Garrison Davis

Oh, no.

Yeah, this guy was like posing as a homesteader.

And like, you know, I grew up on a farm, right?

Like I've spent lots of my life around like domestic animals and around domestic animals.

I know how to fix things.

I know what tools look like when you use them.

And this guy was very clearly just posing a series of photos.

It just really, I don't know why that particularly threw me for a loop, right?

But the idea that this guy is performing independence for a system he himself is reinforcing, it was just such a strange thing to understand.

Yeah, exactly.

A system he's entirely dependent on, like, more so than most of us even, right?

Like, he makes nothing other than photographs that people look at on their phones.

Like, he makes no tangible product.

Like, at least if you're a... Right.

You know, you could be a cabinet maker, right?

Yeah, you install kitchens for rich people, but you know how to make things with your hands.

This guy just gets a saw that looks like it hadn't been used since the Edwardian era and stands around for photos next to a log.

Like...

In the same breath, I guess, that I condemned that, I feel like the way that we deal with the end of this is the same way that we help each other get through the middle of this and the collapse of it, right?

I've seen people do mutual aid