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This is real - the agrarian-utopianist streak - but it's very sad. There is a middle course. Just unplug some and you'll be fine. If the TV has to be on, put i
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
This is real - the agrarian-utopianist streak - but it's very sad. There is a middle course. Just unplug some and you'll be fine. If the TV has to be on, put it on CSPAN or something.
It's not reading (I'm verging on post-literacy myself ) , but one of the Adam Curtis films* has a treatise about an agrarian-utopian communes late '60s. And of course it fell apart.
*"All Watched Over", I think.
I recommend some measure of Dionysian ... exercise - just don't hurt yourself. I have a few beers and play honky tonk music in actual honky tonks ( and somebody else is driving ) . The beers are optional, so I can drive myself, but it's a little less great that way.
- mosdave 10y ago> but it's very sad. what makes it sad?
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoIn a Louis CK "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy" way. Because in a non-agrarian-utopian way, we've managed to eliminate food insecurity. I think completely. If we could actually move it all around properly, nobody need starve. People starve because food is ... inconveniently located. So I am an Okie. I got an orange every year in my Christmas stocking. Okay, so it's an orange. Only years later did it dawn on me - people didn't have oranges. My parents didn't have oranges. In my lifetime ( or perhaps theirs; don't get too detailed on me ) , this happened. The sheer mass of human activity behind that symbol is .. terrifying. Throwing it away... I don't know how that works. My uncles, granduncles all farmed. It like to killed 'em. Now, it's just ... button pushing. We have no idea what we came from and what is at stake. And that is what makes me sad.