[UA] 10 Most American Things

[Greg Stolze]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Alec Fleschner wrote:

> I'm going to riff on this a bit as well. One of the most annoying  
> mentalities I've run up against in the Midwest is that there are  
> two kinds of places to live: "the city," which is usually defined  
> as any big metropolitan area, and "the country," which is pretty  
> much anywhere that's not. If you ask the residents of Wisconsin to  
> name the big cities in their state, they'll say Madison and  
> Milwaukee. That's it. Even though many of their cities are 50K+,  
> those people just live in really big towns. "Cities" are places  
> where all those bastard poor people/politicians/stupid people live.

I think part of this is just standard human out-grouping behavior.   
"We, here in the In Group, are with it, pleasant, good folks who know  
what's up.  Them, out there in the Out Group... shit, near as I can  
tell long division stops 'em cold."  So if you live in a city,  
everyone who doesn't is a bumpkin, and if you live in the country,  
everyone who doesn't is a sociopath.

If you live in a town or a suburb, everyone ignores you and you  
return the favor.  It's surprisingly pleasant.

-G.

people don't want to be writers ... they want to be authors, because  
authors don't have holes in their ceilings
-Kathy Ptacek



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