The farm and the family comprised a remarkably self contained world, in the way i imagined all american farm life once did. The agrarian self sufficiency that thomas jefferson celebrated used to be a matter of course and a product of necessity. Nowadays, that sort of independence constitutes way of life both deliberate and hard won, an achievement. There's a lot of farmers out there fit onthat didn't own people, know, and then sexually assault those people. But, i mean, pick a different white dude.