This guy completely fails to understand the agrarian roots of American society. He needs to experience a very cold and lean winter without work, welfare or a full pantry. Maybe two or three years like this… with some hardcore scavenging for survival. He also needs to work, I mean physical labor, outside for a full winter. Then he will perhaps begin to understand the importance and meaning of growing and gathering your own food.
Agreed.
I also think he's indulging in a form of "luxury belief" that agriculture is low-class and nasty.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4001512/posts
quoting
https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of-the-leisure-class-a-status-update/
"The chief purpose of luxury beliefs is to indicate evidence of the believer’s social class and education. Only academics educated at elite institutions could have conjured up a coherent and reasonable-sounding argument for why parents should not be allowed to raise their kids, and should hold baby lotteries instead. When an affluent person advocates for drug legalization, or anti-vaccination policies, or open borders, or loose sexual norms, or uses the term “white privilege,” they are engaging in a status display. They are trying to tell you, “I am a member of the upper class.” '"
Sneering at our nation's agricultural roots is a form of "luxury belief" and thus status signaling.