This isn't really true. Rural Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have had the "reconnect with nature and go off grid" libertarians and racists for decades, if not centuries. There's a reason those sections are deep red on the electoral map. The current fad is being popularized by young queer women, for sure, but it's been a thing racist white flight folks have been doing seemingly forever.
peasants fleeing to the land to escape urban repression has an even older tradition than that, and i think the back to the land movements of a few decades ago are reflection of that
the main thing is that nowadays land is expensive, so people who have a desire for a lot of space to themselves, and the ones that can live that way, are probably going to be more reactionary because of their material conditions. most that i meet though are the hippie type with decent politics
I think people wanting to reconnect with nature has been a thing since at least the Industrial Revolution at least. Like we can say Marie Antoinette, with her fake farm, was kinda cottagecore. In fact her thing of frolicking with sheep and servants dressed up as farmers and then going home to a palace at the end of the day is arguably closer to the current cottagecore trend than whatever libertarians in Vermont are up to.
I find cottagecore interesting because my initial reaction to it was that it's extremely off-putting for the same reasons others have mentioned, but at the same time I can see where the appeal comes from. I don't think it's from the same place as the off-the-grid apocalypse dudes.
This isn't really true. Rural Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have had the "reconnect with nature and go off grid" libertarians and racists for decades, if not centuries. There's a reason those sections are deep red on the electoral map. The current fad is being popularized by young queer women, for sure, but it's been a thing racist white flight folks have been doing seemingly forever.
peasants fleeing to the land to escape urban repression has an even older tradition than that, and i think the back to the land movements of a few decades ago are reflection of that
the main thing is that nowadays land is expensive, so people who have a desire for a lot of space to themselves, and the ones that can live that way, are probably going to be more reactionary because of their material conditions. most that i meet though are the hippie type with decent politics
I think people wanting to reconnect with nature has been a thing since at least the Industrial Revolution at least. Like we can say Marie Antoinette, with her fake farm, was kinda cottagecore. In fact her thing of frolicking with sheep and servants dressed up as farmers and then going home to a palace at the end of the day is arguably closer to the current cottagecore trend than whatever libertarians in Vermont are up to.
I find cottagecore interesting because my initial reaction to it was that it's extremely off-putting for the same reasons others have mentioned, but at the same time I can see where the appeal comes from. I don't think it's from the same place as the off-the-grid apocalypse dudes.