{"id":1450250,"date":"2022-04-22T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450250"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:48:07","slug":"all-men-should-be-digging-tunnels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-men-should-be-digging-tunnels\/","title":{"rendered":"All Men Should Be Digging Tunnels"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fall-men-should-be-digging-tunnels%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450250&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-2.08.37-PM-1024x609-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ever since humans evolved away from living in caves, mostly for reasons listed in this extremely ribald and also likely problematic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s5hu7o2Q62k\">sketch from Dave Chappelle<\/a>, men have been trying to get back into them. Initially, this took the form of activities like hiking, hunting, fishing, and camping, but in more recent years has progressed to a much more watered-down version of the rustic, minimalist simplicity we once enjoyed to a more comfortable version: the man cave.<\/p>\n<p>The trend started when Richard \u201cAtouk\u201d Starkey realized in 1992 that he could finish out his basement, add a pool table, mini-fridge, a few posters of his favorite sports teams, a few chairs, and a television and call it done. There were no pointless baubles, like pictures of his family, and especially no throw pillows.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, the man cave has itself evolved into fancier and fancier iterations with wet bars and surround sound systems, perhaps even a blanket for taking a nap, but a viral tweet this week alerted us to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwhitaker_\/status\/1516553816715444228\">one pioneer<\/a> who is seeking to take us back to our roots:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>So, I know this is a weird question, but my boyfriend likes to spend a lot of his free time digging a tunnel on some property that he inherited. I haven\u2019t seen the full extent of it, but last I saw it was remarkably deep under the surface. He\u2019s spent roughly a year on it, and it\u2019s evident. The front of the thing is deep, wide, well put together. At the front, which is the only part that I\u2019ve seen, he\u2019s got cement beams, electric lights, even chairs and a small table. I haven\u2019t gone into it, but it looked like the quality severely dropped as the tunnel went further, mostly becoming open dirt with some wood beams holding it up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>First, I have some doubts as there are no pictures of the tunnel. How could one ask a question such as this without some sort of visual proof? As most of the Reddit girlfriend\u2019s questions revolve around safety and logistics, it\u2019s impossible to answer them without at least looking at pictures of her boyfriend\u2019s work, though obviously, it would be better to visit it in person and discuss the project, preferably over a few cold ones, particularly as the electric lights suggest a power source that could also supply a mini-fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Second, regardless of the veracity of the story, while the rest of us were lounging about in our comfy \u201ccaves,\u201d replete with basically every convenience we could ask for, including the freedom of not having to deal with throw pillows, we could have been outside digging actual caves. We\u2019ve gotten soft as a sex.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, there are our own logistical challenges, namely that to do so requires us to have enough land on which to dig a tunnel, though technically it sounds like more of a den since it doesn\u2019t connect to anything. Now is not the time for semantics, though, it\u2019s time to look at this brave individual\u2019s contribution to making men great again.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he\u2019s a member of the laptop class and this is his way to get away from the online noise machine for a bit. Perhaps he works in a trade of some sort and is passionate about his art. The original post on Reddit doesn\u2019t offer any such clues. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, this guy isn\u2019t just <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.substack.com\/p\/touch-grass?s=r\">touching grass<\/a>, he\u2019s plowing right through it, root and all. He\u2019s creating his own space rather than just very lightly decorating a space built by a more enterprising individual. And he\u2019s not limiting it to digging, there are the aforementioned table and chairs. In other words, while we\u2019re falling asleep watching the game, he\u2019s literally fashioning his own space using nothing but his hands and probably some other tools, though I like to imagine he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/getyarn.io\/yarn-clip\/b6c144a0-ba4b-43ac-8d32-23a2d989c0b8\">Clark Griswolding<\/a> the entire thing.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the question isn\u2019t how to get <a href=\"https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/Advice\/comments\/u3qipy\/how_can_i_get_my_boyfriend_to_stop_digging_his\/\">Specialist-Ad4561\u2019s<\/a> boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel, but how to get the rest of us men out there digging our own. Because while we may have abandoned our caves, the instinct to live in them has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OrwellNGoode\/status\/1516711845595389959\/photo\/3\">never abandoned us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you\u2019ll excuse me, my neighbors are having a pool put in, but are experiencing lots of rain delays, which means I have an opportunity to go \u201cborrow\u201d the pool company\u2019s mini-excavator and get some work done before the wife gets home from the office.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Richard Cromwell is a writer and senior contributor at The Federalist. He lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife, three daughters, and two crazy dogs. Co-host of the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeeandcochon.com\/%E2%80%9C\">Coffee &#038; Cochon<\/a>, you can find him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jrichardcromwell%E2%80%9C\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\nand <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcromwell4\">Twitter<\/a>, though you should probably avoid using social media.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since humans evolved away from living in caves, mostly for reasons listed in this extremely ribald and also likely problematic sketch from Dave Chappelle, men have been trying to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":1450356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}