Posted on 09/30/2015 8:49:25 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Yup. We live in the sticks, way back off the road; house not visible from the one-way access road. Yard full of moss; a little bit of grass, sparse backyard. Husband mows it; but it’s not manicured. Big dog rolling in the dusty bare spots; her and the cat.
If that were the author's only point I'd be in full agreement, but I have seen liberals jump on this "lawns are an ecological nightmare" bandwagon before, and frankly, this article seems to be a thin attempt to drive that agenda.
For some reason, liberals are never satisfied until everybody is as slovenly and degraded as they are. And then they moan and complain with contempt and envy that the only reason all those hard-working people got to where they are is because of "white privilege". You know, the "rich" stole it off the backs of others so we must tear them down.
Yeah, he's just talking about lawns, but it is a unique metaphorical example of the liberal mindset.
Look at the rest of the world. It is how the vast majority of the serfs live. From Europe to Asia to South America —commie blocs blight the landscape and open land sits.
He has a point... on his head.
Look, the lawn is native to damp Scotland. It works great in the Eastern US. If it doesn’t work great in Texas, say Texans shouldn’t imitate those Easterners. Leave us Easterners alone.
Yup, lawns suck. Time wasted keeping them manicured, gardening space wasted, natural diversity forbidden.
Housing development (a poorly applied term in this case) Serenbe in Georgia http://serenbe.com bans mowed lawns. Most lawns are nicely kept and interesting, either as gardens or curated natural mini fields/forests.
“At the time, I chalked this up to my neighbor being an uptight jerk, an assessment I stand by.”
Wrong. My lawn, my land. Stay the hell off it and keep your opinions to yourself.
I like my lawn, I like doing my lawn, I like looking at my lawn because it relaxes me, and I like my children being able to play on my lawn. It is my lawn on my property to do with as I wish. Someone else’s judgement of that doesn’t matter to me because it’s mine, not theirs.
Well said.
But don’t lawns turn CO2 into Oxygen? Seems like a good thing to me.
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...but not necessarily a good one. I've been in neighborhoods where lawns are beautiful, except for one that looks like the home is abandoned. When one person's behavior affects others, there is what is called an externality. Externalities can be good or bad. If you choose not to mow your lawn, you create a bad externality for your neighbors, especially if they are trying to sell their house. If you don't want to care for your lawn, why buy a house with a yard? Buy a condo with no yard or one where the HOA fees cover lawn care. Imposing your slovenly behavior on your neighbors, to me at least, is simply wrong.
I agree but in a different way...we are Bee Keepers and the obsession to have the “perfect” lawn is killing the bees.
Our “perfect” lawn is a lawn covered in dandelions and clover...
Instead of a lawn everyone should put in a nice vegetable garden. In the war they were called Victory Gardens and planted for a different reason.
I like the natural rock gardens too. Just not the white rock of the southwest so much. I welcome the native species to my semi-rural property: wild grapevines, poison ivy, stinging nettles, blackberries, virginia creeper, jewelweed, and in springtime, the trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit, mayflowers, etc. All part of nature’s gift to the American eastern decidious forest. Grass? An illegal immigrant!
Another excellent point! Just like a liberal. He is too snotty and lazy to take care of his own yard so he sends his kids to play on his neighbors!
Just like every other liberal who is too lazy to work and sucks off the public teat.
Nice. Of course, it makes it very difficult for neighborhood kids to sneak on the lawn to retrieve a football.
I imagine this a-hole is a stranger to paint, too. Too cheap to buy a power mower, he mooches off his elderly neighbor, who, to help keep the neighborhood from looking like a-holes live there, mows the a-hole’s lawn himself at constant risk of falling. Screw this lazy slob.
>>Liberal utopian apartments. This is what they think people should live in. It is what all communists force people to live in.
The article is about using native ground cover that can survive with only natural rainfall. A well-manicured lawn that must meet strict community standards is actually a collectivist ideal.
Wasting water on non-productive crops is stupid.
I think that sums it up without any further modifiers.
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