Part of the point of my counter argument was to illustrate the silliness of the original argument. So I don’t really disagree with you here. I wouldn’t categorize myself as a love it or leave it type at all, but I do get a little tired of pissing and moaning from those that want to be part of this society, but get out of paying for their share of the bills, so I may occasionally call a bluff.
Religious indoctrination of children.
the concept of the “Lawn” in its entirety.
dumping drinking water onto a patch of ground who’s only purpose is what?
Spending time mowing the lawn who’s only purpose is what?
Spending time earning money to pay for the gas and mower and other crap used to care for the lawn who’s only purpose is what?
then spending no time at all on or using the lawn who’s only purpose is what?
If you ever forget your fellow man are sheep just take a drive through any neighborhood in America where people have lawns.
A “lawn” that gets too unkempt isn’t any different from “the woods.” Which means that your “lawn” will soon be home to mice, snakes, bugs, and other shit that doesn’t belong in a residential neighborhood. So I will continue to cut my lawn, thank you very much. It takes less than a gallon of gas a year to keep a lawn cut regularly.
But I do agree with you about the watering nonsense. It rains, that’s enough.
Now I’m imagining a bunch of suburbanites peacefully grazing out front.
Pave over your lawn and then you will never need to cut or maintain it.
If I wanted to live in the concrete jungle I would.
Step 1, Remove lawn
Step 2, put in native plants and maintenance free landscaping.
Step 3, enjoy
I have to agree, a paved in house would suck, but there are other options.
I might be wrong here, but it seems like there’s a good deal of overlap in this thread between “things people will see as horrible in the future” and “Things I, the person posting, don’t like.” I guess I’m wondering, to what extent do you think that the things you’re predicting will happen and to what extent do you just wish they’ll happen?
Because it seems like in the future, people could be shocked by the fact that we in 2013 don’t eat our dead, or that South Dakotans aren’t tortured in grand public spectacles for the amusement of the godkings and their tatooed servant-autarchs.
The only maintenance-free landscaping I have seen either takes more maintenance than expected, or looks really shitty. Recently, a selling homeowner nearby decided to remove his “maintenance-free” lawn and replace it with a conventional one because the buyers thought it looked terrible. And it did. It takes a lot of work to keep it maintenance-free.
As a buyer of a house with a “maintenance free” yard I can tell you it takes a lot more maintenance than a lawn. Maybe less water but definitely more maintenance.
Driving your own vehicle. When self-driving vehicles are shown to be safer and more reliable than those driven by humans, I imagine driving oneself around will quickly be deemed suicidally, homicidally insane.
The reluctance of so many people to fund their social infrastructure and organizations; that people would believe they have no responsibility to their community and great society.
And chemotherapy.
I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition.