http://www.metafilter.com/tags/rurallife Posts tagged with 'rurallife' at MetaFilter. Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:25:56 -0800 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:25:56 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64398/Go%2Dwith%2Dyour%2Dlove%2Dto%2Dthe%2Dfields "My general feeling about farmers is that they can go fuck themselves."<a href="http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article09040702.aspx"> The most recent essay</a> published in the new online magazine '<a href="http://www.thesmartset.com/">The Smart Set</a>', is a rather contrarian view of rural life, and poses an interesting question: just why does our society have a general consensus that rural=good and urban=bad?<br /><br /> "What do the farmers really believe, anyway? ... Don't they know that the mute indifference of nature is as terrifying and empty as the noisy scrambling of the metropolis?" tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64398 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:25:56 -0800 ebwhite essays farming onlinemagazine rurallife woodblock100