Posted on 11/04/2004 11:18:32 AM PST by JerseyRepub
The superior, condescending attitude just drips off the page. Even they admit it and they seem to be proud of it. And they wonder why they lost and no one gets them!
An excerpt from the article...
Dr. Joseph, a bearded, broad-shouldered man with silken gray hair, was sharing coffee and cigarettes with his fellow dog walker, Roberta Kimmel Cohn, at an outdoor table outside the hole-in-the-wall Breadsoul Cafe near Lincoln Center. The site was almost a cliché corner of cosmopolitan Manhattan, with a newsstand next door selling French and Italian newspapers and, a bit farther down, the Lincoln Plaza theater showing foreign movies.
"I'm saddened by what I feel is the obtuseness and shortsightedness of a good part of the country - the heartland," Dr. Joseph said. "This kind of redneck, shoot-from-the-hip mentality and a very concrete interpretation of religion is prevalent in Bush country - in the heartland."
"New Yorkers are more sophisticated and at a level of consciousness where we realize we have to think of globalization, of one mankind, that what's going to injure masses of people is not good for us," he said.
His friend, Ms. Cohn, a native of Wisconsin who deals in art, contended that New Yorkers were not as fooled by Mr. Bush's statements as other Americans might be. "New Yorkers are savvy," she said. "We have street smarts. Whereas people in the Midwest are more influenced by what their friends say."
"They're very 1950's," she said of Midwesterners. "When I go back there, I feel I'm in a time warp."
Dr. Joseph acknowledged that such attitudes could feed into the perception that New Yorkers are cultural elitists, but he didn't apologize for it.
"People who are more competitive and proficient at what they do tend to gravitate toward cities," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You have to love the elitism from the overly populated "behavioral sink".....
"Norway rats have been bred in scientific laboratories since the middle nineteenth century. Artificial selection has elicited-partly through unconscious choices by laboratory personnel-a strain of rats that is calmer, tamer, less aggressive, more fertile, and with significantly smaller brains than their wild ancestors. All this is a convenience for those experimenting on rats.
In a now-classic experiment, the psychologist John B. Calhoun let Norway rats reproduce in an enclosure of fixed size until the number of occupants, and therefore the population density, was very high. He made sure, however, to provide everyone with enough to eat. What happened?
As the population increased, a range of unusual behavior was noted. Nursing mothers became somehow distracted, rejecting and abandoning their infants, who would wither away and die. Despite the surplus of ordinary food, the bodies of the newborn would be greedily eaten by passersby. An adult female in heat or estrus would be pursued relentlessly, not by one, but by a pack of males. She had no hope of escape, or even sanctuary. Obstetrical and gynecological disorders proliferated, and many females died giving birth, or from complications soon after. When crowded together, the rats lost their inclination or ability to build nests for themselves and their young; their desultory constructions were amateurish and ineffective.
Among the males Calhoun distinguished four types: the dominant, highly aggressive ones who, although "the most normal," would occasionally go "berserk"; the homosexuals who made sexual advances to adults and juveniles of both sexes (but, significantly, only to non ovulating females): their invitations were generally accepted, or at least tolerated, but they were frequently attacked by the dominant males; a wholly passive population that "moved through the community like somnambulists" with nearly complete social disorientation; and a subgroup Calhoun calls the "probers," uninvolved in the struggle for status but hyperactive, hypersexual, bisexual, and cannibalistic.
from Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"
Ballentine Books 1992
pages 184-185
And who makes all the corn and beans and sugar beets and wheat to FEED those arrogant NYCers?
Do they think they are the only people who make this country hum? I'd like to see the blue-staters survive as their own country and see how they like it.
Good for you!
This is about as arrogant and condescending at it can get.
"A table full of older, very liberal looking (yes you can usually spot them right off)"
Ann Coulter says, "In blue states, the liberal men are usually the ones with beards."
Arrogant bigots.
And very stupid. With attitudes like that, it will be a cold day in hell before the South even looks at a Dem candidate cross-eyed, much less vote for him.
Girlie-slaps. Just as A-Rod.
Girlie-slaps. Just ask A-Rod.
The left, packed into their liberal inner cities full of whores, diseased homosexuals , drug dealers, homelessness, garbage and backed up sewers, air pollution, misery, despair, social parasites begging for a free handout, all think the same way. They think the rest of the country lives and thinks like them, and only they know what's best for the world and how only they can fix it.
In the rest of America (the heart), we have trees and fields. Fresh air, friendly neighbors, and beautiful healthy children. We have open space, churches, animals that run free. We have cleanliness, honor, and patriotism. We have wonder, joy, and peace. We love this country, and are happy in it. We do, through, get tired of having to care for those in the liberal cities. If they were to learn from us, rather than demanding we learn from them, they too could be as joyous and as free as we are.
In a way, there are 2 Americas. Miserable pro-death liberal inner city people , and pro-life beautiful open spaces people.
People have decided which people they'd prefer to be. They've chosen to be the happy people. They've chosen to join us.
"People who are more competitive and proficient at what they do tend to gravitate toward cities,"
And to even further emphasize the delusional nature of these folks: Take a look at that county-by-county map that's floating around.
Appears to me most of NY state went Bush. Only "The City" and immediate vicinity went Kerry.
Gosh, if these people want to meet someone in the "redneck hinterlands"...all they have to do is leave town and drive about an hour in any direction.
"They're very 1950's," she said of Midwesterners. "When I go back there, I feel I'm in a time warp."With apologies to Rocky Horror ...
It's just a jump from the left.
And then a step to the right ...Let's do the Time Warp today!!!
It's more than just self-isolation from contact with the fly-over country Americans, it's an ingrained sense of intellectual superiority over what was once called "the rubes".
Their immediate problem is that the MSM is being replaced by other venues of news communication, and the "left wing viewpoint only" lock has been broken wide open. They haven't realized that to ever win future major elections, they will have to take into account the views of the depised middle Americans - and worst of all, the millions of Evangelical Christians they hate so much.
They can't have the Bolshevik take-over, ala 1918, of their dreams and that's what so many of their hard-core long for.
How very very true. Half the table had them.
Please Please Please don't do us any favors!
I have a friend at work that sounds like those in the article. He bemoaned the "southern rednecks" that were ruining his country. I went over to his desk later saying "come out with your hands up... we have you surrounded" and dropped a color copy of the county-by-county map on his desk.
His reaction was priceless.
Here's a few obtuse, short-sighted comments I heard from my neighbor.
Laffer? Proven right by such other gullible idiots as Kennedy and Reagan. But, the elitists won't be drawn in by the marginal rate versus total revenue argument. Obtuse? I'd say somebody has trouble learning from history, but it ain't me.
Social Security Reform? It's an unfunded liability to the tune of trillions (as Bush says..."that's trillion, with a 'T'"). The teachers unions have voted out governors that "rob" their overfunded pensions to the tune of millions (with an 'M'), but their elitist leaders wouldn't think to point out the deficiencies of the current Social Security system. Who's shortsighted on this issue?
Strict construction versus legislating from the bench. Well, simply put, we've got separate branches of government for a reason.
Gay rights, civil rights, hate crimes, women's rights, etc. Ya got it already...please read the 14th Amendment. We've read it in the heartland.
National security? Well, let's just say that the sue 'em / jail 'em attitude we took after the first WTC bombing in 1993 didn't work out all that well. These people are practicing martyrs here, folks...they laugh at prosecuting attorneys and judges. They want martyrdom...the solution is to bring it to them before they impose it on us. The street smart person would bring a lawyer to a duel...I'd bring a pistol. Who would win?
Oh...and in the midwest...the competitive and proficient leave the cities for the suburbs and rural areas.
The 50's were an idyllic time. I disagree with her premise, but given the choice, I'd take 50's in the heartland over 60's in the city any day.
Finally, just because we don't follow in lockstep with what the so-called intelligentsia and the mainstream media say doesn't make us unintelligent. If anything, it indicates that we are free-thinking, discerning individuals. God help the sheep that follow Dan, Tom, and Peter.
P.S. 99th percentile GMATs across the board. Beat that, doctor.
If I remember correctly, it was elitists, living in cities, who had lost track of religion, morals, and finally family, who led to the destruction of the western Roman Empire.
We hope to not follow in their footsteps.
Time warp? Hell, most residents of Manhattan think anything west of the Delaware Water Gap is Indian country ... they're the ones living in a time warp. They're insular in the extreme.
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