{"id":16886,"date":"2017-06-21T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16886"},"modified":"2017-06-10T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T00:30:21","slug":"in-these-times-wendell-berry-defends-rural-america-against-an-attack-by-new-york-review-of-books-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/in-these-times-wendell-berry-defends-rural-america-against-an-attack-by-new-york-review-of-books-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"(In These Times) Wendell Berry Defends Rural America Against an Attack by New York Review of Books Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: Not concerned with the book itself, Berry\u2019s critique takes issue with Rich\u2019s parroting of the now ubiquitous mainstream narrative: That the election of Donald Trump was primarily the result of a nostalgic, racist and sexist subculture that resides in a still-reeling-from-the-Civil-War, socially-backward and monochromatic \u201crural America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is provincial, uninformed, and irresponsible. Mr. Rich, who disdains all prejudices except those that are prop<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">er and just, supplies no experience or observation of his own and no factual and statistical proofs&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;The business of America has been largely and without apology the plundering of rural America, from which everything of value\u2014minerals, timber, farm animals, farm crops, and &#8216;labor&#8217;\u2014has been taken at the lowest possible price.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;It is true that racism, sexism, and nostalgia have counted significantly in the history of rural America until this moment. But to attribute the approximate victory of Mr. Trump only to those &#8216;southern&#8217; faults, and to locate them only in rural America, is a driblet of self-righteous ignorance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/rural-america\/entry\/20129\/agriculture-economics-wendell-berry-nathaniel-rich-joan-didion-donald-trump\">Click Here to Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/rural-america\/entry\/20129\/agriculture-economics-wendell-berry-nathaniel-rich-joan-didion-donald-trump\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cowsinfield-e1497141001685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: Not concerned with the book itself, Berry\u2019s critique takes issue with Rich\u2019s parroting of the now ubiquitous mainstream narrative: That the election of Donald Trump was primarily the result of a nostalgic, racist and sexist subculture that resides in a still-reeling-from-the-Civil-War, socially-backward and monochromatic \u201crural America.\u201d &#8220;This is provincial, uninformed, and irresponsible. Mr. Rich, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16887,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions\/16887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}