So I'm sure someone has done a better analysis of this, but the liberal-progressive fascination with rural life--a sort of modern pastoralism, but even more idealistic than its predecessor--that led to "Cottage-Core" is really fucking weird
Conservatives don't seem to have this idealism because they're--at least by association--more familiar with the mundane realities of rural and homestead life, and it's not like "I want to fuck off to a cabin" is a new phenomenon for the people of the cosmopolity, but it seems like this version is someone more sterilized and commodified than ever before
Its convergence with New Age nonsense and pseudo-pagan fetishism is not a particular surprise either, it's just odd how a people who are so utterly dependent upon the Internet, social media, takeout, and one-day delivery to their doorstep have created such a carefully curated fantasy that is contingent on not having those things
COVID has definitely created that sort of impulse in cosmopolitan PMC libs. Privilege is when your mode of survival is an aesthetic choice rather than a necessity.
So I'm sure someone has done a better analysis of this, but the liberal-progressive fascination with rural life--a sort of modern pastoralism, but even more idealistic than its predecessor--that led to "Cottage-Core" is really fucking weird
Conservatives don't seem to have this idealism because they're--at least by association--more familiar with the mundane realities of rural and homestead life, and it's not like "I want to fuck off to a cabin" is a new phenomenon for the people of the cosmopolity, but it seems like this version is someone more sterilized and commodified than ever before
Its convergence with New Age nonsense and pseudo-pagan fetishism is not a particular surprise either, it's just odd how a people who are so utterly dependent upon the Internet, social media, takeout, and one-day delivery to their doorstep have created such a carefully curated fantasy that is contingent on not having those things
The fantasy of not having dozens of steel deathtraps almost turning me into a bloody smear whenever I run up the street for milk is kinda real tho
COVID has definitely created that sort of impulse in cosmopolitan PMC libs. Privilege is when your mode of survival is an aesthetic choice rather than a necessity.
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everytime i see cottagecore i imagine some hardcore punk folk/bluegrass fusion and then realize that genre probably actually exists.
Folk punk? But less crust more banjo I guess. Days n daze has a broom handle bass player and a washboard player.
Avail occasionally had a steel guitar and called themselves "redneck punk" sometimes not sure if that's as sweet as washboard + handle though