It would be so cool to fight with Caesar in Gaul and commit genocide, bro!

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  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • astigmatic [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      just move to mexico bro

      • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        they've got a more intact agrarian holiday tradition than the US but lets not pretend capitalism hasn't made it worse, like everywhere

        • astigmatic [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          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