wacka-chucka

Okay, I want to respond to this person's most recent post, but I'm not a LiveJournal user and do not wish to become one, and I can't find her e-mail address, so I thought I'd give it to y'all because it's been on my mind anyhow.

A quote: "One thing that really makes me uncomfortable is the notion that people who come from a small town are ignorant/uncultured. I mean, first off to be "cultured", in the common North American sense of the word, traditionally means the thoughts and practices of the rich and the white. But besides that, who's to say that small-town people aren't liberal or even radical, or know what's going on in the world? Why is the focus and the favour on the big cities?"

My response: Ugh, I know! I am SO TIRED of hearing about how New York and LA are liberal and the entire rest of the US is conservative! (Wonder to self: hmm - are we equating "cultured" with "liberal"? Now THAT would be interesting, albeit likely oversimplified.) Gosh, since I live in Ohio, I guess I'll go pick up Ann Coulter's great new book and flip on Fox News. Mmm, that O'Reilly fellow sure knows how to show those bleeding-heart liberal guests where to shove it!

And why is bleeding-heart an insult again? Compassion for fellow human beings, what?

AND, (I'm really getting kind of riled up here, sorry) if your philosophy at any point hinges on the assertion that "some people just like to collect garbage and put it in a big truck/clean public restrooms/any other crappy job that I personally would rather kill myself than do," then you are deluding yourself to an appaling extent in order to ignore the painfully obvious problems with consumer capitalism.

Okey dokey then.