The Great and Most Almighty Joel Salatin

At last it has happened. The arrival of the legendary JOEL SALATIN has come and gone, just as it was prophesied to be so many eons days ago. What I'm getting at is that while I have nothing whatsoever against Joel Salatin himself, I am downright sick of hearing about him. The obsession Rabun Gap has had with Joel Salatin, Michael Pollan, and The Omnivore's Dilemma is comparable to that of prepubescent girls for vampires, werewolves, and the Twilight Series. Of course, unlike Twilight, The Omnivore's Dilemma can be read by people whose IQ is greater than their shoe size, but I digress. What I'm supposed to be addressing here is what I thought about Salatin's visit itself, not the events surrounding it.
I was looking forward to hear Salatin speak. Besides all the buzz about him at school, seeing him in Food Inc. actually got me interested. I walked into academic convocation fully prepared to hear about the latest sustainable farming techniques and other such agrarian subjects. However, that was not at all what I listened to. Rather than discussing farming, agriculture, or even the environment, Salatin spent the entire giving us a 10-point lecture on work ethic. The only part of his speech that was even remotely related to farming was his recurrent use of a garden as a metaphor for one's system of personal principles.
Not that I didn't enjoy Salatin's speech. It certainly contained good advice and was very well delivered. It just wasn't what I was expecting. At all. But on the bright side, at least now I don't have to hear about corn every waking moment of every single day of my life.

--Wald der Bestürzt