If I’m any more than a 15 minute walk to my nearest grocer I consider it hell. Fuck needing to pay insurance, maintenance, and gas costs just to be able to perform basic chores.
Needing to waste an hour just to get groceries sounds so dumb.
We don’t need to go to town. We grow almost all of our own food for the entire year. We don’t need movies or bars or restaurants or even…shocker…full time soul sucking jobs. though we do work for some cash flow. We have the internet and piracy, friends with back yards and basements and we can cook just fine, in fact I used to be a sous chef in a former life. We live on less money as a family of five than most single people do.
Our impact is minimal compared to yours I bet considering all my families food with the exception of a few items comes from the 250 acres of land surrounding my house and we care for that land to ensure we minimize the impact from our agriculture practices as much as we can.
That land also feeds my sister’s family and my father’s. We also provide to our local food bank all season long and barter a lot with our neighbors.
And you wonder why there are monumental societal rifts between rural areas and urban. It’s because of people like you who “know better” but have zero knowledge or experience to back it up.
Not like I literally went to college for wildlife conservation and have done entire reports on regenerative agriculture practices. My favorite is multispecies rotational grazing to help incorporate the whole ecosystem into how we cultivate the land. Though, my education spanned much more than just agricultural practices and more on ecosystem health and sustainability on macro scales.
I know much more than you think. I don’t really give a shit about your little bs rant. A lot of the bs you go on about are much deeper societal issues that are not unique to rural or urban life but the very fabric of our interconnected society as a whole. I don’t care about how little money you live your life on. Needing money is a much larger societal issue that needs to be solved and everyone fucking off into the woods to start their own individual homesteads is not how you make a functional society.
Yes, modern city life has issues and industrialized society is environmentally harmful, especially suburbia, but everyone living isolated plots is not sustainable in the slightest. Just because you and your family are able to do it doesn’t mean that everyone can while the entirety of society facilitating the existence of people wanting to live so spread and distanced from each other is causing massive resource drains and itself causes environmental harm in the externalities of facilitating it on a structural level.
As much as you like to imagine you live apart from society out in your little fiefdom, you’re still very much a part of it.
And you draw assumptions as well. I assure you I am a part of my society and fight for the things I believe in. You seem to know me so well you likely already are aware of that yet at the same time you don’t care at all.
I’m glad you studied It’s a smart thing to do. It’s a shame you are so knowledgeable yet so bound to a system that does not work for anyone and wastes the vast majority of its food in the name of capitalism. Your high horse seems to have lost its legs.
We can walk the talk and we do, so we’re pieces of shit for actually doing it. Shake your head.
Yes, I live in a society. Such a profound statement. Almost like that’s the goal so I put my effort into changing that society instead of thinking I’m so much better for having removed myself from it.
The point is they don’t need to go into town often. They have everything they need on their land. Different people prioritize different things and have different wants.
If I’m any more than a 15 minute walk to my nearest grocer I consider it hell. Fuck needing to pay insurance, maintenance, and gas costs just to be able to perform basic chores.
Needing to waste an hour just to get groceries sounds so dumb.
We don’t need to go to town. We grow almost all of our own food for the entire year. We don’t need movies or bars or restaurants or even…shocker…full time soul sucking jobs. though we do work for some cash flow. We have the internet and piracy, friends with back yards and basements and we can cook just fine, in fact I used to be a sous chef in a former life. We live on less money as a family of five than most single people do.
Our impact is minimal compared to yours I bet considering all my families food with the exception of a few items comes from the 250 acres of land surrounding my house and we care for that land to ensure we minimize the impact from our agriculture practices as much as we can.
That land also feeds my sister’s family and my father’s. We also provide to our local food bank all season long and barter a lot with our neighbors.
And you wonder why there are monumental societal rifts between rural areas and urban. It’s because of people like you who “know better” but have zero knowledge or experience to back it up.
Nice fucking assumptions asshat.
Not like I literally went to college for wildlife conservation and have done entire reports on regenerative agriculture practices. My favorite is multispecies rotational grazing to help incorporate the whole ecosystem into how we cultivate the land. Though, my education spanned much more than just agricultural practices and more on ecosystem health and sustainability on macro scales.
I know much more than you think. I don’t really give a shit about your little bs rant. A lot of the bs you go on about are much deeper societal issues that are not unique to rural or urban life but the very fabric of our interconnected society as a whole. I don’t care about how little money you live your life on. Needing money is a much larger societal issue that needs to be solved and everyone fucking off into the woods to start their own individual homesteads is not how you make a functional society.
Yes, modern city life has issues and industrialized society is environmentally harmful, especially suburbia, but everyone living isolated plots is not sustainable in the slightest. Just because you and your family are able to do it doesn’t mean that everyone can while the entirety of society facilitating the existence of people wanting to live so spread and distanced from each other is causing massive resource drains and itself causes environmental harm in the externalities of facilitating it on a structural level.
As much as you like to imagine you live apart from society out in your little fiefdom, you’re still very much a part of it.
conserving a whole lot i bet with that short walk to your local.
And you draw assumptions as well. I assure you I am a part of my society and fight for the things I believe in. You seem to know me so well you likely already are aware of that yet at the same time you don’t care at all.
I’m glad you studied It’s a smart thing to do. It’s a shame you are so knowledgeable yet so bound to a system that does not work for anyone and wastes the vast majority of its food in the name of capitalism. Your high horse seems to have lost its legs.
We can walk the talk and we do, so we’re pieces of shit for actually doing it. Shake your head.
Yes, I live in a society. Such a profound statement. Almost like that’s the goal so I put my effort into changing that society instead of thinking I’m so much better for having removed myself from it.
I live rurally so I have removed myself from society? You have some interesting ideas. Incorrect, assumptive ideas but ideas none the less.
The point is they don’t need to go into town often. They have everything they need on their land. Different people prioritize different things and have different wants.