田舎のコスプレは残念ながらありふれたものだ

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I got to the part of the video where it equated anti-intellectualism with refusal of scientific consensus. And that's because intellectuals, with no idea of how science works, think that scientific consensus is actually a thing.

Or is the theory of relativity anti-intellectual since 100 physicists signed a letter disagreeing with Einstein? The consensus was against him.

Learn how science actually works, then try to talk down to those you feel are "beneath" you.

Waiting for this guy to say “number 15”

ive never been a rural resident but all my extended family is so i grew up knowing what real country is, nowi can smell the fake country on their breath

Hello from Rural (ish) Wisconsin… I appreciate your take on rural people. To be completely fair, after some research – there is an issues with the the small metro area being more than 5,000 and less than 1M. A small metro or micropolitan area of 100,000 and a small metro area of 900,000 are incredibly different.

I would love a video about how value/wealth is created and consumed In the economy,. Based on these categories (urban, exurb and rural) in this video. How does the literature conceptualize “value added”. I Think I would agree about the rural cosplayer tends to consume the most, without adding much value to the system.

So then is value perceived as primarily in the corporate headquarters in the urban center, or in the rural places commodities are grown or extracted.

And in a primarily information economy, particularly, how does value flow? It’s one thing to have the most grain saved up in the city state. It’s another to have the most access to the highest quality data.

I do wonder how many of these people were raised in a more rural community, and left for college and jobs. So the identification is largely based on their childhood experiences. Along the lines of the adage in the South that you are only Southern if you were born there. If you moved to the South at age 5, you are not truly "Southern".

Clean trucks with luxury badges and expensive mods are called pavement princesses. The urbanites that willingly drop money on trucks with all kinds of features just drive the price of them up. Durable, simple, inexpensive working trucks are not made anymore.

Rich people want to cosplay being poor. But even the commodified aesthetic poverty looks rich.

I think you are missing other casual explanations for the rurality – bad health correlation. To give an example, pretend that bad health outcomes are caused by a personality trait (say, neuroticism). It could be that people low in neuroticism are more attracted to large cities, while high neuroticism people tend to stay where they are. Over time, cities will be enriched for low neuroticism people and cause apparent health disparities.

I don't think this is literally true, but I do suspect that something like this explains a lot of the health disparities described in the video, rather than rurality, or even perceived rurality.

In Australia we have "Tradie CosPlay" that drives these sales, there's two parts to this – the "wannabe blue collar" cosplay which are mostly professionals like project management, developers, planners and engineers who don't need a large pickup (or often don't even need a pickup at all) but buy them to associate with the blue collar aesthetic And then there's the "chased up tradie" cosplay that is tradesmen that justify their large utes(pickup truck) purchase by needing such a vehicle for transporting their tools but really it's to demonstrate how much the earn (or like to pretend they earn) – and yet they end up being less efficient – one of my neighbours is a plumber who replaced his commercial van with a Dodge RAM only to find that he then needed to add a trailer to be able to carry the tools and parts that formerly fitted inside his old van – a truck that not only he could not park in his garage, but couldn't even park in his driveway (vehicle too wide to fit between garden/letterbox and the retaining wall (rental so can't just remodel front yard or driveway) so it got parked on the verge blocking traffic flow

Hey Ray, My Name is Nate sherwood I am originally from Vancouver WA. I noticed you had a consulting gig with Vancouver in this video. I rode the C-Tran 5 express to p town daily for school. and if i was at Powell's books cramming or at pine st aka la luna for a show or skating burnside – waterfront love joy etc. and missed the last express C-Tran at 10.45 pm. i rode the tri-met 5 interstate home. shit they ran until 1 am back then. this was from 1993 to 1997. -i went home for a funeral back in 2019. WTF happened? the transit center is gone? the bus system was in shambles and nothing ran as late as it once did? i was sad to say the least. everything moved to east county 205 bridge rather than i-5 bridge. i had the best memories riding the public transit back then. a month long Tri met pass was only 20 bucks. i also skateboarded every place and did not have a drivers license until i was 19 yrs old. when my employer made me get one. i dig ur videos and also i knew a lot of these urban dudes pretending to be Rural folk. – in Vancouver and in Portland i knew a guy who lived off Belmont that had a "red neck racing sticker" in his back windshield and chewed tobacco and graduated from jesuit. that was in the mid 90,s . anyway stoked u showed the CTA B roll in chi. if u ever want to enjoy the best rapid transit ever go to chi. love that city. i am no English lit major i am dyslexia as fuck so sorry for the bad writing. hence why i had to commute to Edison highschool in Beverton daily. bus 5 to the bus 54. #keepupthegreatwork dude u rock.

It's extremely fitting that you used a photo of the worst street in Charlotte, NC for the thumbnail 🤣🤣🤣

7:15 – these areas are also more affordable. I follow a lot of pro-urban channels, and like you, they always seem to miss the fact that living in the core of a large city is extraordinarily expensive. Walkable, public transportation areas are great, but lower income Americans can't afford to live there.

In Vermont we call them flatlanders

you have an interesting rhythm to your every speech

whenever he says Ruka- I hear Terry Pratchett's "Verruca" Gnome

As someone who grew up in rural northern Nevada I'm convinced that people who live east of the Rockies don't know what real rural is.

I'll admit that while I largely agree with what you're diagnosing here, I do find it a bit off-putting when you talk about the wider political landscape. Not to say that the latter doesn't affect the former, but whenever you do talk about Trump voters it does come off as condescending, as if they're simple dupes conned into voting against their interests. This is beyond the scope of the channel, but there are a number of reasons that people might make a well-informed choice to vote for Republicans and for Trump. I don't agree with any of them, and some I'd call reprehensible, but it's not like the neoliberal policies of Democrats the past three or four decades haven't caused these communities direct harm. Ignoring that does feel like you're doing these people a disservice. Obviously, your channel, you do you and I'll still watch because I'm a fan. But I do find some of the material unflattering.

While I'm politically on your side, do you not see how your line of reasoning is basically just an echo of what right-wing conservatives use to justify their own specious arguments? You literally mentioned it in the video — and yet you still cling to the idea that "identitarian social constructs are A-OK when my friends and I do it, but totally invalid when other people do it"!

If we (i.e., the American Left) want to actually work for real, achievable change that will benefit the country as a whole, we need to reject identitarianism and re-embrace class consciousness. Identitarian politics is the cause of our current crisis — NOT the solution!