{"id":60595,"date":"2016-10-13T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60595"},"modified":"2016-10-13T07:36:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:36:31","slug":"if-they-gave-pulitzers-for-great-writing-about-important-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60595","title":{"rendered":"If They Gave Pulitzers For Great Writing About Important Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a time when “Cracked” magazine was “Mad” magazine’s downmarket, cheap competitor; “Guitar World” to “Guitar Player”, “Hustler” to “Playboy”.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what this online world has wrought – but while Cracked has turned into a hit-generating listicle mill, it has come to feature some excellent writing.<\/p>\n

Now, forget the market talk.<\/p>\n

In fifteen years, I’ve been trying to come up with an article that would explain this nation’s rural\/urban divide – the divide that’s driving the Trump candidacy and the surge of animus behind it – as well as this article<\/a>, by David Wong.<\/p>\n

Just an exerpt, from the exposition:<\/p>\n

If you’d asked me at the time, I’d have said the fear and hatred wasn’t of people with brown skin, but of that specific tribe they have in Chicago — you know, the guys with the weird slang, music and clothes, the dope fiends who murder everyone they see. It was all part of the bizarro nature of the cities, as perceived from afar — a combination of hyper-aggressive savages and frivolous white elites. Their ways are strange<\/i>. And it wasn’t like pop culture was trying to talk me out of it:<\/p>\n

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Ruthless Records<\/span>
\n“… And Into Some Nightmares”<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not just perception, either — the stats back up the fact that these are parallel universes. People living in the countryside are twice as likely to own a gun<\/a> and will probably get married younger<\/a>. People in the urban “blue” areas talk faster<\/a> and walk faster<\/a>. They are more likely to be drug abusers but less likely to be alcoholics<\/a>. The blues are less likely to own land<\/a> and, most importantly, they’re less likely to be Evangelical Christians<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, it goes way way way beyond that. \u00a0 \u00a0This may be the best thing I’ve read on the internet all year<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing. \u00a0Forward it to your friends – especially blue-state fops who really just don’t\u00a0get\u00a0<\/em>why Trump is a thing – and why he may just be the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time when “Cracked” magazine was “Mad” magazine’s downmarket, cheap competitor; “Guitar World” to “Guitar Player”, “Hustler” to “Playboy”. I have no idea what this online world has wrought – but while Cracked has turned into a hit-generating listicle mill, it has come to feature some excellent writing. Now, forget the market talk. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60596,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60595\/revisions\/60596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}