to be validated 24/7 without distraction and interruption? Is it insecurity? Is there still an unannounced part of you that believes you're wrong, and so you must engage in Collapse Porn to smother those nasty, inconvenient doubts? And finally, I have to laugh at the troll label and the poisoning blogs accusation. That is so the teachers talking there, and it's so god-damned transparent and pathetically predictable. So High and Mighty. It betrays someone who craves order and by virtue of that it indicates a personality that seeks to control....and that's authoritarian and that is what Civilization is all about, and yet those who level these charges claim to be contrary to that. Give me a break. You want to talk about poisoned, check your own blood, both literally and figuratively, before you stick needles in other people's arms. And yes, I check mine regularly. There's plenty of poison there, and it requires a daily cleansing. First, it depicts closely what I'm doing with my acreage (I'm somewhere between you and Joel Salatin, but asking a Midwest farmer about how much he owns is like asking a guy in a bar how big his dick is) that I've rescued from the necropoculture industrial farming bleakscape around us. We observe many people getting out of their cars and taking pictures of our "farm," so the difference is substantial. Second, even though I often argue against farming/agriculture, it is here to stay, and I'm willing to compromise and make it work, at