274. Agrarian Contrarians



The rural and urban divide has plagued humanity since before the actual great plague. Rural people did atrocities to foreigners, like blaming the Jews for the plague and murdering them. However, even in all their fears of others, they were always pro-monarchy. During the French Revolution, the feudal rural peasants wanted a revolution but also wanted to keep the monarchy. For some reason, being in the countryside has always rhymed with xenophobia and authoritarianist beliefs. 

I know why urban voters are different, they're different because they live alongside minorities and immigrants and other people in a higher density. As I've said before, being around different cultures is a cure for hate.  What I don't understand is what makes rural folk the way they are. Why are they afraid of people they may never meet? Why do they want a strong daddy to tell them what to do? Most rural people I know pride themselves in their know-how and independence... why is that correlated with wanting an alpha male to spank them?

I have never lived in the boonies, I have never wanted to be too far away from noise and chatter and good coffee. I do know many who see the allure and I have no objection to an idyllic lifestyle (perhaps one day I would cherish it). What I really want to know is what makes that life equate the horrors that have been set upon the world in recent times?

Perhaps it's a dom fantasy?







Comments

  1. interesting question, i think it’s because internet and global communication asks that isolated rural people participate in a world outside of them, which they don’t want to do (hence the isolated and idyllic lifestyle) and therefore won’t know how to do. that’s why they want someone they can relate to but who they feel knows what’s going in the world. they need a leader to guide them through the world they don’t understand and rely on them for protection.

    the phobias come from the same reason. being isolated, they don’t know who these other people are or what they stand for. it’s just basic “humans fear what they don’t understand”. unfortunately, the leaders have preyed on their fear and used it to gain power for their own self interests.

    that’s why i usually never blame the individual but see it as more of a systemic problem with a population that’s been abused and misinformed

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