Koo theh jaake: The Agricultural Revolution

One of these guys is you.

In school you learn maybe three things about the Industrial Revolution: Advent of Railroads, Machines, and Cities. I don’t pretend to know much about the history of the industrial revolution. From what I remember, new machines increased agricultural productivity and farmers just did not need as many workers as they once did. Those workers moved towards an urban scene to work in man made factories and were forced into working long hours in unclean conditions. Man lost fresh air.

Where are we today? We’re still working in factories, but now we have to spend money in order to work in one of these factories. We have to get an undergraduate degree just to get our foot in the door; a masters if we plan on getting promoted. The conditions have improved, but the profit scheme is the same. When you start looking for new jobs, the postings asking for “entrepreneurial spirit” and “personal drive” are usually sale schemes that we shy away from. Not this time. This job posting is the start of a revolution. Do you remember the p90X craze..the idea that muscle confusion is the best way to keep your body alert and thus maximizing strength or weight loss? This is kind of like that, except I don’t have any data to support my conclusion.

Cities have become saturated. A place where the newest buildings are condos that no one can afford to live in and/or even build. I have an idea, an Agricultural Revolution. A mass population shift to rural areas to shock the urban job market while also increasing agricultural knowledge. While waiting for the urban job market to feel the effects of loss, there’s an added advantage for new farmers. As a whole, Americans are becoming more wasteful, more dependent on technology, and less active. While adapting to an agricultural setting, you will have to depend on using their own intellect and body to survive. Sustenance farming will teach you the dangers of being wasteful. Milking a cow or slaughtering a lamb will teach you to thank and respect animals for the continuing gift they give us. Rising with a rooster and falling with the sun will teach us just how short our living days are.

So what happens once the urban job market wants you back? Some of you may want to go back, some may not. The beauty of it is that those of you that want to go back..can. Now the jobs that are available are for those that really want to be working in the factory environment. Also, the lessons you learn on the farm can be implemented in the urban landscape, thus leading to a cleaner and less wasteful city. And those of you who don’t want to go back..wont. You will realize that farm living is what you were really destined for, and you will be great at it.

For some of us, its time to move to a simpler time. The farm is waiting.

*if you think you can’t be a farmer..please google image search hipster farmers.