Soo done with the *average* American
It seems to me that we care more about what we *think* the average American is, than what he actually is. Actually, wait a moment - as best as I know, he is actually she (50.7%), which goes to show you - whenever they interview 'Joe six-pack', its bullshit. It should be Jane six-pack (or is that Jane Two Cantaloupe? Which would be Wrong. Ok, Jane six-pack, 'cos she could have a six-pack too? But this is America, the Land Of The Hopelessly Obese, which means it is actually Really Big Jane).
Which brings me, in a roundabout way, back to Kung Fu Monkey and Farms.
We tend to be wizards at mythologizing, and one of our most persistent recent myth is middle america. We probably don't know that it pretty much doesnt exist, except as a subsidiary of Archer Daniel Midlands, but even if we *did*, we'd still pretend that it existed - it helps us rationalize whatever the heck it is that we are trying to rationalize
Which brings me, in a roundabout way, back to Kung Fu Monkey and Farms.
There are four times as many Americans living in urban than rural areas. There are four times as many people sucking back coffee in New York city alone than make a living farming. According to the Burea of Labor, there are just as many people employed in Architecture and Engineering as farming, hell, 3 million people working in Computer and Mathematical jobs. But when one of these "What does America think about culture" pieces comes on, do I ever see a mid-30's software engineer onscreen bitching about having to download BitTorrents of "The IT Crowd"? Fuck and no.
We tend to be wizards at mythologizing, and one of our most persistent recent myth is middle america. We probably don't know that it pretty much doesnt exist, except as a subsidiary of Archer Daniel Midlands, but even if we *did*, we'd still pretend that it existed - it helps us rationalize whatever the heck it is that we are trying to rationalize
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