It’s not manorcore, or estatecore, or plantationcore. It’s cottagecore. These people are dreaming of being cotters, not gentry.
Integral to the cottagecore movement is making handcrafted, small-batch items. Doing your own repairs, mending your own clothing. Like a peasant would do.
Not to serve some lord or lady. It doesn’t need that aspect. It has more to do with the self-reliance and the resilience that comes with it.
That’s why it meshes so well with solarpunk. You think a solarpunk village wouldn’t have cottage industry, or people who can mend their own clothing?
By the way, cottage industry was integral to the satyagraha movement which ultimately pushed Great Britain out of power in India. So trying to equate it with the wealthy side of class conflict and colonialism is a huge mischaracterization.
Why would an oligarch care about mending their own clothes? They can just buy new ones. Cottagecore empowers the poor, and trying to stigmatize it as bourgeois does a disservice to the proletariat.
It sounds like the fantasy of being a cotter without having to serve the manor, rather than the fantasy of being slaver pretending to be a cotter? Peasant life was brutal because any surplus (and then some) was extracted by the ruling leisure class. Without that, a peasant life on fertile ground would have been pretty decent.
It’s not manorcore, or estatecore, or plantationcore. It’s cottagecore. These people are dreaming of being cotters, not gentry.
Integral to the cottagecore movement is making handcrafted, small-batch items. Doing your own repairs, mending your own clothing. Like a peasant would do.
Not to serve some lord or lady. It doesn’t need that aspect. It has more to do with the self-reliance and the resilience that comes with it.
That’s why it meshes so well with solarpunk. You think a solarpunk village wouldn’t have cottage industry, or people who can mend their own clothing?
By the way, cottage industry was integral to the satyagraha movement which ultimately pushed Great Britain out of power in India. So trying to equate it with the wealthy side of class conflict and colonialism is a huge mischaracterization.
Why would an oligarch care about mending their own clothes? They can just buy new ones. Cottagecore empowers the poor, and trying to stigmatize it as bourgeois does a disservice to the proletariat.
It sounds like the fantasy of being a cotter without having to serve the manor, rather than the fantasy of being slaver pretending to be a cotter? Peasant life was brutal because any surplus (and then some) was extracted by the ruling leisure class. Without that, a peasant life on fertile ground would have been pretty decent.
Yeah, pretty much that