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The Okie
I was born an Okie. Spent my formative years in England. Traveled to and lived in some pretty strange places like the Ozarks, Zimbabwe and Northern California. And I can tell you through experience that Okies are stereotypically regarded as mental morons, ignorant and proud of it.
Hay Seeds!
Survivors of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, only the fear and poverty remain in their minds. And their concerns may be well founded.
However, racism and bigotry still run deep. A fundamental form of ignorance that many Okies transcend but many have never acquired the power of independent free thought. Like the guards and inmates trapped inside a prison they themselves created thru mindless subservience to the Law, God and Country, becoming afraid of anything new and everything different.
Dysfunctional and perhaps a little slow but basically we Okies are good people and like everyone else, doing the best we can with what we have in spite of ourselves and within a really fucked up society.
Hay Seeds!
Survivors of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, only the fear and poverty remain in their minds. And their concerns may be well founded.
However, racism and bigotry still run deep. A fundamental form of ignorance that many Okies transcend but many have never acquired the power of independent free thought. Like the guards and inmates trapped inside a prison they themselves created thru mindless subservience to the Law, God and Country, becoming afraid of anything new and everything different.
Dysfunctional and perhaps a little slow but basically we Okies are good people and like everyone else, doing the best we can with what we have in spite of ourselves and within a really fucked up society.
Published 29th Sep 2018
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29th Sep 2018 9:11pm
"Dysfunctional and perhaps a little slow but basically we Okies are good people and like everyone else, doing the best we can with what we have in spite of ourselves and within a really fucked up society." ...
... the structure of society is so dysfunctional and so inhumane, it's all credit to the human race that so many people manage to function at all.
I'd not heard of "Okies" (as in from Oklahoma) before but now it makes sense of a long-time JJ Cale album I have with the title of "Okie".
Thank you for writing.
Take care, Josh. :))
... the structure of society is so dysfunctional and so inhumane, it's all credit to the human race that so many people manage to function at all.
I'd not heard of "Okies" (as in from Oklahoma) before but now it makes sense of a long-time JJ Cale album I have with the title of "Okie".
Thank you for writing.
Take care, Josh. :))
The best thing about living in the Ozarks in the seventies was the music
Thanks for dropping by and providing some insight.
Thanks for dropping by and providing some insight.
29th Sep 2018 9:19pm
Trouble is that them Okies need more of what they don't have and less of what they've got... they just have not achieved ''balance'' yet. Ely
29th Sep 2018 9:37pm
