• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes I wish I could understand why people want this. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and it’s taught me that some REALLY fucked up things can be visited upon you by the 2 or 3 neighbors you have living 20 miles away and not even guns can save you.

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      1 year ago

      Well there’s two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.

      In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.

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        1 year ago

        either the nature or the solitude

        i think this is why i don’t get it: growing up in the middle of nowhere taught me that nature can fuck you over in an instant multiple times and living in suburbia gave me a cold & painful dose of reality when it comes to solitude.

        i suppose it looks nice if you’ve never experienced enough of the dark sides of nature and solitude.

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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          I used to live alone in the forest like that and I loved it. I can’t wait to move back.

          Yeah, nature can fuck me over but as long as I don’t have to deal with anyone I’ll manage.

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        1 year ago

        it’s the same story as it is every where capitalism is in charge: rich people want to get richer by taking land that isn’t theirs; they get the local gov’t to cut off water and salt the land to make people leave; then people leave.