Even as a city dweller I agree with you. Reed does not understand the rural person's ability to live a seemingly self-contradictory life, to "contain multitudes

Even as a city dweller I agree with you. Reed does not understand the rural person's ability to live a seemingly self-contradictory life, to "contain multitudes," an ability born out of necessity as rural dwellers depend on each other individually to an extent that city dwellers do not.