Living off the grid: Rugged Individualism or Romanticism?

Living off the grid is an example of Rugged Individualism. Living off the gird is a term used to describe people who don't want to be involved in modern society, or be controlled by the government. When you live off the grid, you do everything independently. For example, they grow their own food, build their own houses, live without electricity, ext. People who live off the grid are the modern version of the frontier men and women. You see living off the grid in media as well. For example, show that depict people living off the wilderness, or trying to survive in a place with very little communication with people is an example of living off the grid. To live off the grid, you need to be able to live without help from anybody, but yourself, and becoming an independent person, and that's what Rugged Individualism is about.