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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2/ So some other person who lives in the same city as you once ran into the guy who played Fonzie 40 years ago. Someone had a funny moment with a "doorman". See? See! It truly is a city like no other, the center of the entire universe! THE ONE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE!!!
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3/ Or: the singer has a pickup truck, and works hard at his job. But he's got a woman who looks good in jeans. And gives him that look in the bar. And likes tequila. Because this is America! There's a flag outside the high school! RURAL LIFE TRULY IS THE ONLY RIGHT WAY TO LIVE!
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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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Replying to @MorlockP
Luckily, people such as you and I know that there is nothing exceptional about us at all.
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Replying to @random_eddie
joke noted and chuckled at but srs tho, the fact that there is no custom designed "you're part of the tribe" anthem JUST FOR US is evidence that we're not even big enough to make faux culture feasible.
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Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie
you know the last psychiatrist, and his/her "if you're watching it, it's for you" ? this is the inverse - if you're not watching it, then "you" is singular, not plural
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There are plenty of anthems (and posts and cartoons and videos) out there to celebrate the awesomeness of our tribe, and every time I run across one I take a couple of steps backwards away from the tribe.
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Replying to @random_eddie
but srs tho (and, yes, I predicted that response), sure, the "DragonCon" people have a tribe with anthems etc. The Marvel fans do. SF conventions. And so forth and so on. But, as you say, those are all cringy and bad and not for us. Therefore it's not our tribe.
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