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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

There's a traditionalist/conservative band in Québec that made a very popular song about this about 20 years ago called "Dégénération". The song is pretty good but I always hated it because at some point they whine about some young woman that's always with a different partner and "saves herself" with abortions, saying she secretly dreams of having 14 kids, like her great grandmother. The rest of the lyrics are pretty bang on, but they're really insisting on the traditionalist aspects and it sours the song for me.

But essentially, the first bits are going like this:

Your great-great-grandfather, he cleared the land

Your great-grandfather, he worked the land

And then your grandfather made the land profitable

Then your father, he sold it to become a civil servant

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Fossil fuels enabled mechanization and chemically-assisted abundance. See: Green Revolution. This allowed fewer people to work at supplying our food, and instead of enabling a lovely leisure society we just invented more ways to torment each other.

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