Saturday, December 7, 2019

urban cattle


URBAN CATTLE
What makes the city so attractive to so many people? It isn't just the availability of jobs. People in small towns have connections, built over a lifetime, and while there isn't the same kind of job market as the city they know people who know people who can get them some kind of work. Even if there is a long commute, the low cost of living compared to the urban hive pays for that commute. Even if it is local and part time, they can survive on that, also. If they want to. Something attracts people to the city, besides work.
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I'm not necessarily speaking of those born in the city, who have connections there also. In that case, only knowing the concrete jungle probably means you wouldn't be attracted to real vegetation and wildlife, far out of your comfort zone. You don't hear about all that many folks leaving the city ( not lifelong urban dwellers ) as compared to those attracted to them. Not the job aspect, as much as the lifestyle or cultural difference. They don't like fellow small town folks in their business, gossiping about them. They want a “wordly” education.
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They want excitement. Now, to be clear, I've lived in small towns growing up, mostly outside of that small town in the boonies. I only lived in the bigger cities for about ten years, chasing enough dollars to pay off Bitch From Hell Baby Momma. I'm prejudice against larger cities, seeing only teeming crowds, hostile “OH-pressed minorities”, stink and rudeness. To me, what city folk want is silly, and pointless. But I'm trying to be as neutral as possible here as I strive to understand these people. Me? I've thought the smaller the town, the more secure. Others must chaff under the microscope.
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I can see how some people just want to be left alone. I see friends and surrogate family ( or just family ) providing a safety net for you, in a small town. They might know everything about you, know everything you do, but they also know all that and so can protect you. You are one of them. And the folks they don't know, they all watch very carefully. You are protected by the group, and from those NOT of the group. Yet, some people don't like that. It feels smothering rather than protective.
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And what does the city offer them? The glorious chance to be left the hell alone, without the need to be a hermit. We are social animals. We need a herd, most of us. Some can get that visiting others daily, others want to leave well enough alone with a once a month visit. City folks would not make good hermits. They want MORE solitude, but it isn't from hating and avoiding people. It is under their control, and they can adjust as needed. To them, solitude is needed in hourly rather than weekly amounts.
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We all need both other people and a respite from them. Some people are such extroverts they need people even as they fled from them, but those are some weird bastards. They are deathly afraid of being AWAY from people. How natural is that? But, anyway, the main attraction of the city ( again, culturally and psychologically, leaving the employment question aside ) is that you can still socialize, but without those other people being so far up your ass you can't feel free to be your own person, or do your own thing.
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You feel unjust expectations to perform to other people's standards, in a small town. And sometimes you just hated some people so much that just being in the same town as them gave you anxiety every time you went out ( think, ex-spouses for instance ). What if the cool kids harassed you all through school? Would you want to continue living in a small town with them your whole life? The only gratification to you would be when their beauty faded or their muscles atrophied and they lost what they relied on to be special. But that would be small comfort. Sometimes, people who want to ignore you are the best company.
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To accept the shallow social existence of the city, surrounded by people but always alone, friendships more like acquaintances, you really have to hate small towns. This new reality is better than the old one. Neither was good, this one is just less worse. And I think I would include most suburbs in this analysis, now so crowded that they feel just like a city. Not as bad, obviously. You don't have Tyrone and his disadvantaged youth friends asking for a reparations tax, at gunpoint. The suburbs are even more alienating and lonely than the city, with no social venues.
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But the suburbs are just that much less dangerous to be more attractive than they should be. That is one thing Kunstler doesn't dare touch on. One of the main reasons people move to a home that offers no socialization, no nearby services and requires an unnatural dependence on the automobile is because men don't want their wives to be raped by OtherColors in the city, and their children to be jumped by gangs in the schools. That is all on his beloved Democrat party. Republicans screwed us on Jobs To Latino's ( and overseas Asians ), but Democrats made our country unsafe.
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This is a huge reason for recommending the countryside over the city for a retreat, although that is a subject I'm slowly moving my way forward to. Right now, it is important to understand why so many people WANT, not just need, but desire, to move to and/or stay in the city. Not just jobs, not just the insecurity of moving in this era of high unemployment ( The Donald, who never met a poor person he had a problem lying to to make money, tells you unemployment is 4%. The Shadow Stats guy says 20%. I say 38%, but a lot of those folks are in the black market or on welfare. Splitting the difference with Shadow Dude gives you a higher rate than during the 1930”s Depression ).
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The mental state that rewards remaining urban. I can “prove” to you that I am right, about the imminent danger of the collapse of civilization, but you'll ignore me because every day you are better off than country folk. To be fair, I don't listen to people trying to prove to me how dangerous the countryside is either, as my mind is made up. Logic is about the furthest state from our reality as you can get. No matter how we lie to ourselves, we are emotional beings. We only confirmation bias. The only thing we can do is try to see a little clearer how irrational we are, and try to change that. Don't EVER kid yourself how clear you are seeing reality. NONE of us do. You can only see better how you are not seeing reality.
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Make sense? Probably not. Don't worry, continued tomorrow.
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34 comments:

  1. Media is another reason people go to the cities. They either don't want to be perceived as a hayseed hick a la Green Acres style, or they see the countryside as a danger, as per Deliverance. Either one works for me. Stay there ya bums.

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    1. I think the campaign started by demonizing the South, and just picked up steam later with mass publications/entertainment. Or perhaps it is just historical, everywhere

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    2. Oops.
      I know you wrote:
      "...mass publications/entertainment...", but I saw:
      "...mass publications / ENTRAPMENT...".

      Obviously, another example of that notorious Confirmation Bias.

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    3. Is it confirmation bias if its true? :)

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  2. Bison,

    Ordered both books, and got the free mailing with the coupon code. ($53.42 with tax)

    Thanks for the heads up.

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    1. I think my tax was about half as much as the shipping. Damn greedy bastards. They add on a "fee", because they can't tax postal shipping, so it gets stealth taxed anyway. I would say, "this state is going to the dogs", but so is everywhere else.

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  3. There are many reasons to live in a city. For example, the museums of fine arts and natural history. Country people have Chef Boyardee and city people have Michelin star chefs. Most country people (and I grew up in a small town) have a mentality that's very narrow, so do most city people. The difference is that a big city has so many people that it's much easier to meet and associate with high IQs and highly educated. Do you want to be limited to the farmer's daughter or do you want to meet somebody who knows more about the world than having cow shit on their boots?

    Really, there's too many reasons to compare and contrast. But one of the more important is the superior medical care available (to those smart enough to know how to get it) in the big city compared to begging the local small-town veterinarian to save your ass in an emergency... Living next to a trama level-one world famous hospital has saved two of my family members lives. I could go on, but I think by now you get the picture.

    One last thing: who do think is going to get priority funding and resources as the American Empire slowly declines? Empires collapse from the periphery and Empires funnel money, manpower and resources into major cities while the countryside goes to shit.

    The only reason to not live in a city if you cannot afford to live in a good neighborhood or have reasonable prospects to build a better life. If you're just a poor shit kicker, then better to stay in a small town and kick shit than to have the shit kicked out you in the concrete jungle.

    The real advantage to living in a small town is when the balloon goes up, the grid fails and/or the nukes fly is when reality takes a shit on anybody caught in a big-city death trap..

    You write some good stuff, Bison, and you're different than the other bison bullshit artists out there. Stockpiling food, water, guns, ammunition, medical supplies, warm clothes and all of the other necessities of life is a good SHTF insurance policy everyone should own.

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    1. I like gals with cowcrap on their boots. They know their own crap stinks as bad as their boots.

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    2. Probably the most retarded thing I have read in a month or more. Talk about narrow minded.

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    3. It really comes down to "the people" for me. If the big cities didn't have a very high concentration of 2 legged assholes I might not visiting them more often. But that the enigma isn't it, take away the people and you no longer have a city. Fine. I'll stay out here in the sticks and go to the city now and then and get what I want and leave. I may have cowshit on my boots and I wouldn't want to offend anyone and make em cry.

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    4. Ha! Remember the joke, "this job would be great if it wasn't for the customers"? "This city would be great if it wasn't full of people" :)

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    5. The Los Angeles Basin would be fine, even great, with 100,000 people in it. With millions, it is much worse than "fine" except for folks who make a million bucks a year and have 20M+ in assets.

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    6. And another *plus* for rural folks:
      We have someplace to garden.

      That rarely happens with city-folk.

      And fresh well water or clean clear water from a spring on the property instead of re-cycled chlorinated poison.
      For city-folk, they probably have a law against drinking anything without chemicals in it.

      But the lack of the vibrant diversity reparations set (and flying pyramid space-ships...) counts against us.
      So, there is that.

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    7. Rurals get plenty of chemicals in their water. Fracking and Fuki. It just tastes better :)

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    8. 1:31-I'd have to guess 5-10k is a better number, if you recognize the powered water importation isn't sustainable. Although, point taken

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    9. We can't blame urban dwellers for their ignorance -- they live in a concrete maze. They have no view of an actual landscape, and no, the sidewalk septic system doesn't qualify. But what do they know -- to get an actual LANDscape, they have to get themselves up at least 10 floors in a building, where they're not even NEAR land, much less experiencing any.

      Urban dwellers have no ability to experience nature, at all, and their blindness leads them to believe that being in close proximity to inanimate objects under glass is fulfilling. Yeah, museums: dead life...what better oxymoron. But, oh yes....the city...where they believe that herd management, smog, over-inflated prices, food deserts, surveillance everywhere, and all that crazy 'diversity' they try to push on everyone else is the best.

      I'll take the great chefs in our region over their mosh pits any day too. L'Auberge Provincal or the Inn at Little Washington provides bucolic scenery, fresh air, and excellent dining. Amazing how many travel from the DC swamp to 'get away'. What are they running from if the city is so wonderful???

      Modern Throwback

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    10. Great point on the museums-I hadn't thought of it like that.

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  4. “They don't like fellow small town folks in their business, gossiping about them. They want a “wordly” education.”



    Funny, but whenever this topic seemed to come up in the past, this was the most common response (Usually from lefty types). The more pragmatic response, was “well, there’s just no way to make a living in such areas”. Of course there is, but it’s challenging none the less.

    If you can’t telecommute in some way from the country, then you have no choice but to work hard in the city, save your ass off, and retire early to the country. That would be my advice to any young fellow reading this. Technically, you only need to pay off that rural cabin (In a low tax rate state of course) set up enough food and clothing stores for life (Bison, wheat, beans rice, and thrift store strategy) and be able to make the annual tax payment. Entertainment is books. Any left over can be invested, conservatively (Since I know crap about the stock market). Enough funds invested in a low, but safe, or conservative yield is still good. But the bottom will drop off real soon you say? Well, to be honest, I do not think that the US will “Mad Max crash” in the lifetimes of anyone here. And no, I’m not an Ollie Optimist. So why do I say this? Well, technically the US should have tanked hard, long ago, shortly after screwing over white men in the 1960’s, yet, none of the signs are there. This tells me that the elites have an almost (Note that I said almost) supply of tricks up their sleeves to keep this dog and pony going for some time.

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    1. I'm surprised as hell the collapse has lasted this long myself. But I have Peak Oil as my back-up to assure collapse. Yes, your mileage may vary.

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  5. Back in the 80s and 90s when I was fishing and camping in California, Oregon, Wyoming and Montana, I related to Hank Williams, Jr. "A Country Boy Can Survive." Forgive me, a city boy, for stealing country boy valor by posting the lyrics:

    The preacher man says it's the end of time
    And the Mississippi River, she's a-goin' dry
    The interest is up and the stock market's down
    And you only get mugged if you go downtown
    I live back in the woods you see
    My woman and the kids and the dogs and me
    I got a shotgun a rifle and a four-wheel drive
    And a country boy can survive
    Country folks can survive
    I can plow a field all day long
    I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn (Yeah)
    We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
    Ain't too many things these old boys can't do
    We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
    And a country boy can survive
    Country folks can survive
    Because you can't stomp us out and you can't make us run
    'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns
    We say grace, and we say ma'am
    If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn
    We came from the West Virginia coal mines
    And the Rocky Mountains, and the western skies
    And we can skin a buck, we can run a trout line
    And a country boy can survive
    Country folks can survive
    I had a good friend in New York City
    He never called me by my name, just Hillbilly
    My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
    And his taught him to be a businessman
    He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
    And I'd send him some homemade wine
    But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
    For forty-three dollars my friend lost his life
    I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eyes
    And shoot him with my old forty-five
    'Cause a country boy can survive
    Country folks can survive
    'Cause you can't stomp us out and you can't make us run
    'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns
    We say grace, and we say ma'am
    If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn
    We're from north California and south Alabam'
    And little towns all around this land
    And we can skin a buck, we can run a troutline
    And a country boy can survive
    Country folks can survive
    A country boy can survive
    Country folks can survive

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  6. Since I was old enough to remember I have had a strong distaste for people . One out of a thousand you can trust and learn to love . Thomas Jefferson was noted to ride his horse 14 miles each way to DC when he was president . He stated the larger the city the more depraved and deranged was the populace of that city . I'm probably a sick bastard but I just can't tolerate a crowd . Remus is right ! Fook the opera and the advanced purveyors of medicine . I'll take my chance on being the grey man in the hills . As for superior cuisine Baby has some big Apple Dumplings in the oven made with just picked Winesaps . City froends and family harvested 12 deer this last week of gun season and my freezer overfloweth !

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    1. I thought people were just normal. Not a LOT, you understand, but always some around. They worked hard making me get to hate them. Or, worse, it wasn't hard at all, just natural

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    2. DAMN WINESAPS best apple ever,haven't had any since the 50s in calif. a dying breed,up here in northern bc about the only apples that grow are only good for the bears.roger the distaste for people.dan

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    3. Thanks for the Winesaps tip, I never heard of them. We likes apples around here and always have some on hand and eat them in various ways. Lately we've been wearing out the Honeycrisp variety but I am always on the lookout for others.

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  7. Cities are some of the loneliest places. Even your next door neighbor receives an occasional 'Good Morning' and that is it.

    Most city dwellers are afraid of the dark. Instead of looking up at the night sky and marveling at the stars which can be seen, they wonder every sound is something creeping up on them to pounce at the nearest opportunity. Until they come to grips with the quiet, visiting the wild will be day time event.

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    1. Of course, being in the jungle, I'd be wondering if every sound is an animal trying to eat or kill me. That's why I don't go in the ocean ( although to be fair, mud sharks are dangerous in cities ). Nature, in the correct spots only.

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    2. What's funny is, my years growing up in Hawaii were apparently good ones for not getting bit by sharks, since they had a shark-fishing program aimed at keeping numbers down. Now more is known about ecology and the sharks along with a lot of other critters are back - like turtles. I think I may have seen a turtle once when I was a kid and it took off in a hurry. Now I guess they're pretty tame - and dying of some kind of disease from tourists' twats, chlamydia or something.

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    3. I don't see what the fuss is about, killing off top predators like sharks, wolves, whatever. Since we also thin their food supply. Same difference in the end, isn't it? Damn tree huggers

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  8. I've done the country thing. Wall to wall meth-heads, religious kooks, and dog-rapers. And a per capita crime rate that would make any ghetto blush. No, thanks.

    The only way to do the country properly would be to join the Amish if they'd have you, or marry into a Hispanic family and live in one of the almost totally Hispanic areas. Because they really will have your back.

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    1. Yes, if you marry into a Hispanic family you'll be continually having to prove you're not the kind of shithead that 99.9% of whites are. These are people who are convinced that by and large whites are not their friends because whites have continually treated them like shit. As I type, Hispanic families are being separated and the kids being literally sold off to probable human traffickers.

      I'm not saying you *must* marry into a Hispanic family, there are still the Amish, backasswards parts of Russia and so on, where you can be white and not live in a social Darwinist cage match.

      If you do, though, a hot tip is to become Catholic. Catholics have actually read what Jesus said and do some of it from time to time, a thing the Protestants will never forgive them for. Among the Russians it's the Russian Orthodox Church and the advice is likewise.

      As far as dog-raping goes, it happens out in the hinterlands and it ain't Jose doing it. It pops up in the news occasionally.

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    2. Not to excuse poor behavior, but to understand it, are these US Mexican families being separated? And Whites selling the kids off? It I read that correctly, isn't this a natural response to a foreign invasion? The US is already 25% Latino, and they keep letting more in. Why is anyone surprised there is violent responses? Again, not trying to side racially, or excuse anyone. But it should be realized this is rather expected consequence.

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    3. To me , if they are 100% Spanish then they are white. If they are Hispanic the browner they are, the more Native American blood runs in their veins. If such is the case, then their people have been here longer than mine. I am the invader in comparison.
      I really don't see the problem. Other than the fact that there are too damn many people already.

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    4. Being racist in America is like being Ron Paul ( against the Federal Reserve ). The ship sailed long ago, and nobody really wants to change it. I'm trying to see it from the low information voters view.

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  9. I don't know if this is spam or not-proceed with caution

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