Well put. I just moved from a major city to a much smaller city. Sadly one thing I’ve noticed in more rural America is the sad state of health people are in. The rural diet on average is terrible and the people are drug addicted and overweight. Certainly this exists in the city as well, but seems much more prevalent in more rural places. I love the country as much as I love the city, they are both necessary. The problem I see is the one where rural folks romanticize the country in the way the person you replied to did. And the city people who think they’re all superior in their big city pretensions. All the while they miss the point that the are both part of the same system, they are all the same people… which is why they are all fat.
Yeah I think both groups (Country mice and city mice) have trouble seeing things big picture. And it's such an easy copout to just blame a group you're not part of for problems.
That's human nature though and I know I do it too sometimes.
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