What’s funny is the old idea that book nerds know things but farmers do things is a source of pride for farmers.

The reality is that farmers are just nerds also.

Yet they think of themselves as something else, like mythical strong men beasts who feed the rest of us useless folks.

The real strong men are the very immigrants that do the literal toiling while the farmers are basically like mini CEOs by comparison

Their rejection of the very nerdiness thst gives them their mystique is ironic

They are smart enough to turn land into food

But not smart enough to realize how they actually do it