well the vast majority of compaints to the Stasi were about people doing their laundry on the wrong day. On the other hand East Germany was an actually functional society unlike America
Because it shows that you're an upstanding citizen who cares about presenting themselves well. That's what I always heard from boomers in the suburbs who got furious anytime people allowed weeds to grow longer on their lawn.
why do people want a perfectly trimmed suburban lawn, it looks lifeless and ugly
It fits the ideology and worldview of :grillman:
False sense of control that suburbanites were programed into desiring starting in the 50's
Fairly confident my grandma loses sleep thinking about brown spots and weeds in her lawn.
white spots*
the truth is home owners associations are nazis and will force everyone in a community to do this even if they want gardens instead
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well the vast majority of compaints to the Stasi were about people doing their laundry on the wrong day. On the other hand East Germany was an actually functional society unlike America
Because it shows that you're an upstanding citizen who cares about presenting themselves well. That's what I always heard from boomers in the suburbs who got furious anytime people allowed weeds to grow longer on their lawn.
Weeds are a social construct. Except weed, which is a social lubricant
well yeah a weed is a plant in the wrong place what counts as the wrong place obviously needs to be decided by society
Its what white suburboids look like
It began as conspicuous consumption and now it's considered essential to the maintenance of a higher-class, higher-economic status aesthetic.