 Neither, says Simon van Zylen Wood. The central question that's raised in Hillbilly Elegy is, you know, why did this part of America get left behind? It's about his upbringing in this town, which, you know, was devastated by the loss of industry. So in some sense, when you look at sort of post-industrial America, you're looking at his recipes for more social cohesion, right? He was raised by his grandmother instead of his mom, who was a drug addict. He converted to Catholicism as an adult. His vision now as a kind of a religious conservative, as someone who's interested in intense sort of local social cohesion,