In an alienating world, mowing the lawn is deeply satisfying. There are bigger reasons for that.
A crazy thing happened when I moved from the big city to a house in the suburbs a few years ago. I liked it!
I didn’t just like it in the sense that I liked having enough space for my children and their stuff. That’s a plus, but not what I’m talking about here. I also didn’t really end up caring that my wife and I had moved to a purportedly trendy town in New Jersey where a lot of “creative class” workers live. Almost none of the people we actually meet here are in the media or entertainment business, and the food scene is not a strong one.
I was not a handy person; I didn’t know anything about home or yard maintenance except for having mowed lawns as a kid. I was also conditioned to view the suburban home—and particularly its lawn—with skepticism and even contempt. The cultural and political literature is nearly unanimous on this front.
, that the behavior of any homeowner is most easily understood as the selfish compulsion to “protect the value of their investment.”
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