you might enjoy this album called “south somewhere else” by the band nana grizol, it touches on a lot of things you talked about here! also the video game night in the woods!!!
Thank you for this video. I had a similar experience last summer when I went on a road trip through rural South Dakota. I listened to the album “Preacher’s Daughter” by Ethel Cain over and over during this trip, and drowned out my frustration with it. I’d highly recommend listening to it, and looking into the story of it. I was outnumbered and quietly disagreed with the potency of the politics while we were staying in the most beautiful cabin in the middle of the Black Hills Forest National Park. I had never seen an environment so beautiful, with free range livestock and roaring rivers, whilst being so frustrated with the fearful and reactionary state of the politics. Your observation about crime rates in the towns you passed through was very fascinating to me, so thank you again for sharing
Thank you so much for watching! And thanks for the recommendation- I like anything that captures the hopes/dreams/ and dark reality of American living! Glad you can relate to the off putting politics in the most beautiful parts of the country 👀 it’s alienating to be outnumbered in how you feel about politics
I’ve lived in west central Georgia my whole life. I completely know what you’re talking about. Even though I was born and raised here, it is so weird to me.
@@alexahrasmr Yes, Evangelicals and southern Baptist everywhere. We are about an hour and a half south of Atlanta...also just east of the Alabama border (takes about 10 minutes to get to AL). Just like you said with you and your girlfriend, my girlfriend and I have to be careful where we stop. Confederate flags are seen quite often and it's sometimes just the vibe we get from places.
@@rachaelk8358oh boy I give my best to you and your gf!! Stay safe over there- I know the feeling! Me and my girlfriend become “friends from college” in certain places 👀
this is such a lovely video with some amazing insights. i absolutely love the way you talk and i can feel the passion in your words :) i’m from wisconsin, like as far north US as it gets, and i recently went to north carolina for the first time. i got very similar feelings on the drive there. like, my family slept in a hotel in west virginia on the drive and it was just so strange to immediately be thrown into this strange and otherworldly energy of a small dying town in the middle of these gorgeous giant appalachian mountains and when we got to north carolina, we had to drive through some really rural areas to get to the islands where we were spending vacation, and it was so strange to see these decaying trailer homes and abandoned businesses and farmers’ markets that are full of guns and confederate flags. and then to get to the islands and see mansions and gay flags and harris and biden signs mixed between these confederate flags and trump billboards. you put my thoughts into words perfectly here.
Thank you so much that means a lot to me! 🥹 And that’s wild to hear about your trip to N Carolina, I really want to head up that way and am so curious to see how the political climate changes on the way up north - that West Virginia hotel experience sounds unique!
Ah rad glad you took me up on the commonplace notebook rec! 🤘🏻 If you wanna roadtrip through the deep South while also continuing your meditation on Southern Gothic themes, I have to be annoying and gently repeat my rec of Flannery O’Connor, esp her short “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Anyway, thanks as always for not being normal! 🖤
Second video I’m mentioning Urbanization Without Cities by Murray Bookchin… the conflict between rural and city and their respective politics! How citizenship doesn’t really exist under what urbanization has become… which leads to such depressing rural decay that we see now. But it’s also kind of promising? Especially from a colonial perspective, land ridding itself of its settlers.
I grew up in Iowa but my dad's family is from Oklahoma. It's a waaaay different vibe down there. The countryside is beautiful, and there are good people there, but I couldn't ever live there. The political atmosphere is wild, and I live in South Dakota now 😂 I once got word for word the classic "yall not from around here?" in Oklahoma when I was wearing a shirt with my undergrad logo on it.
@@dogshite9842 London, my girlfriend and I are moving there for a couple years- never been there and am looking forward to trying English breakfast and seeing some old buildings! 👀
I think Kaczynski's Technological Slavery partly answers your question why some people in small communities can appear to be surprisingly happy. They might feel more in touch with their environment and less externally controlled. Anyways, all of this sounds pretty scary and depressing. Is that why you moved away? Would be understandable.
“Remember to be normal”. I felt that.
@@Kristenaann every day mantra!!!! 🤝🥲
Babe…a new AlexAhr video dropped
@@monicasupple2897 🤩!! This one is dedicated to you and babe 🤝✨
you might enjoy this album called “south somewhere else” by the band nana grizol, it touches on a lot of things you talked about here! also the video game night in the woods!!!
@@TuckerWooley oh YES thank you for these!! You came at the right time with that game especially- I was looking for something to play this weekend ✨💅
@@alexahrasmr good luck and STRAP IN 😭😭😭
Thank you for this video. I had a similar experience last summer when I went on a road trip through rural South Dakota. I listened to the album “Preacher’s Daughter” by Ethel Cain over and over during this trip, and drowned out my frustration with it. I’d highly recommend listening to it, and looking into the story of it. I was outnumbered and quietly disagreed with the potency of the politics while we were staying in the most beautiful cabin in the middle of the Black Hills Forest National Park. I had never seen an environment so beautiful, with free range livestock and roaring rivers, whilst being so frustrated with the fearful and reactionary state of the politics. Your observation about crime rates in the towns you passed through was very fascinating to me, so thank you again for sharing
Thank you so much for watching! And thanks for the recommendation- I like anything that captures the hopes/dreams/ and dark reality of American living! Glad you can relate to the off putting politics in the most beautiful parts of the country 👀 it’s alienating to be outnumbered in how you feel about politics
You are great at articulating your thoughts and observations with such a relaxing voice and vibe. Thank you!
Thank you so much this means a lot to me! 🥲
I’ve lived in west central Georgia my whole life. I completely know what you’re talking about. Even though I was born and raised here, it is so weird to me.
@@rachaelk8358 oh wow that makes sense! I hear it’s mostly evangelicals there- seems like a really interesting place to grow up!
@@alexahrasmr Yes, Evangelicals and southern Baptist everywhere. We are about an hour and a half south of Atlanta...also just east of the Alabama border (takes about 10 minutes to get to AL). Just like you said with you and your girlfriend, my girlfriend and I have to be careful where we stop. Confederate flags are seen quite often and it's sometimes just the vibe we get from places.
@@rachaelk8358oh boy I give my best to you and your gf!! Stay safe over there- I know the feeling! Me and my girlfriend become “friends from college” in certain places 👀
this is such a lovely video with some amazing insights. i absolutely love the way you talk and i can feel the passion in your words :)
i’m from wisconsin, like as far north US as it gets, and i recently went to north carolina for the first time. i got very similar feelings on the drive there. like, my family slept in a hotel in west virginia on the drive and it was just so strange to immediately be thrown into this strange and otherworldly energy of a small dying town in the middle of these gorgeous giant appalachian mountains
and when we got to north carolina, we had to drive through some really rural areas to get to the islands where we were spending vacation, and it was so strange to see these decaying trailer homes and abandoned businesses and farmers’ markets that are full of guns and confederate flags. and then to get to the islands and see mansions and gay flags and harris and biden signs mixed between these confederate flags and trump billboards. you put my thoughts into words perfectly here.
Thank you so much that means a lot to me! 🥹 And that’s wild to hear about your trip to N Carolina, I really want to head up that way and am so curious to see how the political climate changes on the way up north - that West Virginia hotel experience sounds unique!
Gonna echo that Flannery O’Connor rec, she’s an absolute gem
@@peytonboles5595 TWO recommendations is very compelling! I may have to trip to the bookstore today 👀
Ah rad glad you took me up on the commonplace notebook rec! 🤘🏻
If you wanna roadtrip through the deep South while also continuing your meditation on Southern Gothic themes, I have to be annoying and gently repeat my rec of Flannery O’Connor, esp her short “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”
Anyway, thanks as always for not being normal! 🖤
@@r_r_r_r I had a feeling it was you!!! It is definitely helping my brain out 🤝 and you got it! Flannery is coming up! 🥂
@@alexahrasmr Well shoot now I am worried it's not as good as I remember, but it's short anyway lol
Second video I’m mentioning Urbanization Without Cities by Murray Bookchin… the conflict between rural and city and their respective politics! How citizenship doesn’t really exist under what urbanization has become… which leads to such depressing rural decay that we see now. But it’s also kind of promising? Especially from a colonial perspective, land ridding itself of its settlers.
@@ethanm4206 the land ridding itself of settlers is a powerful thought! I’ll definitely give this book a go!
I grew up in Iowa but my dad's family is from Oklahoma. It's a waaaay different vibe down there. The countryside is beautiful, and there are good people there, but I couldn't ever live there. The political atmosphere is wild, and I live in South Dakota now 😂 I once got word for word the classic "yall not from around here?" in Oklahoma when I was wearing a shirt with my undergrad logo on it.
Oh yes some of the most beautiful rural places are so conservative! 👀 also South Dakota is a major bucket list state of mine! Hello from California :)
Interesting video! We definitely have Halloween and autumn in the uk! Whereabouts are you visiting?
@@dogshite9842 London, my girlfriend and I are moving there for a couple years- never been there and am looking forward to trying English breakfast and seeing some old buildings! 👀
I was born catholic too! Agnostic now. But what really gets me is electrons have mass, yet they’re not catholic.
@@chickenmcfuggits7985 ha hopefully having mass helps with their “negativity” 🥁
Απόπτωσις 🥲
@@AlexandrosT1 it IS a real word!!! 😮 I love it 🥀
I think Kaczynski's Technological Slavery partly answers your question why some people in small communities can appear to be surprisingly happy. They might feel more in touch with their environment and less externally controlled.
Anyways, all of this sounds pretty scary and depressing. Is that why you moved away? Would be understandable.
I moved for college but it’s part of the reason I cannot move back- despite what does feel like a healthier relationship to the environment!