This column seems to fill the same space for city dwellers that country songs do for rural folks: recharge their belief that their is something epic and trope-worthy about the repeated banalities of the accidents of their way of life.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1135535892683268096 …
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4/ Andy Rooney tells a story. "Only in America!" The story could have taken place anywhere.
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5/ My thesis is that everyone has crippling doubt about their choices. "Am I an idiot for living in the city? The rent is so high, I'm a nobody lost in a crowd of millions and I'll never be discovered / make it". <Tribal anthem plays> Ah, I'm PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER!
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6/ "Am I left behind by the modern economy? Am I a nobody in the middle of nowhere?" <tribal anthem plays> Ah, the dirt is red, the women wear jeans, there's football on Friday night, I'm part of something bigger!
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