Obviously there are numerous unanswered questions in this video, from
technical matters about water and sewage to questions about where the food
comes from, why are those logs so neat and tidy? They aren’t growing the
food, making their clothes, disposing of their own waste, so presumably money comes
into it.
Nothing wrong with that, but what’s the deal behind it all, behind the sentimental environmental, good-life aspect? It doesn't lack a certain appeal, but as
so often with presentations of this type, we aren’t given the full story and after even the most cursory analysis the appeal evaporates.
6 comments:
Looks to me like an appealing fantasy that people with complicated lives and stressful jobs and messy children can lose themselves in for a few moments. A bit like the downtrodden underling who likes to watch stuff about brave heroes.
If someone was really living like that, then all those expensive white fabrics and plain walls would be filthy with dirt from outside and ash from the fire.
Apparently it used to cost a great deal of money to keep Ghandi in poverty.
A real country cottage has a muddy dog on the floor, muddy boots in the fireplace. A real wood basket that leaves muck on the carpet and the occupier may well have cow muck on their jumper. C'est n'est pas un gite.
I've held off simple country living for fear of becoming a miserable old gite.
As you say AK to many unanswered questions, money certainly comes into it, and all that silence, except when the chainsaw is going cutting the endless supply of logs they need, of course they may simply purchase them !
Don't buy this one at all, eco poseurs.
The trouble with candles is that too often they set fire to the place.
Sam - it does look like an appealing fantasy, almost as if behind it someone is selling something.
Roger - that's what I thought. We are reasonably neat and tidy, but walking boots and wet coats have to go somewhere. As for ash and soot...
Sackers - maybe we need miserable old gites for artistic inspiration, a new angle on holiday lets.
Wiggia - yes I suspect they did purchase the logs. From an interior designer probably.
Demetrius - and probably no way to call the fire brigade.
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