For example: I don't *think* anyone's yet made anything of the observation that people who go to University generally tend to move out of their home area to do so
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and that transition ALONE immediately sets up a dichotomy between local / transregional, home community / intellectual community, familial values / abstract values, and so on
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it's very common for Remainers to pour scorn on Leavers for treating the whole thing like a football match but this overlooks the screamingly obvious point that football matches at their most basic level were about *sticking up for the representatives of your own home region*
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So there are narratives at play here that simply can't be dismissed with condemnations like 'thick' & which require a bit more conscious admittance of bias; I well remember how we were encouraged to think of those who left school at 16 as cloddish but necessary proppers-up
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... of the 'higher' ranks of society, and how there was real scorn for those who were just going to stay living in the same place and work for a living rather than heading to some metropolis to get a Proper Education
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As for the insistence that Leavers must be 'thick' because we so often see clips of them struggling to articulate their reasons for voting Leave: firstly, those clips are popular largely because we like to see people we disapprove of looking stupid...
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... but secondly, there's a principle that the simpler something is, the harder it is to describe it. 'Simplicity is harder than complexity'.
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For example, if you ask someone 'explain in clear and technical terms why you love your mum' you probably wouldn't get very far. But that wouldn't make the person you were talking to an inarticulate dimwit. Basic is not the same as stupid.
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& the very incommunicability (in rational, technical terms) of these concepts is why we come up with other ways to communicate them, such as flags, colours, symbols and music - binding people together in profound visceral ways that aren't readily susceptible to verbal description
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Flags, colours, symbols & music all being common to both Brexit celebrations and football, of course - and these tend to be the exact reasons why Remainers look down on Leavers as an unthinking, emotional, tribal bunch
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So when Leavers tell us that we Remainers just don't get it, it might be worthwhile having a think about the ways in which they are right instead of taking refuge in the comforting belief that they are 'thick'.
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