{"id":6922,"date":"2025-05-09T20:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/i-hate-my-paper-skin\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:28:21","slug":"i-hate-my-paper-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/i-hate-my-paper-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate my paper skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The skin on my hands is so thin. It gets dry really fast, and it’s so thin that I just touch a piece of cardboard and the next thing I know there’s blood running out all over the place. Ridiculous.<\/p>\n

I didn’t even realize the bottom of the steamer basket was sharp until I was washing it and boom! My thumb is sliced from one side to the other. I barely even touched the metal! If I’d used even a little bit of effort or moved my thumb on it, it likely could have cut me to the bone.<\/p>\n

It makes me think of all those people that firmly believe they would live like kings after they help end the world. And it’s just like, "Nah. You’re gonna die from tetanus, Terry Tenderfoot."<\/p>\n

For reals: The idea of society collapsing and being able to go out and claim a big chunk of land and start farming and instantly produce enough food to feed a whole extended family… That’s Little House on the Prairie-syndrome, and it’s dumb as shit.<\/p>\n

Because Little House on the Prairie is a bunch of lies written by someone that wanted to coat all the terrible memories with nostalgia and let people that have never experienced any kind of hardship think that "the American spirit!" is so strong it can overcome everything and with a little effort a family can survive anything and thrive in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n

When it turns out that Pa from Little House on the Prairie worked for the railroad, and that’s how he and his family didn’t die from his crazy desire to be an old-timey version of a Sovereign Citizen. He was a libertarian before libertarians were a thing.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I guess there was this whole thing where Pa was well-known for habitually robbing the kitchen gardens and crops of his neighbors. Resulting in a bunch of his neighbors nearly starving to death. Which is, at it’s base, a familiar representation of the American spirit.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I would love for someone to make a REAL movie about the Little House on the Prairie books. Not the rose-colored vision we’ve all been fed. But the cold hard truth, no matter how cruel and disheartening it seems to be.<\/p>\n

I want the REAL American stories. Not the propaganda we all grew up with.<\/p>\n

~Harper Kingsley<\/p>\n

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The skin on my hands is so thin. It gets dry really fast, and it’s so thin that I just touch a piece of cardboard and the next thing I know there’s blood running out all over the place. Ridiculous. 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