RURALISM

When I interacted with people who'd been in the same rural American town their entire life, it was because I was someone who'd been thrust into that world by outside circumstances. It read to me like the world outside the villager's experience was deemed irrelevant and farcical, despite the global nature of media. The war in the middle-east is reduced to a joke about sand-n*****s. National politics is mostly spoken of as a way to deride the urban 'elite', or anyone urban at all, as being both out of touch and pussified by complacency. As far as they cared, Denver should get an equal vote to Dolores, pop. 959. And why should they care that Denver's sum of human experience is about three thousand times that of their world? It's as alien to them as Calcutta. It's a fascinating way to see the world, to me.