[Homestead] Lifestyle appraisal

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Mon Nov 17 10:29:37 EST 2008


On Nov 17, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:

>> It takes a 'different' sort of  person to shrug-off  society's  
>> condemnation
> of your lifestyle. Think about the Nearings...before they were  
> famous, they
> were considered kooks and outcasts.

Scott Nearing did things to justify those labels even before he left  
his scholastic and urban political life.

The majority of Americans view the homestead lifestyle as going  
backwards, and those of us doing it as strange anomalies who cannot be  
understood by modern logic. For the last thirty-two years, as I have  
moved in and out of urban and rural life I have been amused by the  
many urbanites who asked "why" and the many more who became speechless  
or mumbled polite platitudes.

I see us as possessed of a modicum of nostalgia but mostly an  
unusually large amount of common sense and strong belief in ourselves.




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