Why's the Urban-Rural split so enduring?

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11 Jul 2012, 1:19 am

ruveyn wrote:

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I think it's really simple. People in urban areas get used to living around and working with people of all different types. People in the country get used to living around and working with fewer people, of a much more uniform type. The former therefore don't have a problem with accepting different sorts of people. The latter fear them because they have poor exposure to different sorts, and humans always fear and hate the unknown.

That kind of provincialism would go away as soon as everyone is wired to a common net and spends six hours a did pecking away at a computer or Ipod.

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To a degree, but I think you overestimate. Everyone is just words on a page, online.

Also ... http://www.pcworld.com/article/136441/r ... ialup.html

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11 Jul 2012, 9:45 am

The government needs to provide free air travel to rural folks, in the interest of world peace. The resulting exposure to other cultures would allow us to become more cosmopolitan and accepting in our thinking.

Or maybe I'd just like a free vacation.
Anyway, I'm not sure the government (U.S.) desires such a society. I think they like us better insulated, minimally educated, and irrationally patriotic.

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11 Jul 2012, 10:26 am

ruveyn -- gravity might be used to generate electricity if the proper mechanical device using leverage were developed. Look what Wall Street does with leverage.

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11 Jul 2012, 5:01 pm

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The government needs to provide free air travel to rural folks, in the interest of world peace.

It's not free if someone somewhere has to pay for it.

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The resulting exposure to other cultures would allow us to become more cosmopolitan and accepting in our thinking.

Could be revolted buy other cultures in some cases, too. Besides, we Americans as a whole are probably already too cosmopolitan for our own good as it is.

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Or maybe I'd just like a free vacation.

Who wouldn't but read again what I said about free above.

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Anyway, I'm not sure the government (U.S.) desires such a society.

I really doubt they care, not that I care what the government desires.

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I think they like us better insulated, minimally educated, and irrationally patriotic.

How about usefully educated and at least moderately patriotic?

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11 Jul 2012, 6:42 pm

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I think they like us better insulated, minimally educated, and irrationally patriotic.

How about usefully educated and at least moderately patriotic?

"Useful" to whom? Our masters?

I'm sure that our masters would prefer irrational patriotism. That way, we're much easier to control.

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11 Jul 2012, 7:08 pm

Oldout wrote:

ruveyn -- gravity might be used to generate electricity if the proper mechanical device using leverage were developed. Look what Wall Street does with leverage.

You are making a pun on the word leverage.

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11 Jul 2012, 7:13 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:

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I think they like us better insulated, minimally educated, and irrationally patriotic.

How about usefully educated and at least moderately patriotic?

"Useful" to whom? Our masters?

I'm sure that our masters would prefer irrational patriotism. That way, we're much easier to control.

I wouldn't know about masters since I'm a free man but I'm going to call yours and tell him what you've been up to here.
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11 Jul 2012, 8:52 pm

Raptor wrote:

ArrantPariah wrote:

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I think they like us better insulated, minimally educated, and irrationally patriotic.

How about usefully educated and at least moderately patriotic?

"Useful" to whom? Our masters?

I'm sure that our masters would prefer irrational patriotism. That way, we're much easier to control.

I wouldn't know about masters since I'm a free man but I'm going to call yours and tell him what you've been up to here.
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You're going to tell Jehovah on me?

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11 Jul 2012, 11:14 pm

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It's not free if someone somewhere has to pay for it.

I got a free cheese knife the other day.
Or should I say, I got a knife that someone else paid for but it was given to me without charge. :wink:

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13 Jul 2012, 5:47 pm

It is mostly a legend. Studies of rural-urban differences (like the "hick" stereotype) have not supported significant differences.

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29 Jul 2012, 3:54 am

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It is mostly a legend. Studies of rural-urban differences (like the "hick" stereotype) have not supported significant differences.

Are you seriously telling me that decades of voting patterns are "insignificant"?

And I didn't ask about the "hick" archetype, I asked about the tendency of rural areas (at least in the Western world) to side with politics that have been identified as "right" since the time of the French revolution (which was opposed by poor rural peasants by supported by poor urban san culottes).

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