I used to think I had a v normal upbringing in a v normal boring area until I went to uni & realized how weird my experience was to everyone else- could not relate to suburban/urban kids who never ate venison jerky, climbed 50" trees, chopped firewood etc.
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@KANTBOT20K a lot about this- how the average bourgeois theorycel will never understand the teenage bliss of driving aimlessly down backroads, smoking bowls in the woods, & only having one gas station open past 10pm for snacks. They always "did things" for fun.5 replies 7 retweets 62 likesShow this thread -
Where I grew up you had to drive an hour to go to the movie theater. One of my friends lived on 40 acres & didn't have internet (until 2010). I lived on a road that had several farms with cows, horses, etc. Many roads in my town are still not paved. We have one stop light.
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Part of my attraction to russkii lit is that I could identify with someone like Gogol who spent his childhood reading in rural Ukraine before moving to St Petersburg as an adolescent & feeling a sublime horror at the existence of crowds & sheer urban scale.
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I'm very thankful that I grew up in an area where it was taken for granted that many of the colonial-era houses were haunted & "having a fire" constitued a plan. Suburban affluence breeds neurosis & disenchantment with the beautifully simple joys in life.
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I grew up in an area that is not quite suburban but not quite rural either I could do all the rural stuff and all the urban/suburban stuff as well Really didn't feel at home in either
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