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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Lifestyle appraisal
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:29:37 -0700


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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