Hey folks, time for the weekly monthly whenever I can remember check-in. How are we feeling? Read anything good lately? How's the weather?
Been thinking about anarchism as realized in rural areas versus anarchism as realized in urban areas. I've always thought that anarchism is more realistically achievable in the short-term in rural areas - they have a higher degree of independence from authority, and oftentimes there's greater per capita involvement in social structures that could (and sometimes already do) perform most of the work formerly performed by the state.
I'd love to see an anarchist municipality realized, and I'm a shameless :LIB: ertarian municipalism apologist, but I just don't think that it would be as easy to implement the same kind of social structures that exist in rural areas. Is this a bad take? Thoughts?
Edit cause I fucked up the emote oh shit oh fuck
Weather is looking like 20 degrees Farenheit for the next week (at least) in a place where it usually only gets down to 32 degrees. Global climate catastrophe is a fuck.
Spent all day dragging around water buckets, busting out ice, filling poultry shelters with shavings and straw, rearranging dog houses and A-frames to try to block the expected 35 mph winds before the snow starts tonight. Still need to tack up some reclaimed siding onto a chicken shed to blunt the worst of the wind before the sun goes down.
How do you keep your bird fellas warm? The places I've lived where I got to interact with chickens never got cold enough in the winter for chickens to be uncomfortable. Do you like insulate the shelters or something?
Fortunately, all of the birds are fully feathered right now so nothing needs to be insulated/heated.
So all we're looking to do is give them ample places to get out of direct line winds, out of rain/snow, with shavings/straw deep enough on the floor for the ducks/geese to bed down in (the chickens will huddle next to each other on their roosts).