I just took a 'Music Break' > < I dug out Lynyrd Skynrd's "Gold and Platinum" one of the GREATEST Double-Disc Sets of ALL TIME. I loaded "Simple Man", the 5th Tract on DISC TWO. Just so you know,, "Sweet Home Alabama" is Tract 7 on DISC ONE.
When mite-ee Joe Biden defended his State University Education as being just as "Viable" as the Hoity of Toity Ivy League's, my Mind and Heart damn-near rup tured. My University Education was State of Connecticut Provided. Did I consider it EQUAL to that of Brown or Yale ? The Deal with Ivy League you get FULL PROFESSORS in FRESHMAN Classes, whereas at UConn, we got Grad Students and the Like. Then there's THE STUDENTS ARE DIFFERENT. It's a whole Different Universe.
Simplicity as VIRTUE is Civilization-al HALLMARK of the South. MOST of Us are excruciatingly aware that to extol a Simple Life in the North MAY reflect a Submission to prevailing Economic Causation. The North VALUES Civilization-al SOPHISTICATION which was BEAUTIFULLY Characterized by Witherspoon in "Sweet...Alabama".
The Antebellum South was itself Characterized by the Production of RAW [Simple] Goods which were shipped or transported to the NORTH where they were 'Refined' by a technologically SUPERIOR Industrial Sophistication. South meant Simple -- North meant Sophisticated. Simple = Inferior >> Sophisticated = Superior.
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