50 years ago, the TV shows on that conflict tended to show how practical and healthy rural values were, compared to the urban lifestyle. That disappeared after the 1960s, when Hollywood decided to produce propaganda instead of entertainment.
Liberal elites may think that they are smart, with their degrees from fancy colleges, but much of the time they don't have much common sense, like the "common folks" have. Thomas Sowell has often written about the foolishness of the "intellectuals" on campus. VDH is saying basically the same thing.
They have at least half a brain?
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Hansen is a scholar of the classics. He knows that the attitudes he describes were the same in ancient Greece , Rome and in the Persian empire. When the urban “elite” attitudes came to dominate in a culture, that culture declined and was ultimately replaced after a prolonged period of chaotic violence. In California the urban “elites” in alliance with foreign migrants from alien cultures have come to dominate at this stage politically. Their neo pagan values and practices, admit it or not, are transforming the culture. Much the same on the East Coast and urban enclaves throughout the country.
The central valley houses people that actually produce things and work with their hands. The coastal elite only produce regulations and computer code.
I’ve never lived in an urban setting but have always wondered on how they manage to maintain ideas so detached from the reality I have known.
I agree with the author on pretty much all points. In the cities a degree has a lot of value. Some people actually believe that earning a degree means an automatic pay raise or is worth more somehow to an employer without actually proving their worth in any other way. Some people are just good at going to school and getting good grades but suck big time when they actually have to produce anything in the real world.
In the rural areas a degree means much less than practical experience and a desire to learn and work hard.
Two very different sets of values and priorities to say the least.
After being rid of city life for almost 17 years now; there’s nothing that could entice me to live in one again knowing that big knot in my gut would return. It took years to untie that knot; no way would I want to tie it again. Money loses much of its value once that priority is made.
When they do realize the consequences of their actions they turn on each other. The man not of the city has rifles and handguns. The handgun is for unexpected violence at close range. The rifle is for expected violence and best used at a couple of hundred yards.
Too late for Calif.
It’s not the place I experienced while living and working there in the early 70’s.
50 years ago, the TV shows on that conflict tended to show how practical and healthy rural values were, compared to the urban lifestyle. That disappeared after the 1960s, when Hollywood decided to produce propaganda instead of entertainment.
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