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an unfortunate troglodyte
>troglodyte: a person who is regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned<
GK's continuous apologia for the many deplorable characteristics in the midwestern U.S. psyche is wearing very thin. Why is it of more general interest whether it snows in Minnesota than whether Quebec achieves independence?
Mr. Keillor's many worldly-wise references do not make him any less narrow and cramped in his devotion to an idealized homeliness that never existed in reality. There is no doubt some spiritual logic to being "plain," as the Amish would call it, but constant enthusiastic glorification of small concerns is not it.