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Q&@SPELL
WHAT'S TRUE
OF GRAND SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS
IS EQUALLY TRUE AT THE MICRO LEVEL
OF EVERYDAY LIFE?! A young couple building a New Home for themselves
may ask the architect for a Nice Lawn in the front yard... Why a lawn? 'Because
lawns are beautiful,' the couple might explain. But why do they think só? It has a history behind it!
Stone Age hunter-gatherers did not cultivate grass at the entrance to their caves. No green meadow
welcomed the visitors to the Athenian Acropolis, the Roman Capitol, the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem or
the Forbidden City in Beijing. The idea of nurturing a lawn at the entrance to private residences and public
buildings was born in the castles of French & English aristocrats in the late Middle Ages! In the early modern
age this habit struck deep roots, and became the trademark of socalled nobility? Well-kept lawns demanded
land and a lot of work, particularly in the days before lawnmowers and automatic water sprinklers. In exchange,
they produce nothing of value? You can't even graze animals on them, because they would eat & trample the
grass! Poor peasants could not afford wasting precious land or time on lawns. The neat turf at the entrance
to chateaux was accordingly a status symbol nobody could fake. It boldly proclaimed to every passerby:
'I am só rìch & powerful, andI have so many acres & serfs, that I CÀN afford this green extravaganza!'
The bigger and neater the lawn, the more powerful the dynasty?
If you came to visit a duke and saw
that his lawn was in bad shape,
you knew he wàs
in trouble!
OF GRAND SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS
IS EQUALLY TRUE AT THE MICRO LEVEL
OF EVERYDAY LIFE?! A young couple building a New Home for themselves
may ask the architect for a Nice Lawn in the front yard... Why a lawn? 'Because
lawns are beautiful,' the couple might explain. But why do they think só? It has a history behind it!
Stone Age hunter-gatherers did not cultivate grass at the entrance to their caves. No green meadow
welcomed the visitors to the Athenian Acropolis, the Roman Capitol, the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem or
the Forbidden City in Beijing. The idea of nurturing a lawn at the entrance to private residences and public
buildings was born in the castles of French & English aristocrats in the late Middle Ages! In the early modern
age this habit struck deep roots, and became the trademark of socalled nobility? Well-kept lawns demanded
land and a lot of work, particularly in the days before lawnmowers and automatic water sprinklers. In exchange,
they produce nothing of value? You can't even graze animals on them, because they would eat & trample the
grass! Poor peasants could not afford wasting precious land or time on lawns. The neat turf at the entrance
to chateaux was accordingly a status symbol nobody could fake. It boldly proclaimed to every passerby:
'I am só rìch & powerful, andI have so many acres & serfs, that I CÀN afford this green extravaganza!'
The bigger and neater the lawn, the more powerful the dynasty?
If you came to visit a duke and saw
that his lawn was in bad shape,
you knew he wàs
in trouble!
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