Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Saint Michael
It doesn't take much to please Southerners. Something about being morons...
I don't think that is fair.
Well, I don't have much sympathy for people who claim to be rednecks with pride. If you have no interest in bettering yourself, I have no interest in accommodating you.
What makes your preferences "better"?
I watch NASCAR (and F1, and CART, and ALMS), and also read Kierkegaard.
I own firearms, and also support and attend the ballet.
I enjoy Hank Williams (and a lot of other country music), and also listen to Wagner.
I liked "Dukes of Hazard", as well as "Amélie".
I love "Muscle Cars", yet own two Porsches and a Volvo.
I go to tractor pulls, and also art museums.
I move in both circles. Of the two, the "rednecks" are far more welcoming and tolerant. As long as I'm not proselytizing they're happy. Meanwhile, the "better" folk are continuously obsessed with how much "better" they are and want nothing more than to spread conformity. They never stop proselytizing. They see themselves as "better" and seek only to bring their own "morals" to (or to have their own morals adopted by) "those poor, uneducated rednecks".
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
It is the "better" people who are the moral busybodies in almost all cases.
ZV