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As someone who enjoys gardening: there's so much fucking money to be made in scaring (largely white & nervous) suburbanites into gearing up to grow fear gardens.
ain't no capitalism like "here's a catalog of stuff you can buy to fuck over the capitalists" capitalism
ain't no capitalism like "here's a catalog of stuff you can buy to fuck over the capitalists" capitalism
Meanwhile p much anytime you actually dig into the bio of someone claiming to have "homesteaded their way to independence," there's a whole-ass story they're hiding.
Thoreau: Mom did his laundry
Laura Ingalls Wilder & her dad: made living as gov't employees not homesteaders
Scott & Helen Nearing: trust fund babies
Laura Ingalls Wilder & her dad: made living as gov't employees not homesteaders
Scott & Helen Nearing: trust fund babies
At this point maybe some of the peanut gallery are thinking "But isn't it good & virtuous just to garden for its own sake?? How dare you attack gardening like this"
I said it's worth doing for its own sake once, nay, twice within this very thread, fair reader.
I said it's worth doing for its own sake once, nay, twice within this very thread, fair reader.
That was- as a matter of fact- the entire argument of the article that kicked off this hellscape of a thread.
"Yes gardening is good & worth doing. Just don't do it out of a hope for financial payoff or food security bc that will be disappointing."
"Yes gardening is good & worth doing. Just don't do it out of a hope for financial payoff or food security bc that will be disappointing."
Congrats on finally arguing yourself into the OP from like three days ago
In conclusion, there is a HUGE difference between the age-old tradition of BWABFG (burghers with a big fucking garden) and the relatively new, short-lived, & unhappy history of homesteading.
In conclusion, there is a HUGE difference between the age-old tradition of BWABFG (burghers with a big fucking garden) and the relatively new, short-lived, & unhappy history of homesteading.
But modern homesteading/self-sufficiency culture deliberately conflates those two things for the purpose of profit.
And even taken at face value, homesteading is self-parodying poison & always has been. The end
And even taken at face value, homesteading is self-parodying poison & always has been. The end
