THE NATIONAL DIVIDE AS EXPRESSED IN BRUNCH VERSUS CHURCH
You have people living in suburbs, bunkered off from the rest of the world.
Their social hub is church, regardless of whether they are spiritual people or not. If they want to interact with the other people they worked so hard to lock themselves off from, church is where they have to go.
Then you have younger, more urban people. Instead of church you have brunch. It doesnt serve quite the same purpose because younger urbanites have a lot of other conduits for personal interaction within their neighborhoods. But its the sunday morning analogue in this instance.
The problem comes when church becomes a defacto (often right wing) political organization, as it has become more and more.
This is obviously a huge oversimplification of the divide but I think there’s something there.
TO WIT
We’re off having bottomless mimosas and rolling our eyes every time Shaun trainwrecks ‘What a Fool Believes’ into ‘Buffalo Stance’ and they are off hearing about how trans people are just doing it to molest children in Target bathrooms.
I am convinced that this song is the perfect Sunday morning song. It approaches gently and moves and builds in a way that nurtures one’s hangover while gingerly rolling them awake:
—jason malmberg
Flommist Jason Malmberg is a simple man who believes in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art sometimes. Copyright © 2017 Jason Malmberg. Art history image source.
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