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That's a cute story. However there are vast differences in reality. The fisherman is likely an uncultured bigot and xenophobe with life experiences that reinfor
by sidlls 5y ago
That's a cute story. However there are vast differences in reality. The fisherman is likely an uncultured bigot and xenophobe with life experiences that reinforce this condition, and who will suffer terribly from the ailments of aging that the businessman's wealth can afford respite from. For example.
- genericone 5y agoIt looks like elitism never changes, and rural people will never shake the scorn of city people, internet or no internet. Unless that's sarcasm of course.
- machello13 5y agoI think the scorn goes both ways.
- covidthrow 5y agoPerhaps, but what I've witnessed: (in the broadest strokes of unspecificity) Rural: "I don't like what the city folk are doing. They should change." Urban: "I don't like what the country folks are doing. This is how we should change them."
- genericone 5y agoYou're getting a tug-of-war of downvotes/upvotes, let me see if I can expand too: Rural: "The city-living ways don't work out here so well, but there's too many of you guys for me to even begin to tell you how to act or what to do, so as a compromise just let me be" City: "Rural folk live really unsustainably/unculturably/deplorably but they don't know any better, its up to us to make them understand. Anyway the urban center provides more value than what the countryside provides, we should be dictating the path of progress in this county/state/country/continent. The locus of power has always been around cities though, so that is where elites and elitism will always centralize.
- joejerryronnie 5y agoYou’re assuming the CEO is not an uncultured bigot and xenophobe with life experiences that reinforce this condition.
- sidlls 5y agoHe's almost certainly exposed to more cultures, though you are right: he could be extremely bigoted and xenophobic. It's just less likely, even if marginally.
- betwixthewires 5y ago"The bourgeoisie are probably smarter, better people than the proletariat"
- sidlls 5y agoThis isn’t about bourgeoise vs proletariat. It’s about a completely asinine allegory that elides tons of real world context in order to push the ridiculous narrative that the simple country folk know something the rest don’t.
- betwixthewires 5y agoNo, it's about you calling someone a xenophobic bigot because they're a country bumpkin and assuming someone else is probably not a bigot because they're a city person. Side note, you do know the definitions of the words "xenophobic" and "bigot" are right?
- batch12 5y agoWhile we are making things up, I submit that the fisherman is an extraterrestrial who keeps his space faring ship in the sea. Every day he paddles out to check on his alien family before returning to his social studies back on shore.
- barfingclouds 5y agoYour comment says way more about you than it does about some hypothetical small town fisherman