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.
Posted on 03/17/2017 9:14:17 PM PDT by DeweyCA
(Skip) I work at Stanford University but live on a farm between Fresno and Visalia. What one place values does not necessarily mean much in the other.
Writing an essay no more impresses my rural neighbors than knowing how to drive a tractor or use a chainsaw is of interest to my Palo Alto colleagues. Rural people who mine, log, farm and build hold a tragic view that they are always but a day away from nature’s revenge — drought, flood or storm — and that the human experience is always a war of sorts.
In part, the rural backlash was fueled by a sense that half the country — the quieter and more hidden half — did not like the cultural and economic trajectories on which the cities were taking the country. It was not just that they saw a $20 trillion debt, the slowest economic growth since the Hoover administration, a federal takeover of the health care system, offshoring, outsourcing and open borders as part of their plight.
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Urban elites seldom experience the full and often negative consequences of their own ideologies. And identifying people first by race, tribe or gender — by their allegiance to their appearance rather than to the content of their characters — has rarely led anywhere but to tribalism and eventual sectarian violence.
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There was one final goad that explains the startling Electoral College defeat of Clinton. Voters in key swing states got tired of being talked down to — as if their views on illegal immigration, abortion, identity politics, fracking, campus speech codes and the environment were the result of ignorance (or being deplorable and irredeemable) rather than due to honest differences of opinion and quite different life experiences from those of big city-dwellers.
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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.
VDH is a native Californian.
The central valley houses people that actually produce things and work with their hands. The coastal elite only produce regulations and computer code.
Exactly. And those unimpressed with a tractor, chainsaw, or rifle for that matter are always impressed with them when they are bailing their ass out of a bind.
Because conservatives live in the real world, while liberals live in fantasyland. Pretty simple.
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.
Pretty much all of a city-dwellers knowledge base is totally wiped out by flipping a switch and turning off the lights.
They know nothing useful without electricity. What can they do when the power is out? NOTHING but whine, and once their cell phone battery is out of juice they can’t even do that!
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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I just noticed the other day that someone on FR has a tag line that says, “When empires die, they leave great monuments that peasants defecate in”, or something to that effect. How incredibly true.
+2..it is gone.
Cities are human ant farms. Pathologies are to be expected.
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