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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2017-05-26 01:34 pm
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Lawn Craze
Here's a comic about the lawn craze. Some further thoughts ...
It goes a lot farther back than postwar suburbs. Lawns started as a status symbol among European aristocracy.
Advice to stop watering, fertilizing, mowing, etc. or to replace lawns with something else is great -- if it's legal. In many areas it is not, and people are fined or even evicted for being unwilling or unable to keep their lawn in a manner pleasing to others. Such laws are bad for disability and bad for the environment, but those are things fewer people care about than power. Check the local level of tyranny before trying to solve lawn-related problems.
It goes a lot farther back than postwar suburbs. Lawns started as a status symbol among European aristocracy.
Advice to stop watering, fertilizing, mowing, etc. or to replace lawns with something else is great -- if it's legal. In many areas it is not, and people are fined or even evicted for being unwilling or unable to keep their lawn in a manner pleasing to others. Such laws are bad for disability and bad for the environment, but those are things fewer people care about than power. Check the local level of tyranny before trying to solve lawn-related problems.
Re: Yes...
I also don't work in the health insurance industry, which is vastly and wildly different than the property and casualty and the life insurance industry. They require entirely different discussions, and the issues involved are vastly different.
Re: Yes...
That's pretty much inevitable with any large complex issue. It is sometimes possible to separate one small part for discussion, but as they all tie together, that's not always useful.
>> but we're also running into the problem with why I don't talk in any great detail about my field of employment outside of work: I'm also not going to deal with the negative perception of the industry and those employed in it, which affects literally every discussion of the industry I have with someone who doesn't work in it. <<
That makes sense. It sounds like a lousy work situation.