I unironically think it'd be kind of nice to be peasant/village person in one of the more pleasant periods of pre-industrial civilization. Mostly the really tight community is appealing, and the cultural institutions in most places are cool as fuck but too disruptive to capitalism for people to go full hilt on anymore. Imagine spending weeks to get everything ready for a festival, literally everyone you know is going to be there, it lasts several days, and you get to do that sorta thing several times a year, every year. No amount of 21st century parties could compare imo.
Imagine spending weeks to get everything ready for a festival, literally everyone you know is going to be there, it lasts several days, and you get to do that sorta thing several times a year, every year.
true, i mean, it’s weird. those still exist pretty widely and keep communities coherent while the participants have to sell their labor in the city and get fucked out of whatever else they have. of course it’s bad, i just mean, it hasn’t been wiped out of existence yet
Everyone imagines themselves as the elite in history.
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I unironically think it'd be kind of nice to be peasant/village person in one of the more pleasant periods of pre-industrial civilization. Mostly the really tight community is appealing, and the cultural institutions in most places are cool as fuck but too disruptive to capitalism for people to go full hilt on anymore. Imagine spending weeks to get everything ready for a festival, literally everyone you know is going to be there, it lasts several days, and you get to do that sorta thing several times a year, every year. No amount of 21st century parties could compare imo.
just move to mexico bro
they've got a more intact agrarian holiday tradition than the US but lets not pretend capitalism hasn't made it worse, like everywhere
true, i mean, it’s weird. those still exist pretty widely and keep communities coherent while the participants have to sell their labor in the city and get fucked out of whatever else they have. of course it’s bad, i just mean, it hasn’t been wiped out of existence yet