• phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    More than likely, you would not have been a knight, you would have been a peasant working the fields for your short life before dying of some incurable bacterial infection when you got a cut on some of your farm tools.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      One of these literally shows a dead soldier in a field of flowers so, yeah.

      It’s idle longing. I could give up my career, move to a deeply rural area, and break my back doing menial jobs until I die of health complications at 64. I won’t, but it’s nice to long for the imagined simplicity sometimes y’know?

      See also:

      twitter caption "Why do men keep saying they want to bleed out here what does that mean" over a picture of a desert urban area at night covered in fresh snow

    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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      2 days ago

      I see what you’re saying

      And it’s correct

      But

      A lot of people also long for the relative simplicity and predictability of peasant life.

      What is the entirety of the cottagecore aesthetic if not a longing for that? (well, that and a hint of racism but y’know y’know y’know)