This isn't even a good article, but we all kinda know it. The suburb, the detached single family home, the kitchen, the laundry room, the garage, the car, they're all anti-culture weapons designed to destroy human beings and make consumers out of their bones.

Like ha ha ha I am detached and ironic but god it hurts so much having to live in this fucking anti-human nightmare society knowing that fascists turned the whole country in a labyrinth with the express purpose of creating exhausted, lonely, isolated, helpless people. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare.

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[–] Red_Eclipse@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wtf so that's why I was happiest in college. kitty-cri

This must also be why every time I try to find actionable solutions it's always written for cities and people who live in cities. I'm always like, what about us rural people??? Wtf am I supposed to do? Ah, it's because it's aggressively designed to be immune to those types of actions.

But I feel like this way of life has me permanently broken. I could move to a city where it's easier to organize. But I can't handle it. It's too much for my senses and I miss the green of nature. But out here is atomized, alienated isolated hell. Also because of the well-off whiteness of home ownership, it's primarily fascistland with Trump flags everywhere too. Even if I tried to do something I'd probably be chased out of town. thonk-cri

[–] hellishharlot@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ideal for folks like you I'd expect is a suburban distanced commune structured like a college campus. Big central building, lots of greenery, some housing and amenities but otherwise walkable and community focused. Like a little microcity with ideally a train running to and from the more quiet and green commune to a larger space with more urbanized environments

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

That's my dream. Huge, dense cities, and then outside the cities small communally focused villages spaced regularly, connected by arterial transit systems to the big intercity rail lines. Lots of bikes and very compact electric trolleys.

[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

But I feel like this way of life has me permanently broken

I've had that same thought multiple times.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

In some places, like medieval europe, the rural town had everyone's houses clustered together, often around a sizeable commons. And then the farm fields would be all around the town. Of course the scale was very different, but from what i understand it mostly wasn't like america with isolated farmhouses a mile apart.