I think cottagecore is a strong reaction to being continually alienated from the products of your labor and vaguely scared about what societal collapse will mean for you wherever you are. It's immensely satisfying to bake bread and grow produce and fix things and make things that you then directly consume, and it's a relief to know that you have those skills and won't be 100% SOL if the world gets measurably worse soon.
I guess the left version of that is communecore, which is just "you and some of your friends all get together to do cottage core in a group"
I think cottagecore is a strong reaction to being continually alienated from the products of your labor and vaguely scared about what societal collapse will mean for you wherever you are. It's immensely satisfying to bake bread and grow produce and fix things and make things that you then directly consume, and it's a relief to know that you have those skills and won't be 100% SOL if the world gets measurably worse soon.
I guess the left version of that is communecore, which is just "you and some of your friends all get together to do cottage core in a group"
My gf's best friends are moving in thinking we're gonna practice cottagecore, but secretly it's communecore preparing for collapse.