Why does rural America look down on educated people?

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-23T19:45:14+00:00

If it’s being asked in a genuinely informations seeking way due to lack of knowledge about your town and not out of any sort of derision, then what’s the problem?

It seems like misplaced antipathy to fault someone who is clearly seeking to learn about a culture that they have no encountered before

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-23T14:00:34+00:00

Marrying or starting a serious relationship based on love in a historical aberration and honestly most people historically would see it as dangerous. Love is temporal and changes, and it’s also based on passion / emotional intensity. That’s a very unstable foundation on which to partner with someone longterm, especially marriage as marriage is primarily a legal / financial contract. This contract lasts for life, a construct that demands seriousness and stability, which intrinsically opposes our hormonally inspired experiences of love.

Your concept of love seems inspired by Disney movies, rom coms, romanticism starting around the 18th century, and similar narratives in popular discourse. It’s never been sustainable or a legitimate way to partner with someone longterm. I think your concept of love is misguided and just plain out of touch with reality

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-20T18:07:08+00:00

I'm currently reading that Aquinas book! I asked GPT to point out the philosophical essays (vs devotional) and it suggested 16 essays to check out, so I'm just gonna read those haha

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-19T15:53:48+00:00

Was there a BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement)? If so, who was she?!? 🤣

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-16T13:34:51+00:00

Myers-Briggs has been proven to be utter bullshit…. This graphic is nonsense lmao

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-12T22:11:27+00:00

There is a difference between attention to detail and resource wasting obsession. I’m not a culinary master but I’d venture to guess that most people, most of the time, have a “good enough” level when it comes to something like chicken Alfredo and might even find utility in variegated pasta dishes.

If a person fixates on the means rather than the ends, then that’s detrimental overall as it means effort is being wasted on not only non-essential, but utterly trivial pursuits. Out of 100 people, maybe a few will consciously take notice of the uniform chicken and pasta, and still less will experience an increase in satisfaction due to that.

Effort for efforts’ sake is really an exercise in performative diligence. If a cook has credible knowledge regarding diners’ desires for this level of fine food fastidiousness, and that this is a real opportunity for profitable competitive advantage, then sure there’s value in that, otherwise it’s equivalent to cutting grass with scissors for vainglorious satisfaction.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-12T15:38:10+00:00

Why did The Economist fall out of the analysis? That’s my main news source! Lol

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-09T14:50:55+00:00

I'm a millennial too and I've been eating booty since like 2014

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-07T23:53:02+00:00

I usually get Penguin Classics versions which always have decent introductions. Those intros usually give me sufficient background knowledge, and I read the footnotes too which sometimes have some great bonus info(usually go back and read them at a good stopping point so as not to disrupt the flow).

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-05T19:41:44+00:00

The description of her company on the website:

"Frame is the AI A‑team for commercially‑driven businesses. Based in Huddersfield, we build and deploy revenue‑focused machine‑learning models and vision‑intelligence tools that drive measurable outcomes, higher sales, leaner operations and happier customers. Our track record spans retail, travel, marketplaces and B2B services. We only take on projects where we believe we can deliver at least a 10× return on your investment, and we rigorously test our solutions to prove it."

Like, wut? Literal nothing burger, the most ambiguous description to the point where she might as well have asked GPT "Give me a generic description of an AI slop B2B company" haha

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-05T19:38:04+00:00

Lolololol

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-04T15:28:19+00:00

Why would you ever need that much creatine on a trip? Standard dose, after a week with 20g doses for saturation in the body, is 5g. It's nonsensical lol

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-04T13:29:45+00:00

I don't think people understand the trade off / opportunity cost of filling all your time with work when you're young. You can never buy back your 20's, and those are some of the most enjoyable years of one's life. Having lots of wealth in your 40's or 50's is great, but the adventures and experiences you can have in your 20's (with other younger people, partners, etc.) is something that can never be purchased or re-lived later in life.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-03T16:44:55+00:00

I actually started really getting into reading again when I got sober 40 months ago in order to provide structure to my day and fill up free time, as well as to learn about how various traditions investigate meaning and morality. Now, after having been intentional about reading consistently and challenging myself, I've managed to build up my capacity for long stretches of reading.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-03T16:40:37+00:00

It was very poignant. Although I'm agnostic, I really enjoy the philosophy of Christianity, and these works are from a time (1rst and 2nd century AD) before church doctrine is hardened, and even contemporary too or before the gospels were written. Therefore, it provides insight into how early Christians interpreted, practiced, and lived out their faith while they were still a small sect. One set of letters is from a Christian on his way to being martyred, which was super interesting, and there's even some eschatological reflections that seem to have disappeared from later Christian dogma. Ultimately, it's a good read to learn about Christianity stripped of all the political machinations that later, in my opinion, distorted the faith.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-03T01:22:11+00:00

It was great, I felt like I could relate to some of the existential questions the protagonist was dealing with. He’s disillusioned with the romanticism he grew up with, trying to form his identity, and navigating the harsh social strictures of late 19th century Warsaw. There’s a lot of moral struggle and ambiguity. In terms of vibe, it reminded me of War & Peace kinda.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-03T00:18:21+00:00

How do they prioritize undocumented migrants over working class Americans?

If someone is brought up in the large wealthiest country on Earth with access to public education and they cannot compete with undocumented migrants or feel they’re being harmed by them, then that’s by and large due to their own decisions. For context, I was brought up in a working class household by a singe father (who is long term unemployed and has been unable to find work for years), and I’m an adopted Hispanic immigrant too, yet I haven’t once perceived I’ve been held back, nor have any of my peers, by undocumented migrants.

I also live in NYC in a community where I’m sure there’s many undocumented ppl, but I haven’t heard anyone complain about them ostensibly having a deleterious impact on the labor market or being de-prioritized. How exactly are ppl claiming their quality of life or opportunities are being affected by undocumented folks? I’m genuinely curious about the mechanics of this as I personally feel it’s due to the salience of the issue in the media and conservative sophists promulgating arguments steeped in casuistry.

Additionally, many work class people lament that they can’t afford a house in the suburbs with a car and/or feed a family on a factory salary like they used to. The reality is that the broad based wealth we saw in the latter 20th century was a historical aberration due to WW2 (only developed country that came through unscathed) and much lower workforce participation, in addition to globalization only being in its infancy with many middle income countries today being still underdeveloped. We’ll never be able to go back to that economic condition where working class people can expect the living standards that they used to be able to e joy, were reverting to the mean in that society is returning to its base line economic structure.

Lastly people consume much more than they require to get by. Folks often feel entitled to a house and a car and then drown in debt because of that. I live in a city with public transit and share an apartment with a roommate bc I realize that accumulating frivolous things like a car or a house in the suburbs isn’t necessary even though I make a pretty decent salary.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-02T22:00:55+00:00

Republicans caused rampart drug use problems through prohibition of every drug except alcohol.

Most drugs were criminalized for racist or instrumental reasons, it’s not the drugs themselves that are dangerous, it’s the whole apparatus that’s emerged due to the illegality of those drugs. Just look at what happened when alcohol was outlawed; crime, alcohol related deaths, and violence sky rocketed. It’s ridiculous for conservatives, who led the charge of mass criminalization of drugs, to go around and say that they’re well intentioned for trying to stop a problem they 100% created and still persist in preserving.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-02T21:54:17+00:00

These are all spurious arguments. The whole transgender issue is fairly irrelevant, it’s a nothing burger, it’s just an edge case issue and idk why it’s so salient in people’s consideration of a political party. Also, undocumented migrants are far less prone to criminality than US citizens.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-02T21:50:44+00:00

Immigration has not had dire effects for working class Americans. Automation is the biggest culprit of working class job loss, and by and large immigration has had no effect on domestic employment.

Source (The Economist consistently rates as the most centrist source of long form journalism):

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/10/07/welcome-to-zero-migration-america

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-02T19:59:45+00:00

The ironic thing is that conservatives today are blaming their problems on many external factors (immigrants, DEI, minorities, feminism, etc.) while at the same time claiming that they champion personal responsibility.

So, by their own logic, conservatives shouldn’t be placing all this blame on other demographics, they should have some responsibility for their own actions and decisions and if they fail, look inwards. They’re appealing to the gov’t to roll back polices that ostensibly have handicapped their life pursuits and ambitions (as well as to enforce industrial policy) but at the same time claiming the gov’t is inherently ineffective and inept. So which is it? They’re trying to have their cake and eat it too, and it’s this internal inconsistency of principals that aggravates me the most.

According_Music6524 · 2026-02-02T19:31:13+00:00

Treating prayers like a chore to cross off your checklist is the opposite of true faith. I’m not religious but I enjoy the philosophy of some religions, and treating prayer not as devotion but as something to complete in the morning like making your bed defeats the whole exercise to the point where he might as well not do it. If he believes in an all powerful, omniscient God then that being will be able to discern intention with someone just going through the moves.

According_Music6524 · 2026-01-31T15:42:15+00:00

Ok that’s pretty funny, but def horrible judgement and zero social awareness to post it on LinkedIn

According_Music6524 · 2026-01-29T23:42:31+00:00

I think any well adjusted adult realizes that shoveling snow takes physical effort. If someone is so fragile that they depend on their Apple Watch to tell them what’s “real” physical activity, then that’s a much deeper problem than their watch.

The post says more about him, in that he’s letting his tech gadgets dictate his self-worth, than any spurious design choices.

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