beware the banjos

BEWARE THE BANJOS

We’ve been on a little bit of a Hollywood kick here lately, even if most of it’s been in the comments section of other articles.  So I thought it would be fun to cover the depiction of rural folks by the urban elites ( well, the 10% straw bosses, anyway ).  It was all about class warfare, up to the current day, but it will have direct effects come the collapse.  The first thing to understand that this cultural conflict has been alive and well prior to the Revolutionary War. 

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Even before the Constitution ( which was, please try not to forget in your jingoistic fever dreams, a coup to take over most of states rights.  The fact that the War Of Northern Bankers And Industrialists Against The South’s Agrarians eliminated entirely those that remained does not negate that point ), not close to all men were equal.  This country has always had different classes neatly divided by an accountants ledger, money making or not, the man.  The only thing accomplished-not to diminish this achievement-was the elimination of class by birth unconditionally.

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What the Civil War did, culturally, was entrench the Industrial economy as the premier, leading, ruling paradigm.  It was a bloody change over from farm to factory as the body of wealth which used to hold power.  Just as when the nation state wrestled control of power and wealth away from the Papists, these things are NEVER peaceful.  Even if the War Of Northern Federalist Domination was about the loss of freedom, of states to manage their own affairs, even the end of the Republic in all but name, the foundational change was economics shifting from agriculture to carbon fuel industrial.

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And since all rulers must manage the culture to both vindicate themselves and win the popular mandate, it was at this point that the already deep divide between the city and country was cemented and fortified.  Remember, this country wasn’t settled by one culture.  There were several dominant, regional ones, and they never saw eye to eye.  The Royalists in the lowlands south who built and defended the slave economy were the Elite of the region.  The poor up in the hills were NOT of their class and didn’t own slaves.  They were happy to stay from being ones themselves as they had in practice in their home countries.

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The middle class and ruling fraction lived in the city prior to both wars, the poor in the marginal farmlands.  It was already a segregated country.  What the Industrialists winning did was strengthen the urban and rural dichotomy.  To the Northern victors, the entire South became a commodity colony and the entire Southern people a serf class.  Even the local village heads beholden to the Yankees for their positions of power were part of the subservient class.  And remains such to this day.

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All the propaganda therein was the new cultural design to strengthen the industrialists legitimacy and excuse the subjugation.  You always vilify those you kill and control ( “how dare those gooks object to our outside influence!  Kill them all and let God sort them out” ).  Even as the North lies prostrate with no economy except bankers shuffling money, it assumes the superior attitude of a mighty conqueror.  The majestic city dweller lording it over his po’ inbred country cousins.  It doesn’t matter if you live in California or Minneapolis, the rurals surrounding you are hayseeds and scumbags.

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Even the celebration of those living the simple life is vilification itself.  Nothing bad has to be said or implied for city folk to understand instinctively the underlying message of Bad Other.  Not Us.  Evil Outsiders.  But of course, most propaganda is NOT subtle or balanced.  One of the most influential and fondly remembered comic strips ever was Lil’ Abner.  Not the flattering portrayal of rurals.  Ever since Prohibition, wild law flaunting city folk in smart clothes were portrayed as those Wild And Crazy Guys, whereas the moonshiner back in the Hollers were just shifty, dirty, inbred weasel looking batcrap crazy.  Never mentioned was that Shine was the only revenue source in the economically devastated South ( even in regions that never formally left the Union ).

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Devastated by design, by colonization.  The South never recovered economically until ninety to a hundred years later when Yankees began moving to the region ( after they had been introduced to the area through serving at military bases.  Then, they promptly intervened in local politics to suit their sensibilities as Conquerors yet once again, riling up the Negroes to no good effect.  While their own colored languished in northern ghettos as factories began to lay off workers ).  But to this day, after all the modernization and after becoming a bedroom community for Yankees, Southerners are still spat upon and vilified, but no where more than in rural areas.

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You think the movie “Deliverance” has lost any of its relevance?  It is still the Bible of how to hate.  The only difference between when the movie was released and now is that anymore, not JUST Southern rurals are despised and hated.  It is ALL rurals in all areas except the Yankee heartland ( My definition of a Yankee is anyone from a state that fought the Confederacy, east of the 100^th meridian.  It isn’t geographically correct, but it is culturally valid ).  Dukes Of Hazard was nominally about Rebel Scum, but to anyone living in the South it was clearly filmed in Southern California.  It was almost vilifying the rural setting rather than the people. 

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It isn’t just Southerners anymore.  Now it is “Fly-over Country”.  Any place not packed arsehole to elbow with  sensitive folk enjoying a cool breeze tinted with auto exhaust cooling the asphalt under their feet.  Metrosexuals isn’t about much more than celebrating urban life at the expense of anyplace nature touches, and county music isn’t as much about politics as the place you hang your hat ( of course, the industry is controlled by urbanite Yankee Scum ).  Yankees never, ever, upon pain of visiting the park, never miss a chance to hate on Southerners, but the hate has extended to all rural areas.

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Even back in the day when movies were supposed to be civilized, Rural Bad was always a message.  Look at “Bambi” or “Sergeant York”.  Once horror became popular, there was “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” ( most culture ignores East and portrays the entire state as West ), and “The Hills Have Eyes” ( now Nevada is just as hated ).  “Friday The 13^th” clearly taught us evil dudes thrived outside street lamp lit areas.  “Cape Fear” even moved down to the formally civilized coastal area, now Redneck Evil Central.

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And that barely scratches the surface.  When Hollywood isn’t being anti-rural they are being anti-everything else except multiculturalism.  Humpers.  And what is going to be the takeaway here, for all those safely living in the city ( cough ) but forced to flee as their infrastructure fractures?  Rural dudes evil, target evil.  Okay To Kill Evil.  It will be like permission from God that the religious types use to justify asshat behavior.  It isn’t just YOU hating and fearing the Urbans.  They feel the same as you.

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