Garrison Davis

And they do not exist outside of those supply chains.

They are doing this performance of...

of independence because they are so codependent, right?

They exist to generate revenue off affiliate links or however influencers make money, sponsorships.

Yeah, like there's a guy who I remember like a year ago, because I'm like...

I don't know, broken inside.

I got into an argument with someone on x.com.

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.