will spend 10 months alone on an island to develop
another way of life through an exciting adventure, a return to the elemental
sources. Xavier will survive alone on an island without human interference and
without polluting emissions.

OK, so aside from the craziness of the idea, and I won't get into the whole lack of "human interference and polluting emissions" because I think that in itself is a farce and all he's trying to do is get publicity in this "green" world.

What would you take with you?

H/T - The Islomaniac

3 comments:

  1. He's just nuts.
    We'll see if he actually survives. I'm not a believer in Darwin's theory but ya know...

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  2. Is this story only intended to American audience? Is A. Gore sponsored him? Because I haven't heard of him before.
    I'm sure his exploit will be recorded on eco-dvd, and his publisher will only sell it to solar panel home owner!
    What an idiocy. And when he will become sick by drinking pure-contaminated-water or hurting himself with his Swiss made knife, he 'll be rapatriated by medicalized plane with help of our Health Care industrialized-consumer-society . Will he get to South Pacific swimming? No, just to know? I'm just curious.
    Thanks Mylhibug to find all these weird eccentricities in our society.

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  3. UGH.
    I'm so tired of these "back to nature...the world was so much better before indutrialization" attitudes...
    Take a look at John Taylor Gatto's
    "Underground History of American Education" book Read on-line at:
    johntaylorgatto.com He has a great chapter about all of the Utopian Communities that have arisen...and failed badly! (chapter six)
    Blessings, EJT
    PS: Ask Jenni to "stop by"
    and chat!

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