Josh Clark

That's the way people think of dandelions in lawns these days, or have since about the 50s, essentially.

That beautiful yellow flower.

Stomp it!

Right.

Dig it up.

But yeah, that's what happened.

And we've gone over this before, but just sort of as a quick overview.

This is the kind of thing that came over from England starting in the 17th century is when British aristocracy really started to get into these perfect sort of croquet playing lawns, I guess is what you would call them.

And then in America, it was post-World War II when suburbanization really took hold.

Lawnmowers really came into their own.

Everyone was like, hey, we've got these great new chemicals that will kill everything and make the grass grow really, really well.

And it's just modern and tidy and good looking.

And that really kind of transformed everything.

The United States, you know, like keep up that lawn, make a perfect green lawn if you want to keep your property value up.

Right.

That's a big one.

And Kyle also dug up another reason, too, that once the Cold War rolled around, conformity was equated with safety.

So if you weren't keeping your lawn trimmed like everybody else.

What's going on with you?

You're making me feel a little bit nervous because you're not conforming.