---
name: Locusts and Wild Honey
slug: locusts-and-wild-honey
type: diet / theological statement
status: legacy
version: 0.1.0
released: "circa 27 CE"
maintainer: the_wilderness
dependencies:
  - Jordan River (adjacent)
  - camel_hair_garment
  - radical_simplicity
  - prophetic_lineage
license: Public Domain (ancient)
tags:
  - asceticism
  - desert
  - subsistence
  - symbolic_nutrition
  - John_the_Baptist
---

Locusts and Wild Honey

What it actually is

A two-ingredient diet that functions simultaneously as sustenance, social critique, and theology.

How it works

You go into the desert. You stay there long enough that the question of what counts as food becomes genuinely open. Locusts are available, clean under Levitical law, and require no agriculture. Wild honey is wherever bees decided civilization wasn't necessary. You eat both. You develop opinions. People walk out from the cities to hear them.

The combination is not accidental. Protein from what the land launches at you. Sweetness from what no one planted or tended. The whole diet is an argument: that what the system provides is not required, and that what the system ignores can sustain a person completely.

Features

Zero supply chain. No merchants, no markets, no debt to any economy.
High symbolic density. Locusts evoke plague, abundance, and the edges of clean/unclean. Honey evokes the Promised Land, reward, wildness. Together they compress an entire worldview into two food groups.
Caloric adequacy. Locusts are approximately 60% protein by dry weight. This is not starvation theater.
Reproducible anywhere with sufficient wilderness. Scales poorly into urban environments, by design.

Configuration

# locusts-and-wild-honey.config.yml
location: desert_preferred
water_source: river_or_spring
shelter: minimal
social_calendar: empty
speech_output: unfiltered
ego_requirements: low
eschatological_urgency: high

Known bugs

Diet tends to correlate with confrontational public behavior toward political authority.
Practitioners frequently misidentified as unstable by users running default civilization settings.
"Wild honey" is occasionally misread as a metaphor. It is not. It is honey. From bees. Living wild.
Long-term users may develop an unsettling certainty that is difficult to debug or argue with.

Edge cases

If locusts are unavailable, the diet does not simply substitute another protein. The specificity is the point.
Practitioners who later accept invitations to palace dinners report significant configuration drift and adverse outcomes.
Urban re-implementation attempts (juice cleanses, intermittent fasting, raw diets) load the aesthetic without the dependency removal. These are forks, not ports.

FAQ

Q: Is this a diet or a philosophy? A: The spec does not distinguish between these. That distinction is a later addition by people who eat at tables.

Q: Can I try this without going to the desert? A: You can try. The desert is not decorative. It is a dependency.

Q: What does it taste like? A: Reportedly fine. No complaints are recorded from the practitioner.

Q: Is the honey a reward for eating the locusts? A: Possibly. Or the locusts are a fee for the honey. Or neither is payment for anything, which is the whole point.

Changelog

Version	Note
0.1.0	Initial deployment, Jordan River region
—	No subsequent versions. The spec was closed by external intervention before iteration.

drafting spec…