Not sure if I really understand what you mean but I'll try to give you my best answer in short.
All people in big cities? No, probably 80/20 ratio these 80% have no idea of rural life, infrastructure or how the technology they use really works and they often don't care about. Based on limited knowledge they often make decisions that have little to no effect on their life's but can have huge impact on people living another model.
This together with decision makers who don't care about anything but their own power and money has everything we need for a catastrophe.
Sorry for being political here. I'm not going into that deeper. If I made mistake here please contact me and explain it and I will delete my comments.
I was agreeing with you... it's a term meaning "keep telling the truth".
Here's a really good, simple, basic example of a person who "based on limited knowledge they often make decisions that have little to no effect on their life's but can have huge impact on people living another model".
Our community had a music teacher at the high school that was popular with kids and parents. He commuted here from the big city to the north of here. One day a hose he liked came up for sale, so he bought it and moved. He did not realize that someone within the neighborhood he moved into had a half dozen chickens and a goose. We are a rural town and it wasn't uncommon for people to have these, as well as ducks. A few home owners, with large enough lots, even had larger animals, such as horses, cows, pigs, sheep and so on. When these properties got annexed into the city limits no one cared, those animals had been around for decades.
Anyway... this guy from the city, who chose to move here, got irritated that the rooster and goose like to crow and honk in the mornings and various other times. This really irritated him and he didn't like it. He complained to the owner and the city about it and they let him know that we were a rural community and the animals had been around for decades. At the first chance he got to run for city council he did. Guess what the very first ordinance he muscled through... when he got done EVERY SINGLE "farm type" animal was banned within the city limits. No one fought back and several property owners were forced get rid of their animals, some of which were pets.
That was the only reason he wanted on the council. 30+ years later, after a lot of fighting, people can now have chickens, no more than 6, no roosters and if they have a big enough lot. The chicken yard and coop must be inspected by the police as well.
Here's another... the city has allowed open burning on people's property for generations; every property in town even burned off their yards before Spring and would burn their leaves in the Fall!
We bought a ramshackled house on 1.3 acres that was horribly overgrown. We have gravel parking lots to the north and west of us (football field parking), a vacant field to the east and a street and high school parking to the south. Because of all the growth on our property we would have rather large bonfires. We took all of the precautions everyone else in town were required to take - notify the fire depart that you are going to burn, hoses on hand and other equipment to use in case it got out of hand. It took us over 10 years to deal with the overgrowth and we typically had two bonfires a year. At no time did we have an issue or have one get out of hand. I've lived here my entire life, save 5 years, and have never known of an open burn getting out of hand to the point that it became a threat.
Nowadays we typically have one, modest bonfire in the fall - now we are banned from doing so. About 3 years ago, another "city person" moved to town. Their neighbor had cut down a tree and had it hauled off. The guy raked up the remains and decided to burn them along with other sticks from his yard. The wind came up and the fire started his grass on fire - nothing big, just a slow progression and no flare-ups. The guy got his hose out and extinguished the entire thing. However, the burn got with 10' of the "city person's" chain link fence and freaked them out. They called the police and the fire department. By the time they got there the fire was definitely out and the guy was raking everything into a pile. The neighbor was so freaked out, and wouldn't let it go, that we now have a new city ordinance banning open burns, you MUST use a 3' fire ring. The ring MUST be inspected by the police AND you are supposed to notify them each time you burn yard waste and they are supposed to inspect THAT as well. We are friends with many of tge first responders in town and I have told them this ordinance is a joke. Even pointed out there was nothing in the ordinance stating a person was limited to 1 fire ring; what's to stop me from having 10 or more.
Unfortunately, starting back in the 1980s, people from the bigger cities have been moving into our rural communities - and ruining them. They bring their big city ways, thoughts and ideas and then start demanding that the small, rural towns become mini versions of the big city. They end up getting voted on councils, school boards and other committees and boards - and they start implementing schemes that just about bankrupt the communities. And to make matters worse... these "city people" don't work here, many don't participate in community events,, they just 'live' here.
I know this because I live here. Thanks to those types of people my little town is a shadow of what it use to be.
