Germinating the Real American Dream
There is a movement in America, and though understated and largely ignored by legacy media, it will determine whether or not the true American Dream survives. From our nation’s earliest days–even decades prior to the American Revolution–family farms with gardens, row crops and livestock were integral to American life, with few exceptions. The ability to obtain land, own it, cultivate it, and have it as a reliable resource for family’s needed fiber (wool, cotton, hemp, flax) and food, (grains, vegetables, fruits, milk, cheese, butter, animal protein), was the dream of most immigrants who risked everything to cross a vast ocean in ships that by today’s standards were small, suffocating and rank.
The original iteration of the American Dream is again germinating in the cultural soil of small towns, homesteads, family ranches and farms, and even some urban neighborhoods throughout the country. We are entering a new era of self-sufficiency, inspired in part by the collective feeling that we have been betrayed by a food system that offers big taste, big calories, big chemicals, and small nutrition, and by a medical industry that deems human health and happiness as expendable because the “progressive elite” as it turns out, are psychopaths who believe humans are a parasitic race that must be managed like dumb animals.
Humans–especially those of us living in the United States where private property is valued–are rebelling at a gut level. As once-dormant survival instincts kick in, more and more families, young couples and retired boomers are fleeing cities, buying up plots of land–large and small–and disconnecting from a toxic and callous culture, and reconnecting with the land, and our glorious American legacy of farming.
This interview with Shanon Brooks, Founder and President of the Center for American Legacy Studies, and podcaster Daryl Fielding of The Triumph podcast, is a fascinating look into the “New Economy” of self-sufficient, debt-free rural family living.
