[pixl97]

>Someone doesn't spend time in rural areas.

Pretty poor assumption being that I come from a family of midwestern farmers that have been integrating high technology into their operations for decades.

>There's no reliance on "magical someones" thousands of miles away

You just listed out a huge number of things before that where they do have said reliance. Those bobcats/cars/tractors are not made in their neighborhood. Instead there is a vast network that supplies these objects to them at a national and worldwide level. If the fertilizer doesn't show up in spring, yields plummet. If the fuel trucks supplying petro stop farming in the mid-west stops. We aren't running steam engines that can be fed off of locally sourced wood (ok, maybe the Amish still are).

You live in a global economy that farming depends on. This entire rugged individualism works ok with short term problems, and falls apart as long term problems build up.