Stop Looking Down At People!

I was hoping I would not have to write this piece, but alas here I am. Some months ago, an acquaintance of mine went on a road trip across the nation. He did some sort of coding job, but would drive for hours at a time and hop around from state to state working out of hotels and AIRBNB's. When he began traversing the midwest he made a comment on social media about how essentially it's a whole lot of nothing - endless fields just emanating emptiness. Now I just shrugged it off, I mean maybe he wasn't looking down on the area and rather just commenting on his own observation. He later made some horrific posts aimed at Trump supporters, which I found completely unnecessary and not a great way to win friends and influence people for an aspiring businessman.

Just recently a girl I had went to school with had made the decision to vote by mail because COVID made it too dangerous to vote in person. However, she's currently traversing the Midwest on a massive multi-month ski trip. So by her logic, it's unsafe to show up at the polls, but not an array of ski resorts? She was recently driving through Nebraska and coined it as "middle of nowhere land."

I am tired of bearing witness to the coastal elites I live amongst commenting on how they think the midwest is a whole lot of nothing. Where do you think your crops and oil come from? Well I guess not oil anymore, the Democrats laid off all those people and now we have to ascertain more business from places like Saudi Arabia and the other corrupt Middle Eastern nations. Great job.

My point is short and simple. Do not denigrate another person's life style. You might look at a pile of dirt and think nothing of it, but a farmer might see a means to a prosperous harvest - beauty is relative to the eyes of the beholder. I read a famous saying a long time ago, "we are all mere branches of the same tree." The United States is composed of fifty states all uniquely beautiful and different - show more respect to those who have chosen to live in a manner that doesn't mirror your own!