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Is it any wonder that people are becoming anachronistic, when everything we invented and used to sell to the world is now manufactured in China and sold back to us?
Nobody can afford the time it takes to become a cabinet maker because, no community of American ancestral architecture can afford to pay skilled workers the wage they'd deserve for acquiring the skills required to maintain 150 y/o housing stock. Is it any wonder our children and grand-children are building houses on trailers, or in vans?
The human impulse is straining to break free of the goddmned economy, and big education keeps trying to sell us loans so we can double down on nothing much, at all.
In our '1st-world' economy, farmers are sitting 11 feet off the ground in air-conditioned cabs listening to Rush Limbaugh on satellite radio while they harvest wheat.
Is it any wonder that someone, maybe some wealthy child or grandchild we know, wants to stand on the Earth itself, put their hands into the crops they've grown and harvest them into the satchel on their hip?
I find nothing laughable in the actual human act of farming. In my community it's how a lot of people feed their children, or afford less basic necessities.
If you hadn't seen the ad you'd have never noticed them at all. And the impoverished rural American has been here struggling and losing you're whole life. And yes, they've been "artisanal farming".
The next time we all drive by a family member sitting in the shade behind their truck of produce, let's stop, and let's buy something.
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