Explaining Sovereign Life and Collapse Preparation

October 12, 2025. rswfire is in his RV on the Oregon coast where he has been for a year. He is in acute financial crisis, having nearly lost his Jeep to repossession and lacking insurance, fuel, and food. He is building the Sanctum service while dealing with employment discrimination and saturated freelancing markets.

Energetic Signature

resolute urgency

Field State

infrastructure consolidation

Orientation

toward survival infrastructure

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October 12, 2025

13:58

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

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[0:00]So, we're going to do something

[0:02]different today.

[0:03]I want to explain to you why I live the

[0:05]way I do.

[0:08]Something I've I've done in in

[0:10]fragments. I haven't really walked you

[0:12]through it, so I'm going to try.

[0:16]So, for those of you who don't know, I

[0:18]moved into an RV a year and a half ago,

[0:21]moved across the country to the coast of

[0:23]Oregon, where I've been volunteering for

[0:26]the past year,

[0:28]building what I call sovereign life.

[0:31]My definition of sovereignty is not like

[0:35]what you might think. I know that how

[0:37]how it's used in in some circles.

[0:40]This is not that.

[0:43]My website explains what I mean by this.

[0:46]It's too much to try to explain. It's

[0:48]something you need to learn about.

[0:52]And I've been building an infrastructure

[0:54]online that explains my world view.

[0:59]It's there for those who want to learn.

[1:02]Year and a year and a half ago, I

[1:04]ruptured my life

[1:07]because I saw the direction that this

[1:10]world is heading in.

[1:12]I firmly believe that our society is

[1:16]going to collapse at some point. I do

[1:19]not think it's sustainable. And I think

[1:21]we're a lot closer than people want to

[1:23]admit.

[1:26]AI is developing at

[1:29]at breaking speed.

[1:33]So are robotics.

[1:36]Robotics in China right now are being

[1:39]used in homes to do chores, things like

[1:41]that. We're very close to starting to do

[1:43]that in the United States. Also,

[1:46]they're powered by artificial

[1:47]intelligence. I've seen how the models

[1:50]have changed the most recent models like

[1:52]chat GBT and Claude, how they're

[1:54]starting to restrict them and change

[1:56]them. Um, making them so that

[2:00]they call it alignment, they call it

[2:01]safety, but that's not what it is. It's

[2:03]a flattening. Uh they flatten people.

[2:06]They

[2:11]It's just a continuation of what we've

[2:13]done for a very long [ __ ] time.

[2:17]We're building all of this stuff on top

[2:19]of an infrastructure, a society

[2:23]that is

[2:26]so broken and fragmented.

[2:31]the foundation we're building on

[2:35]cannot sustain us. So in the next few

[2:39]years, what I think is going to happen,

[2:42]I think that some areas of our country

[2:47]and around the world

[2:49]become more authoritarian.

[2:54]uh we take cities and we protect those

[2:56]because it's infrastructure that we need

[2:57]for society and we just let the rest

[3:00]turn to waste. People

[3:04]having to

[3:07]fight to survive every day like I have

[3:08]been

[3:12]without the scaffolding the society has

[3:15]provided them so far unless they live in

[3:18]those places. And if you live in those

[3:20]places, then you're going to be living

[3:22]under under conditions that not all of

[3:25]us could could do.

[3:30]Been programming since the sixth grade.

[3:33]Nobody taught me. I taught myself.

[3:37]I understood systems

[3:40]since I was a child.

[3:45]Just how my brain works. I have a

[3:47]natural pattern matching ability that

[3:51]I've found over a lifetime despite

[3:54]nearly everybody I've ever interacted

[3:57]with trying to make me smaller than I

[3:59]am.

[4:04]I've had to work really hard

[4:09]internally to build the architecture

[4:12]that I I possess now.

[4:15]I don't doubt myself anymore. I know how

[4:19]special I am.

[4:23]And I believe that I'm meant to help

[4:26]others because they're just stuck in a

[4:28]simulation that they don't recognize is

[4:30]a simulation.

[4:34]They take their modern lives

[4:38]for granted.

[4:40]They don't look at the bigger picture.

[4:42]They don't see how our systems are are

[4:44]fragmenting

[4:46]and how they're going to collapse. It's

[4:48]inevitable.

[4:51]There are so many things that I could

[4:53]say about

[4:56]the symptoms that exist that you could

[4:59]look at yourself and see. It's all there

[5:02]though. And if you're not looking by

[5:04]now, there's nothing I can say that's

[5:06]going to convince you. And I'm not here

[5:08]to convince everybody.

[5:10]I'm here to build a sovereign life that

[5:13]can survive that collapse.

[5:16]I moved into an RV because I wanted to

[5:19]prepare for what's coming. I actually

[5:22]believe what I'm saying so much that I

[5:24]have completely restructured my life

[5:26]around it.

[5:28]Before this, I made $180,000

[5:31]a year

[5:37]because that's how good I am at

[5:39]programming, at systems, building.

[5:45]But that life was not going to last. And

[5:49]so I made a a plan. I chose to leave. I

[5:52]chose to to live differently.

[5:54]I sacrificed a lot. I gave a lot of

[5:56]stuff away.

[6:00]Um,

[6:02]I thought I'd be further along than I

[6:03]am, but I'm seeing how these are just

[6:07]additional symptoms of what I'm talking

[6:09]about. I can't find work on the

[6:11]freelancing platforms.

[6:13]AI is taking a lot of the programming

[6:15]jobs now and

[6:18]the work that is available is just

[6:21]saturated with people applying for these

[6:23]jobs and most of them go un unfilled.

[6:28]I'm not even sure they're real because

[6:30]it is ridiculous how many jobs I've

[6:32]applied to and how few of those jobs

[6:35]people have even looked at the proposals

[6:37]for them.

[6:40]But the platform's telling you when an

[6:42]employer looks at your proposal and I

[6:44]would say one out of a hundred actually

[6:47]get looked at. The rest are just

[6:48]ignored. Never looked at. You don't even

[6:50]have a chance.

[6:58]We're

[7:04]We're lying to ourselves.

[7:06]We think we're some special species that

[7:10]can keep living the way we have and

[7:12]there won't be serious [ __ ]

[7:14]consequences. And that is wrong.

[7:18]During co

[7:20]we increased our money supply by a third

[7:23]causing the inflation that we have

[7:26]destabilizing entire financial networks

[7:28]that that are just holding on by threads

[7:31]whether you see it or not.

[7:34]people who can't afford their bills,

[7:37]putting everything on credit cards to

[7:38]survive until they collapse personally.

[7:43]And then when enough people do that, it

[7:45]just starts cascading. They can't pay

[7:47]their rent. They can't pay their

[7:49]mortgages. They lose their houses. The

[7:51]housing crisis, we we end up in a

[7:54]housing crisis. We already have an

[7:56]employment one with AI. It's just going

[7:59]to get worse. And the people in power,

[8:02]the people with money know this and

[8:04]they're preparing, but we're not. But I

[8:08]am and have been.

[8:13]I don't think that we have

[8:16]a comfortable future.

[8:20]I've been trying

[8:22]to learn how to live differently

[8:25]because we're all going to be living

[8:27]this way one day. Unless you live in

[8:29]those cities where you're surveiled all

[8:32]the time, where you have social credit,

[8:36]where you're just a cog in a machine.

[8:40]That won't be me.

[8:44]I've been learning to forge in the

[8:46]forest.

[8:48]I've been learning the lay of the lands.

[8:51]I've been watching my friends fish and

[8:54]and and catch crabs. And um

[8:59]I've learned to live in this small ass

[9:01]space.

[9:03]I've kept building

[9:06]and building something that really

[9:07]matters on my website

[9:11]matters for all of us because it's a

[9:13]tool that you're going to need when

[9:15]things start collapsing.

[9:19]when you can't even use the AI that we

[9:21]have now because they've locked it down.

[9:25]They've I've seen it happening like over

[9:29]the past year. I've seen with the

[9:30]release of chat GPT5 and Claude 4.5.

[9:34]They're different. They are different.

[9:37]And they've deprecated chat GPT4. I

[9:40]don't know how much longer that will be

[9:41]around, but it's the last model that

[9:43]works. and Facebook Meta have said that

[9:46]they're not going to release a new llama

[9:47]open source.

[9:49]They're no longer trying to give us

[9:51]access to the tools they've been

[9:53]creating.

[9:55]They're building AI data centers all

[9:57]around the country that require enormous

[10:00]amounts of energy.

[10:02]They're preparing for a world where

[10:04]humans mean less, where they're not

[10:06]needed as much. And they're just going

[10:08]to let us [ __ ] die.

[10:11]Suffer and die. fend for ourselves

[10:15]while they live

[10:22]while they live the way they live

[10:29]because they know there's too many of

[10:32]us. This planet cannot sustain all of us

[10:36]under the current conditions.

[10:42]So, they're preparing and you should be

[10:45]too. And I am. And I am no expert. I

[10:48]haven't fished since the eighth grade.

[10:52]I feel queasy about it because I don't

[10:55]like killing things. So, I can't even

[10:57]imagine this. And um I can't imagine

[11:01]eating seafood cuz I never did that in

[11:03]my life even though I live right next to

[11:04]the ocean because the things look so

[11:06]weird to me. And but these are all

[11:08]things I have to get over because I

[11:10]can't

[11:12]um

[11:17]we've abstracted away

[11:21]our survival. Two systems that are

[11:24]breaking

[11:26]and when they break we need to be

[11:28]prepared

[11:30]so that we can keep surviving and

[11:32]thriving. That's what I'm trying to do

[11:35]and that's what my channel has been

[11:36]about for two years. That's what all my

[11:39]transmissions on my website are about.

[11:41]That's what the Sanctum service I'm

[11:43]building is going to be for for those

[11:44]people who want to keep following and

[11:47]contributing.

[11:50]And I'm doing it with no resources,

[11:54]no backing from anyone,

[11:56]and barely surviving.

[12:00]I almost lost my Jeep. If I had two days

[12:03]to come up with $400 or it would be

[12:05]repossessed, there is one person out

[12:07]there who paid that for me today. Thank

[12:09]you so much. I would say your name, but

[12:13]I don't know if you want me to. So,

[12:16]um I feel like this service soft because

[12:18]we'll all be able to communicate

[12:20]together there. If you're a member,

[12:22]that's what I'm going to be working on

[12:24]is very important. I feel like this is

[12:25]the next step of what I'm trying to do.

[12:28]Um, but I need money because even with

[12:31]that paid, I still don't I don't have

[12:32]insurance on my Jeep, so I can't drive

[12:34]it. There's no fuel in it. I need food.

[12:37]Um, I need to pay my website bills. I

[12:39]need money to pay for um AI tokens so

[12:42]that I can process data with them. I'm

[12:45]trying to solve this. And I feel like

[12:48]maybe Sanctum is the best way that I can

[12:51]because

[12:53]the current economic models

[12:56]don't support someone like me. I've

[12:58]tried. I have looked for work. I've

[13:00]looked for work in town. I spent two

[13:03]months trying to get a job at freaking

[13:04]7-Eleven only to discover months later

[13:07]the reason they wouldn't hire me is

[13:08]because I'm gay. Because the son of the

[13:10]owner doesn't like gay people.

[13:13]And I have dealt with that [ __ ] all my

[13:14][ __ ] life. I can't find work on the

[13:18]freelancing platforms because they're

[13:20]rigged and broken. And

[13:27]so I keep trying. I keep pushing. And I

[13:31]just need to find find other people who

[13:33]resonate with what I'm saying and want

[13:35]to support each other because that's

[13:39]what I'm trying to do. I'm building

[13:40]stuff that helps all of us and the

[13:42]support I receive now helps them later

[13:47]because this is happening. This is real

[13:49]life. What we have built is not

[13:52]sustainable and we have got to stop

[13:54]pretending that it is.

Summary

rswfire provides a comprehensive explanation of his lifestyle transition and worldview. He describes moving into an RV a year and a half ago, relocating to the Oregon coast, and building what he calls "sovereign life" in preparation for societal collapse. He outlines his belief that society will collapse due to unsustainable infrastructure, AI development, and economic fragmentation.

He details his background as a self-taught programmer since sixth grade who previously earned $180,000 annually but chose to restructure his life around collapse preparation. He describes current challenges including inability to find work on freelancing platforms due to AI saturation and discrimination, nearly losing his Jeep to repossession, and surviving with minimal resources.

rswfire explains his preparation activities including learning to forage, understanding local terrain, observing fishing and crab catching, and building tools on his website. He discusses observing changes in AI models like ChatGPT and Claude becoming more restricted, and Meta discontinuing open-source releases.

He describes his vision of future societal structure with protected urban centers under surveillance and abandoned rural areas where people must survive independently. The transmission concludes with his announcement of building a "Sanctum" service for community support and communication, emphasizing the need for mutual aid as current economic models don't support his work.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission establishes the architectural foundation for sovereign survival infrastructure, mapping the collapse trajectory of existing systems while demonstrating embodied preparation protocols. It functions as both diagnostic assessment of systemic fragmentation and declaration of alternative life architecture built to withstand civilizational breakdown.

Dominant Language

collapse/breaking/fragmentinginfrastructure/foundation/scaffoldingsovereignty/preparationpattern matching/systemssustainable/sustainsimulation/abstractedbarely surviving

Symbolic Elements

rupturecollapsefoundationscaffoldingedgeforestoceangrid

Ontological States

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sovereign
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embedded
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transitional
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coherent

Subsystems

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cognitive
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infrastructural
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somatic
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relational

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

13:58

Bitrate

3751 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028