For some people, I guess everything is politics.
It is a new freedom strategy: liberating the human need for shelter from the state and the cronies called financial institutions. Small (or tiny) house pioneer Jay Shafer considers it to be a form of civil disobedience.
But I shouldn’t act so damned superior about it.
The Secret Lair is a small house – 200 square feet is small – and I didn’t build it as any sort of political statement. But as I reflect on it, I suppose the Lair is an inevitable result of a series of maladjusted, antisocial decisions on my part that sort of add up to a political statement. So, yeah.
What I have noticed about Shafer’s thing is that most of his customers believe they are escaping from the woes of property ownership . . . which they manage by finding someplace to “park” their “homes” and hooking up a garden hose and extension cord to somebody else’s utilities. I call that mooching with a camper trailer.