Suburb brain comes from an old england-cool tradition of flexing on the poors by having land that was not used to grow food. I am not kidding. That was the flex.

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The idea of American suburbs is that everyone (read: settlers) will live like royalty. You will have your own horse and buggy (SUV), and you will be so wealthy that your land is simply used to grow grass, as a flex. It is a celebration of excess.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The worst thing about lawns is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Such a good essay.

https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As soon as a person/consumer acquires a lawn, their demand for lawns jumps to a higher level, and the more of other people's lawns that are around, the more diluted the value of one's own lawn becomes; the economy functionally cannot meet the demand for people having a lawn.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Begun, the lawn wars have.

God I remember my uncle's lawn-feud with his neighbor, them constantly trying to one-up each other with nicer lawns. Pathetic.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

I think it was first (or at least equally) a flex by france-cool , and quickly spread from there.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah but oaks dont grow food either, they could plant oaks. they're trees. they're amazing. more trees.

it would provide shade in the summer, lowering the AC bills. for fuck's sake.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it's even worse. the front yards are totally open, no fence or hedge, so they're 100% unusable. i'll never understand why americans dont put a fence across their front yard.

unless it's to hide the fact that the public land their roads are on arent wide enough to have a reasonable sized road and on both sides, a verge of trees, a sidewalk and another verge of trees (this could be in the private front yards of the houses).

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Landlords don't like pets, put a fence around a rental property and your asking for a renter to find a dog to keep in the fenced area.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

THE HORROR