Here is the thing about living in the country. You need a lot of guys. You need a wood guy, and a plow guy, and if you don't have a big enough truck you're probably going to need a truck guy. I've got a garlic guy and a produce guy and a well guy and a chimney guy.
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The produce comes from a family farm and their primary point person is a lovely woman, sure, but still, I got a guy for that. You gotta get a lotta guys.
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You only gotta get a lotta guys in the city if you're, like, fancy. Then you gotta get a tailor and a cobbler and probably a sommelier too, I'm not exactly clear on how sommeliers work. But in the country, you gotta get a lotta guys no matter how fancy or not fancy you are.
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony Retweeted Erika Chappell 🏳️⚧️ Maker of Plane Game
Ah, this makes sense. In the countryside there are only two places, the gas station (which is also a grocery store and general store) and the cafe (which is also a restaurant and pottery studio), and you gotta run into your guys there.https://twitter.com/open_sketchbook/status/1208840270692933632 …
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony Retweeted Jon Phillips
The next step after gettin all your guys is to BECOME a guy. This is called "being in community."https://twitter.com/jon_jmp3362/status/1208841345206493184 …
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The way to tell if someone has become a guy yet is to size up their eccentricities. Once someone is a "bit of an odd fellow" you can be sure that's a guy, and now you just gotta figure out what kind of guy you're dealing with. Weed guy? Truck guy? Hand-spun, plant-dyed wool guy?
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Everyone should strive toward being a uniquely helpful guy, forming a community-wide matrix of skills and offerings, so that nobody ever has to "make a trip into town" (the failure of the guy state). You gotta look around, see the gaps in available guys, and skill up.
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Then, ideally, you have a robust-enough guy economy that you can guy up for someone in exchange for homemade marmalade or a cord of dry wood, and you can be someone's guy even if they're flat broke. This is called anarcho-communism and it is the best political-economic system.
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My mom lives this reality (rural Maine) and it turns out a lot of guys are real jerks to kindly old foreign ladies. So I have grown to prefer the crushing regulatory might of the state over this particular utopia.
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And fair enough! "How do we make the guys good?" is a core dilemma in both rural and anarchic contexts.
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Curiously enough the worst guy offenders here have not been the surly Trump voting guys, but the local organic commune. That said, thanks for such a succinct and entertaining description of what it's like to live in the country!
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That doesn't surprise me at all, the farmer's market is unfortunately a hotbed for closeted white supremacist theocrats.
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