As media and universities became more radical, their disciples moved into rural America through government-mandated institutions like schools and libraries, Progressivism became harder to avoid no matter how far someone moved away from the city. Thus, the "Hicklib" was born.
00:01:19.780The Hicklib is usually a social outcast, a failson who needs a moral explanation for0.98
00:01:25.060why he hates the community he never fit into.0.99
00:01:27.920His resentment searches for a theory that will dignify his rage, and the progressive missionaries installed in his local institutions are happy to provide one.0.70
00:01:38.180Teachers tell the Hicklib his country is evil.0.94
00:01:41.380His family and neighbors are racist, sexist, backwards religious fanatics destroying the lives of minorities who don't even live in the town.0.99
00:01:50.240The white Christian culture that dominates rural America is primitive and responsible for the evils of the world.0.99
00:01:56.240The Hicklib's failures to fit in become proof of moral superiority.1.00
00:02:01.920So the Hicklib shows up at town council meetings in a Black Lives Matter shirt0.96
00:02:06.700to denounce minority oppression in a community with no actual black people.0.91
00:02:11.280That absence, naturally, becomes further proof of the town's intolerance.0.70
00:02:15.560He loudly organizes pride events attended by two other Hicklibs.0.82
00:02:20.160That little clique stages protests, distributes flyers, and imitates urban activist rituals.0.92
00:02:26.240By practicing the sacraments of their faith, they hope to summon the spirit of the age to judge their reactionary little town.0.98
00:02:33.560The Hicklib has become one of rural America's petty plagues, but as the value of college degrees collapse, a new breed is emerging, the Faillib.0.96
00:02:43.400The Faillib worked hard in high school and gave progressive teachers every approved answer.0.99
00:02:49.520She wrote her college entrance essay on the oppression of trans women of color in coal mining.
00:03:20.820The college degree that cost $100,000 was supposed to guarantee success.
00:03:26.540The debt would be worth it because the credential would deliver a salary large enough for an apartment, a car, and a monthly student loan payment.
00:03:34.400But the degree was not merely about financial security. It was also a symbol of status.
00:03:40.220College graduates were supposed to rule over the simple plebs who never left home.0.99
00:03:45.200The degree would confer wealth, power, and privilege.0.99
00:03:48.720Instead, it turned out that too many people held degrees and too few jobs required them.
00:03:55.080Corporations began cutting HR departments that wasted resources and reduced productivity.0.53
00:04:00.920Poor, oppressed immigrants somehow kept finding work while the fail-lib remained unemployed,
00:04:07.120though a good progressive would never complain.0.66
00:04:09.660She would never explain how, but she was sure that the white Christian patriarchy
00:04:13.860was responsible for this injustice in some way.
00:04:16.460Earlier generations of college students had an insult for the ordinary residents of college towns, the townie.
00:04:25.340The townie was contemptible because he wasn't merely passing through before collecting a credential and moving on to rule the world.
00:04:32.380He belonged to the place the students planned to use and abandon.
00:04:37.040The arrogance required to insult the permanent residents of a community while you're a temporary visitor is already staggering.
00:04:44.680but the slur was very common. It revealed the sneering condescension of the would-be liberal
00:04:50.700elite. Now the tables have turned. The college degree was once a ticket to the top. Now it's
00:04:57.400an expensive lottery ticket with worsening odds. More graduates emerge from extended stays and
00:05:03.180higher education with mountains of debt and few prospects. The fail-lib usually spends about a
00:05:10.220year unemployed, out of college, desperately seeking even the entry-level positions that0.97
00:05:15.380her fancy degree was supposed to let her bypass. After burning through her savings and taking on
00:05:20.980more debt, she accepts a management position at a local Starbucks or retail outlet. If she gets
00:05:26.600really lucky, she might even be able to run a local Apple store. Yes, the Hicklib may be insufferable,1.00
00:05:32.500but the Faillib is worse. She was destined to leave the college town behind and move to a big1.00
00:05:38.880liberal city like New York. She was supposed to be the person ordering lattes and $30 burrito bowls0.98
00:05:44.780for important work lunches, not the person making them. Once, she mocked the parochial townies1.00
00:05:51.000trapped in their backward existence. Now, she's stuck among them with no escape.
00:05:57.260The fail-lib isn't merely trapped in the backwater town. She is poor and low status.0.98
00:06:03.400A management job at Target might provide a decent life in a small town where prices remain low,
00:06:09.520but the fail-lib has a mountain of student debt that she can never repay on a retail wage.
00:06:15.120Plumbers, cops, firefighters, and mechanics, they all seem to make more money and enjoy more status in the community.0.77
00:06:22.500The fail-lib was promised luxury and elite influence.1.00
00:06:25.980Now she serves the people she despises while searching for any opportunity to make their lives worse.1.00
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00:06:43.320look we all know what this looks like we've all seen it you're standing in line at a chipotle or
00:06:52.480i don't know some target or something and you have a woman who clearly doesn't want to be there
00:06:58.820obviously resents the fact that you're standing in the line in the first place she's not from here1.00
00:07:04.820she obviously came into town to go to the college or whatever she expected to be doing something1.00
00:07:11.220really important in chicago filling in a bunch of spreadsheets or whatever she was supposed to do0.97
00:07:16.480with her life telling everyone else about how great it is that she's stopping global warming
00:07:21.600or some genocide somewhere and then she looks at you doing something that's totally normal in your
00:07:27.240area or wearing something that would not be offensive in your area but she feels like she
00:07:32.660has to get involved she has to talk down to you she has to communicate that disgust in some way
00:07:38.900we shouldn't be thinking like this we shouldn't have those kind of evil thoughts in your head i0.98
00:07:43.920can tell that you're a chud from the middle of nowhere and i i should have been better than you
00:07:48.960in every way shape or form but you know you drove in a nice truck and you've got a happy family and0.68
00:07:54.240everyone in the community ultimately respects you uh they all look at this person with contempt
00:07:58.980and they just can't get it they they they don't want to get it they want to hate you they were
00:08:04.100bred to hate you they always hated you and they were supposed to be in charge of you and now
00:08:08.520they're scooping beans into a bowl that you're going to eat and they just hate every single
00:08:14.320moment of their life they they want to attack you so badly but they can't and the seething rage that
00:08:21.200they can barely restrain is just flowing through their eyes as they stare at the rice as it drops
00:08:27.000into your burrito bowl it's really an untamed hatred and look artificial intelligence will
00:08:33.240only intensify this problem the bureaucratic make work jobs progressive college graduates
00:08:38.280once dominated are amongst the easiest to automate consolidate or even eliminate the
00:08:43.760bitter entitlement of a psychology major with a hundred thousand dollars in debt helping you
00:08:48.660find the cereal aisle, that's going to become more and more common. The fail-lib might make
00:08:54.300less money than you. She may be less respected than you. She may even be despised by the townies0.94
00:09:00.220she once mocked. But in her heart, she knows she's superior, and nothing could ever convince her
00:09:07.280otherwise. And she'll spit in your burrito bowl just to remind you who was supposed to be in charge.0.68
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