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...You think Minnesota is cold all year round? Hooboy. I have it on good authority that MN summers are nigh-on unbearable and have a tendency to turn into indian summers.I would unironically like to live in Fargo, or Minnesota, somewhere that's cold all year round, heavy snow, blizzards and shit. Heat and warmth can go fuck themselves.
I notice a lot of us want peace & quiet. Rural towns, wooded hideaways.
I think there's a lot of "Rural Escapism" at play in the minds of our generation(s) for good reason. We're lashed to the noise and the spectacle of modern tech with no escape in sight - for as much as we enjoy its fruits it feels somehow wrong deep down to a lot of us. IMO the raw unfamiliarity of the world is responsible for the wave of anxiety and dread that seems to define us.
I suspect a lot of this has to do with us being the first generations in human history to experience technology & connectivity on the level we have. In a sense, we're all pioneers as we're charged with forming new survival strategies in the face of all this new tech. There's no blueprint for what we're doing and our species will expand upon the work we've done for thousands of years to come. The 'uncomfortability' of it all will probably drop off over time as successive generations adapt. They always do.
That still leaves us as the odd ones out, the first to have crossed that rubicon. We got thrust into all this. To quote my boi Terrence: "Every time a culture gets itself into trouble it casts itself back, to the last sane moment it ever knew." For us, that moment is pastoral idyll.