Unlearning The 'Nation State'
&gt; The hinterlands deeply resent the emerging, educated, cosmopolitan one-global-city. Certainty, this had a lot to do with Trump being elected. Fear that a multicultural knowledge economy might trump nation state protected privileges runs deep. This fear underpins much of the anti-intellectualism and anti-immigration extremism in these groups.<p>As someone who identifies increasingly with the hinterland, we’re not mad that the educated cosmopolitans exist. We’re mad that they keep trying to rule over us. If you would keep to yourselves, that would be fine. People want to govern themselves. It’s called the right to self-determination. People in Iowa don’t really care about the cosmopolitan elite in DC or New York. But they’re forced to care when the media is entirely run by people in New York, and cosmopolitan bureaucrats living in DC are trying to nationalize the education system, etc. When cosmopolitan elites start demanding we “rename, relocate, or contextualize” the few shared things we have left, like monuments to the founders, they’re forced to care.<p>Also, if we’re evolving toward a borderless “multicultural knowledge economy” why do the cosmopolitan elites care so much about enabling immigration?