I literally grew up wearing Birkenstocks, drinking raw milk from a little local farm, and going to weird private schools athat forbade TV and video games, and if I hadn't spent the last 30 years trying to be normal it would have been the perfect preparation to be a lifestyle influencer in 2025 - ThreadSky

niedermeyer.online • 138 days ago

I literally grew up wearing Birkenstocks, drinking raw milk from a little local farm, and going to weird private schools athat forbade TV and video games, and if I hadn't spent the last 30 years trying to be normal it would have been the perfect preparation to be a lifestyle influencer in 2025

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niedermeyer.online•138 days ago

I literally went to a school that had a rule about kids not playing with toys with wheels until first grade, and even in that milieu in the 1990s the antivaxxers and anti-fluoride people were seen as a bit niche. Today those views are espoused by the future Secretary of Health and Human Services.

spamps.bsky.social•138 days ago

Wheels? Were these schools run by the Amish?

niedermeyer.online•138 days ago

Not Amish, but not that far off in the sense that the worldview was definitely forged in reaction to the industrial age and the encroachment of technology. Focus is on developing emotion and curiosity until 7, when abstract intellectual instruction becomes "natural"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education

spamps.bsky.social•138 days ago

Ohhhhh Waldorf ok

niedermeyer.online•138 days ago

I imagine this explains a bit about why I am the way I am, at least to those who are familiar, lol

saddestrobots.bsky.social•138 days ago

no wheels? this is deeply disrespectful to our ancestors

niedermeyer.online•138 days ago

Only until age 7, and practically nobody followed that rule. Even parents like mine who would phone ahead of playdates and make sure that TV and Nintendo were off limits were pretty lax about the no wheels before 7 thing.

saddestrobots.bsky.social•138 days ago

my wife was briefly in "program" quaker education (the offshoot quakers that gave us nixon) and everyone at the school pretended not to own a tv, despite clearly owning and watching tvs

antidr.bsky.social•138 days ago

Ed, neither the insane list lady nor RFK are normies lol. Some anti science beliefs are more common these days than before though (depending on the country) that's right.

mattmiller.bsky.social•138 days ago

…what was the (ostensible) rationale behind the wheels thing?

niedermeyer.online•138 days ago

The (late 19th century) idea was that the encroachment of technology pushes people to develop rational intellectual drives (the head) at the expense of emotional and intuitive development (the heart). The goal was educating a "whole human"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education

moonwick.lasthome.net•138 days ago

Oh man. What were their thoughts on vaccines?

peternimmo.bsky.social•138 days ago

Hopefully you gave up the unpasteurised milk?

niedermeyer.online•138 days ago

yeah, my mom briefly found a little farm where this guy in his 90s sold raw milk from beautiful Guernsey cows direct to a few hippie-adjacent moms... once he passed away, we went back to grocery store milk. I stopped drinking milk around that age anyway.

carlomarzetti.bsky.social•138 days ago

guess just wearing Birkenstocks at the beach dos not count...

torontowill.bsky.social•138 days ago

If it helps with the regret, I don’t think many of these “trad wife” type influencers are men. They’re all smoke shows decked in makeup talking about how they would enslave themselves for a man. It’s theater for horny misogynists.

whetmoser.com•138 days ago

lol similar. i grew up wearing birkenstocks, went to an alternative school with no grades and went to a college on a farm where we had raw milk. i did watch a ton of tv and played a lot of video games, maybe that saved me

niedermeyer.online•138 days ago

my theory is that if you grow up like this, a part of you will always make some effort to try to fit in with normies whereas if you grew up eating McDonalds and watching TV you are desperate to stand out as unique and alternative

botsnack.bsky.social•138 days ago

Might be an interesting guest on https://kitchentablecult.com/?

kaikronfield.bsky.social•138 days ago

as someone who frequented hippy hot springs for years before the pandemic, witnessing the drift towards maga of parts of that crunchy community has been wild. there was always a tenuous grasp of reality with some, and vaccine discourse seems to have tipped many over the edge.

kalindi.bsky.social•137 days ago

Yup, so surreal

privacypirate.bsky.social•138 days ago

I just love the idea of someone running in and slapping a phone out of a man's hand because it's close to his balls.

Also I guess they like skin cancer?

niedermeyer.online•138 days ago

I also had a mental image of a girlfriend diving between his phone and his balls, like a secret service agent taking a bullet for the president

privacypirate.bsky.social•138 days ago

Yes! This exactly. Agent 00

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