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Just heard a report of a lawsuit against a homeowner's association that forbids clotheslines. How did we as a culture reach the point where basic survival mechanisms are banned? Why do the powers that be insist that we should all live as if we had servants to do our real work in invisible ways? Growing our own food, drying our clothes, etc., etc., are all "eyesores." Yards, all of nature, are s...