{"id":1857,"date":"2014-11-20T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T19:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2014-11-20T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T19:43:50","slug":"agrarians-are-back-to-save-america-from-consumerism-and-empire-transition-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"Agrarians are back to save America from consumerism and empire \u2014 Transition Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2014\/11\/a-two-century-fight-for-the-small-the-local-and-the-beautiful\/\">Agrarians are back to save America from consumerism and empire \u2014 Transition Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem 0px;\">Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual and cultural movement. Its roots lay within the mythos of the early American Republic, which cast the self-sufficient yeoman farm family as the foundation of ordered liberty. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1785:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; margin: 4rem 4rem 2.4rem 4rem;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem 0px;\">Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty by the most lasting bonds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem 0px;\">Similar early celebrations of Agrarianism came from\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; color: #27a3d1; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"de Crevecoeur\" href=\"https:\/\/historywriterblog.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/11\/american-writers-st-john-de-crevecoeur-long-eighteenth-century-series-trivia\/\">Jean Hector St. John de Crevecoeur<\/a>\u00a0(<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Letters from an American Farme<\/em>r, 1782) and\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.1s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; color: #27a3d1; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"John Taylor of Caroline\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Taylor_of_Caroline\">John Taylor of Caroline<\/a>\u00a0(<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Arator<\/em>, 1813). Such paeans to the largely self-sufficient family farm reflected certain realities of that era. In the fateful year of 1776, about 90 percent of all Americans resided on farms and plantations. Despite the rapid growth of factories and cities in the next century, the number of farms and persons on farms continued to grow, reaching peaks \u2013 respectively \u2013 of 6 million and 31 million in 1917.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;\">&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2014\/11\/a-two-century-fight-for-the-small-the-local-and-the-beautiful\/#sthash.am4iiO4I.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agrarians are back to save America from consumerism and empire \u2014 Transition Voice. Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual and cultural movement. Its roots lay within the mythos of the early American Republic, which cast the self-sufficient yeoman farm family as the foundation of ordered liberty. 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