Paris > Red States

Small post here from John @ America blog. He's in Paris right now, and he's been posting observations and some pictures.

I've been to Paris - the history and culture, and shear beauty, was a little overwhelming for a guy like me that grew up in a desert, literally and figuratively.

Red necks like to bash the French, and yes, some French do have that "French" attitude. But, if you grew up in Paris, and came to say, any city in Texas, you'd raise your nose and smirk also. The same could be said for a great number of cities in Europe.

The funny thing is, the red necks that like to bash the French, or other anti-war Europeans, have never actually been outside the United States. That was my point when I asked that person that I see on a regular basis that questions.

me: have you ever been outside the United States?

him: no

me: uh huh

Red staters, basically most all conservatives, speak from ignorance. They have never spent any significant time outside their culturally bankrupt enclaves. They've never spent an entire day in the Louvre (which still isn't enough time to see everything). They wouldn't even want to.

Why?

Because conservatives are the least imaginative people in the United States. They are the least artistic. They create nothing. They would not understand what they are looking at. The red state guy would rather go back home, crack open a Bud, and flip on the NASCAR race.

It's obvious. Why do they call Hollywood "liberal"? Well, it is. That's because bat-shit crazy people are not talented or imaginative enough to create the work that we see on the big screen. The same is true for the actors, and musicians, and song writers, and painters, and sculptors, and poets, and novelists, designers, and decorators, and so on and so forth. Those professions are dominated by liberals.

That's why I said last week that you could take all the "art" created by people that would be defined as "conservative" and flush it down the toilet, and nobody would notice.

I think there may, in fact, be a "conservative" gene. Liberals/progressives tend to have similar traits, just as conservatives do. I don't think it is all about environment.