the american midwest. people wake up in their ikea beds and immediately slam into their ford trucks and drive 2 hours through featureless cornfields to pretend-work in an office for a company that functionally does nothing. they dissociate until it’s time to get back home and listen to classic rock or top 40 pop for an hour to wind down. dinner is unseasoned roast chicken and weak cold beer made mostly of rice. then they have missionary for 3 minutes with their hetero spouse and reminisce briefly about high school and pass out. anything that forces a deviation from this life-plan is a federal fucking offense and, in the minds of people who have fully surrendered spiritually to the midwestern mindset, heralds instant violent death. they say bulls are baited into a rage by the color red; if you show a midwesterner any color bright enough, they’ll reach for a gun
the thing i am describing is a mix of suburban anomie and tall poppy syndrome, which is prevalent in many rural settler cultures and also scandinavia. it’s not unique to the american midwest, they just have a lot of money there about it
20th August 2023
Reblogged From blondie-b
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