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.