Hillbilly Elegy
📖 Read Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
I’ve been wanting to read this one since I first heard about it around the time it was published, so I was glad to see that I could listen to it in ”BookBeat”, the audiobooks subscription service I’m currently using.
The book was very interesting and easy to listen to. I knew very little, if anything, about hillbilly culture before listening to this book. I also feel like I know pretty much nothing about the white American working class coming from the horses mouth, only from people on the right or left not coming from the group in question.
Though I’m not a conservative, the part about how the hillbillies problems go deeper than what social policies can change and that part of the responsibility for the problems, and thereby the solution, lie with the people themselves spoke to me. It seems like Vance is the old school type of conservative or republican, the kind that was more prevalent before the party was hijacked by a buffoon and those power-hungry enough to sell out every single principle they have as long as they feel like they can use the buffoon in question for their own personal gain. The kind that I respect.
Replies and comments
MrHenko
26 juni, 2019 13:59@MrHenko It looks like that didn’t properly link to you, so ping @verso.
MrHenko
26 juni, 2019 14:25@MrHenko I realized that @donmelton is on micro.blog as well, so here’s a ping for you too.
Verso
26 juni, 2019 16:21@MrHenko we are in the process of spinning back up so you’ll have more episodes soon! We did have the reactions up so that should help in the short term (:
MrHenko
26 juni, 2019 22:43@Verso Yes, I listened to the reactions to the last one and it did fill the swearing gap left by not having Lawrence in it. :)
But I need more! So glad to hear that more is on the way.
smokey
27 juni, 2019 09:15@MrHenko FYI, when making an @-mention from an external blog, you have to construct the link yourself (4th bullet). For WordPress blogs, I have written a filter that will automate the link-making.
smokey
4 juli, 2019 08:43@blog
Nice! 👍 // @MrHenko