Amazingly, not everybody from a given place subscribes to the worldview predominant in that place. I'm sure there is at least one non-practicing cultural Catholic who identifies as such in Minneapolis, too. Probably more than one.
That's true yes. My point though is that too many act like the non-Minneapolis standard is universal.And they're wrong in that.
I do, but I also think you're still sort of diminishing what these people actually think, although that may be because mainlining so much Japanese anthropological theory over the past few years has prejudiced me against the notion that personal freedom and fulfilling prescribed roles have to be mutually exclusive (although it's certainly obvious that they
can be).
Part of the reason is that type of thinking simply does not make ANY sense to me. AT ALL. I simply can't comprehend it. What the f[inks] does "having some vestige of cultural tradition and history" even mean? Like seriously![/quote]
That actually is something quite unusual about you. Most people actually have a fairly good intuitive understanding of what that means, regardless of their feelings about it. I'd try to explain it to you but I get the feeling that if it were the sort of thing that's possible to explain to someone who doesn't Get It intuitively--and again, please understand that you're really unusual in that, although probably not quite alone--somebody would have succeeded already, since you bring this up a
lot. In all honesty, not understanding what 'having some vestige of cultural tradition and history' means, even as an abstract concept or something that appeals to Other People in Other Places, doesn't make ANY SENSE TO ME AT ALL, either, so I'm at a loss as to how to respond to this except to point out that mocking people for personality traits that you don't understand because you don't understand them is in poor taste.
Okay but they're are also often what give root to a sense of constancy, mental and interpersonal stability, safety, and togetherness of what a lot of people feel is a more natural or organic variety than what 'the scene' is typically able to provide. Constancy, stability, safety, and togetherness appeal to a lot of people. A lot.
Well at least you admit this, and that does sound like a more reasonable attitude, but your complete bafflement at the fact that other people disagree with it is still concerning.
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