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"I was born in a small town . . ."
Gregg Easterbrook, "Tuesday Morning Quarterback"He's commenting about the TV series Friday Night Lights, but I think the observation also goes a long way toward explaining the disdain of elites toward Sarah Palin. A defect of much American fiction and filmmaking, often produced by people who live in tenured pleasantness in academia or luxury in Los Angeles, is to depict the rustic town as a dreadful place. Small towns are -- what's the word I am looking for -- small! There will always be a lot less happening on the Texas plain than in San Francisco, Manhattan or Cambridge. If people were not willing to live in rural small towns to farm, mine and maintain rail and power lines, luxurious life in Hollywood would pretty quickly fall to pieces. Plus, if you hate small-town life, you can always -- what's the word I am looking for -- leave. Some people live in little or rustic towns because they like them, an idea that almost never appears in American fiction or filmmaking. Posted by: Mike 2008-11-11 |
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