One man's attempt to resist the social pathology of anti-intellectualism, the vapid mindset of the "Cult of Personality," and the scourge of baseless, irrational thought. Failure is highly probable.
Tuesday, August 01, 2023
Trae Crowder Talks About Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” - STA...
I have been back to mostly commenting on my FB wall. No need to repeat all that shit here. But this is fun. This guy managed to find the humor in an otherwise sad, unfortunate story.
Aldean didn't write the shit kicker song in question. But who ever did, wrote what is at minimum shit kicker song. Which does not really highlight what is potentially good about small towns.
Disturbingly humorously, when defending the song, Aldean rattles off all that actual potential good shit about small towns. And that leads to the question. How come the song doesn't really talk about that good shit, but instead seems a justification for mob violence and mob justice, whether racist flavored or not?
And I will quote a line from a song of a much different genre:
Well, the last time I took the Jung-Keirsey Personality Test, the results informed me I was a Counselor Idealist. I normally would say it was my cynicism that led me to Law School. But yes, somewhere in the back of my mind, there still is a battered, hammered, starved, exhausted, nearly-fully defeated Idealist, that hopes for the day when he can regain what strength he formally had, if not thrive.
I am not a "People Person." I am definitely "Wonky."
I despise stupidity and moreso, deliberate ignorance.
I despair the chance that either our Nation or the Whole World will ever get out of the seemingly-suicidal spiral of sinister and senseless suffocation of souls.
I am prone to excessive alliteration and wordiness.
I strive to restrain my baser nature, and give way to the Angels of my Better Nature, but every now and then, the Angels lose the battle.
I truly have no use for phony people, or false heros.
I abstain from what is known as the "Cult of Personality."
I may not be from Missouri, but I believe, seeing is believing.
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