The Climate of Conceit
Many in the highbrow, ostentatious sections of the larger city think of smaller towns and rural areas as simply flyover states or by-pass areas, or as Katie Couric so arrogantly proclaimed, the lands of the “unwashed masses”. This latter term is defined as the collective group of people who are considered to be uneducated, uninformed, or in some other way unqualified for inclusion in the speaker's elite circles.
The big city is where the Haute bourgeoisie hangs their designer attire – no Costco, Kohls, or Wal-Mart clothes for those with exclusive, discriminatory tastes. This is where many go nightly to Whole Foods to buy organic vegetables, cage-free eggs, range-free chicken, meatless hamburger, and expensive, California Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon. This is also home to the majority of climate change marketers and socialist activists – and why is that?
The reasons are a few and the rationale is quite simple. City dwellers have no or very little self-reliance or tendencies of self-sufficiency. They depend on all levels of government for protection; they depend on infrastructure for order and organization and public transportation. Of course, the upper-crust citizenry exempts themselves from CO2 and drives or uses limousines or, perish the thought, hire an Uber or worse an ordinary yellow cab. They depend on peasant outsiders for sustenance and delivery.
Bicycles are often virtue signaling devices as are tennis rackets protruding out of an unused gym bag. Nordictrack, Bowflex, and Peloton replace fresh air, outdoors and rural nature.
The city is often dirty with the air polluted and turned to brown, the water is overly-purified and bad tasting, and in the inner city, water is often substandard. Streets and sidewalks are crowded, traffic is noisy and city parks are all many see of what they deem to be a natural setting. Playgrounds, parking lots and concrete buildings uplift and elevate heat making temperatures seem much hotter than actual. The television news crews spew out crime each and every day like it’s normal while the rats take over the sewer systems and dumpster bins. These are all expected to be controlled and managed by governments at all levels.
The work in cities is much more finite or limited. Most are constrained to information technology, health, food services, retail, and maintenance. There are no natural resources to extract; there are no true agricultural programs and fishing is a scam on the Internet (phishing). The ratio of psychiatry, psychology, and social services to the general populace is significantly higher in cities.
City residents often live far from the source and pains of their sustenance and have the Michael Bloomberg mentality where one could be taught farming with one simple sentence of instruction. As with Bloomberg, large city dwellers are frequently loud. Unlike those in the smaller towns that do not need to yell at every annoyance, these people scream to be heard and scream louder if opposition nears or is present.
Much of the pompous snobbery sit on their thrones and look down on people who often do an honest day’s work and do not pretend to be any more or any less than they actually are. These are people that do not trust the elaborate words of pretentious intellectuals but rather the hands-on experience of true working people. They understand that individuals are responsible for their actions, while the city left constantly places the blame on society as a whole – thus inventing leverage for their need for wholesale transformation. This is why one sees individual criminals get released while the public is held, hostage.
Not every city person, especially those who grew up in more rural communities and climes, fits into the mold I describe, but so many do – and that is where your left-leaning socialists and climate alarmists hangout while drinking pricey lattes and dwelling within a 'groupthink' environment endeavoring to establish their next protest or obstructionist soirée.
It is in this societal divide that the founding fathers founded the ingenuity of the American Electoral College. At least in this format those in smaller cities and towns and rural areas still have some say and influence in electing lawmakers and affecting rational legislation.
If not for this system of vote tabulation, I would suggest this country would already be in a disastrous climate change economy similar to that thrust upon it by authoritarians enraptured in the power of their overzealous coronavirus regulations.