*Noun: a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of political fantasy.
Of course that's not exactly true.
Magic Ruralism never left.
I drafted and then abandoned a post in April of 2021, working title "Magic Ruralism: Epilogue", but before I wasted that time I should have heeded driftglass circa November, 2020 when I posted "Magic Ruralism (tm) is Forever."
What can I say. I contain multitudes.
For those of us who actually live in Middle America and who have been actively yelling for decades about the monster factory the GOP has been building, watching the single-minded obsession with which The New York Times and The Washington Post have been seeking out lumpen Midwest idiots to plumb their depths has been as ludicrous as it has been toxic. To those of us on the Left who live among the meatheads, it has always been perfectly obvious that, to quote Sherlock Holmes from a different context:
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Magic Ruralism will never have an epilogue because it will never end.
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