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The False Dream of Cottagecore | How the problematic romanticization of Western rural life reveals our discontent with the modern world
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this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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I can't say for sure, but I wonder about this supposedly lost connection with nature. How long ago did we lose it? Did we ever have it? Rurality was under Christianism, which taught its followers that nature's whole point was to be submitted to us. Education was scarce and ecology did not exist as a concept. Did we really commune with nature, or were are forefathers blindly wrestling with it?
I agree that First Nations still have a lot to teach us about nature. Cottagecore is not about them though.
You're right, and that's what I get for scrolling on Lemmy sleep deprived at night and not making the connection between cottagecore's specific religious colonial aesthetics and your comment.
My bad, I'll strike my previous statement.