The City, The Country

[mixed_biscuits]

Stockton-on-Tees

 

[mixed_biscuits]

All our countryside is cultivated land. Bureaucratic landscape. Mondrian nightmare land. Really making me insane the more I think about it.

What do you think of people's gardens?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

@Corpsey buy a hang-glider and follow a bee around.

 

[sus]

My vote will always be for the Country-City dialectic. This is like a poll survey asking Yin or Yang. It's unanswerable. It's missing the point.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

My vote will always be for the Country-City dialectic. This is like a poll survey asking Yin or Yang. It's unanswerable. It's missing the point.

For most of human history cities didn't exist.

 

[sus]

For most of human history cities didn't exist.

Neither did toilet paper or beer, alas

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Neither did toilet paper or beer, alas

The beerless hominid is considered pre-human.

 

[sus]

Beer and cities co-develop contemporaneously

 

[sus]

The agricultural revolution, fermented barley, and permanent settlements are all wrapped up in each other. You can't make beer without permanent settlements. Some archaeologists think beer-brewing was a major driver in the development of cities.

 

[sus]

https://www.dissensus.com/tags/biscuits-balls-ground-to-dust/

 

[other_life]

The beerless hominid is considered pre-human.

twinkles of genuine insight like this one make you -more- frustrating vis a vis your hangups. Aleister crowley eat your heart out

 

[other_life]

The beerless hominid is considered pre-human. i like that

the peerless ombudsman, considered, pre-humus

 

[sus]

The beerless hominid is considered pre-human. i like that

the peerless ombudsman, considered, pre-humus

Here is Biscuits' man:

 

[Mr. Tea]

All our countryside is cultivated land. Bureaucratic landscape. Mondrian nightmare land. Really making me insane the more I think about it.

What you want, ideally, is a binary of total city and total nature. The feeling of an inside and an outside.

Sounds ideal if you don't like, or need, food.

 

[Mr. Tea]

For most of human history cities didn't exist.

Actually cities predate history by thousands of years.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[0bleak]

Göbekli Tepe - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Civilization is merely the means to produce and distribute beer

 

[DLaurent]

The 9 trendiest places to live in the West Midlands

A round-up of the coolest places in Birmingham, Shropshire, Worcestershire and the Black Country

www.birminghammail.co.uk

We visit the village named best place to live in Staffordshire

It is steeped in history, myth and legend

www.staffordshire-live.co.uk

 

[DLaurent]

I live in the trendiest/best village and the only thing I can find to do is fishing, suits me as I feel like I've grown out of cities.