You made the claim that I'm brainwashed because I have a lawn. I asked you to explain further. I'm not being cryptic. I don't know how maintaining your property, managing your zen, is somehow being brainwashed and the only conclusion I draw is that you have to put people with nice lawns down because yours is ugly or you don't have one. It sounds like you're coping with that fact. But if you can explain your position instead of being cryptic, I might would help.
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Finally, a response that sounds human! Thank you! You asked me to explain, but did not answer my question by clarifying your first reaponse, so it seemed like you were just wasting time. Now that you've explained what you meant by "cope", there is something to discuss.
The reason for my first post is that lawns have very high liability for minmal reward. The typical western culture lawn of today came from suburban planning. Each person had a house, but are packed in tight. As a marketing ploy, the original suburban developments used lawns to mimic French aristocrats that used large lawns as a defense against invading troops (or citizens). This was to give the human sardine a feeling of false regality after their purchase.
The current benefits that people ascribe to lawns are that they are comfortable to walk on, even if most people don't. However, the amount of maintenance, fertilizers, abatement sprays, and water needed is huge compared to ground covers, or moss; which give the same results without the same constraint on funds or time.
Using the same space for growing medicine or food uses less resources, and yields something of value (and you can still zen out). You could have an area that's pleasant to walk on, provides a tangible value, and with more time and money than what a lawn will allow.
So no, I'm not jealous of lawns. They started as a way to sell houses, and the risk-to-reward ratio is horrible compared to food, medicine, or moss.
Oh here's your position. Sorry. It's a reasonable one but maintenance is maintenance. A healthy ecosystem can be attained with monocrop lawns. Regardless, healthy ecosystems should maintain themselves but only after they've been made healthy by human beings in places where humans largely live. A neighborhood is not a forest and without human intervention, will just turn to a desert of bad bugs and invasive species displacing native ones.
Strawman again. I never argued in favor of an unmaintained yard.
Sure, I grant you that. But you did argue monocrops are inherently bad and that's what I disagree with
Where did I argue that?
I would normally consider a "lawn" to be a monocrop of grass.
And...?
You said people with lawns are brainwashed. I interpreted that as "lawns bad". Sorry if I came of brash. I put a lot of hard work into maintaining my lawn. Not just for me and my family, but for the health of the soil, which in turn is for the health of the microbiology of the lawn, making for a lovely environment my native species can enjoy. We have the same goals. Put the argument in a bubble and blow it away. We love nature 🫂