tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104012373258339565.post9192363206590373835..comments2023-10-31T12:10:39.067-04:00Comments on Ladder on Wheels: You've Been on This Shift Too LongMichial Farmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10062071425935524922noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104012373258339565.post-31504397606716165232008-09-30T19:14:00.000-04:002008-09-30T19:14:00.000-04:00Fair enough. I really don't detect the romanticiz...Fair enough. I really don't detect the romanticizing instinct on your part, but I do see the same on the parts of the Agrarians and their Cruncy Con descendants.Nathan P. Gilmourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00731491771737922242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104012373258339565.post-27143850233360506232008-09-29T19:28:00.000-04:002008-09-29T19:28:00.000-04:00I don't really romanticize the Old or New Souths, ...I don't really romanticize the Old or New Souths, although I'd never go so far as to say either of them "stink." History's flesh and blood, and if the Old South wasn't a utopia, it wasn't the worst time in the world either--just as our current time period is neither.<BR/><BR/>For my part, I do not understand the folks who hold onto the Civil War. I understand interest in the Old South, but I have a harder time understanding how someone could have such an intense emotional attachment to an era that her or she never lived in. (That being said, I romanticize the pre-1968 Academy, so go figure.)Michial Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062071425935524922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104012373258339565.post-29256606292066342712008-09-26T10:37:00.000-04:002008-09-26T10:37:00.000-04:00Darius Rucker? Isn't that Hootie?I'll admit that ...Darius Rucker? Isn't that Hootie?<BR/><BR/>I'll admit that most of my familiarity with the Old South is through Faulkner on one hand and Gone with the Wind on the other, but I will say that, as an outsider looking in, I think it stinks. I don't like the way its advocates pretend that race was not a factor there and then, how they lionize hereditary aristocracy and patrician magnanimity, or how they play Harriet Beecher Stowe-caliber emotional strings to try to evoke sympathy for pooah Scahlet.<BR/><BR/>I suppose that's why I've never really latched onto the Crunchy Conservative movement. (Well, it's the stink of the Old South plus the wretched human beings I've known who are also Crunchy Cons.) They hold up this lovely organic version of community life but never get on to mentioning why some people were as ready as hell to get out of it.<BR/><BR/>I'm not saying that Bush-era Athens consumerism is much better, but I suppose I like my utopias Greek more than Dixie.Nathan P. Gilmourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00731491771737922242noreply@blogger.com