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not the nyt but we still get the new yorker delivered and i have a weird post-pandemic aversion to it but whenever i pick it up - and yes i realize its the new yorker and its mascot wears a big top hat and a monocle - but i feel like they have just gone full speed ahead into some rarified peak capitalism world of ugh. these profiles that are just wide-eyed recitations of some rich guy's WILD exploits and all these weird justifications for excessive wealth. so, unfortunately, i can't unsee it and every page of the thing just seems like a capitalist apologia. maybe i'm just sensitive. taken for granted privilege is alive and well there. the times is so frequently ugh that i could probably post links here daily. there is a frantic nero-fiddling quality to conspicuous consumption now. this could be it. spend it while ya got it. or start a kicky little non-profit on the side. or buy a yacht. whatevs.
― scott seward, Thursday, 31 August 2023 16:42 (nine months ago) link
one month passes...
Some winners in this article:
They Fled City Jobs. Now, It’s Time for Farm Prom. A group of young urbanites gave up desk jobs to become farmers. They have earned the harvest party.
There was an oyster farmer with his date, a sometime organic-farm-stand cashier in a vintage fur, and a sungold-tomato grower in a plastic prom-king crown. At D.J. decks set atop a bale of hay was a flower farmer in a silver gown, bopping her head, which was topped with the Carhartt beanie she wears to work the fields.
But these farmers were not tilling the fields of America’s heartland.
Outside the barn doors were beach houses and wineries and the seaside resorts of Eastern Long Island. Few of the farmers stomping work boots on the dance floor came from agrarian roots. Most were corporate or academic refugees, who in recent years said they found new meaning in growing things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/nyregion/farmer-prom-long-island.html
― o. nate, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:36 (seven months ago) link
Peter Treiber Jr., 35, an artist and vegetable grower on whose farm the dance took place
Google sez it's actually his father's farm, purchased after retiring from the family insurance brokerage.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:48 (seven months ago) link
reminds me of the new yorker article on the fabulous new trend of FORAGING. the irony of rich people digging for edible plants when most of the world has been doing it forever lost on the people involved. omg, can you believe it, there's actual FOOD in the woods. and then the flood of wild mushroom photos on social media was unleashed.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 16:15 (seven months ago) link
don't get me wrong, i hate them too, but i'm honestly glad for rich people that they're discovering "growing stuff". presumably they are actually doing some growing themselves. not going to click thru and read about it though lol.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 27 October 2023 16:26 (seven months ago) link
two months pass...
four months pass...