The rules were written with good intentions to correct examples of ignorance and to solve conflict before it happens but they are enforced in blunt instrument fashion without judgement (most especially upon the individual that has the gall to actually want to build something) as a result of the Barney Fife mentality of local yokels who may have no idea why the rule was written in the first place. (tinyhousebuild.com)
Suddenly, the film is invaded by an army of yokel locals and money - grubbing family members, all looking for a piece of Woody's «winnings.» (film.avclub.com)
(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.» (educationnext.org)