Originally Posted by Botnst

Sophisticated people are contemptuous of 'cowboys'--people who are self-reliant and who look at life and work in simple terms like right/wrong, good/evil, friend/enemy. Sophisticated people see a vast volume of lumpy grays in a twilight world where honor and duty are virtues for children and weak-minded adults. Sophisticated people believe that since they see a complex, hard to understand word and cowboys see things in terms of good and evil, that cowboys must be simple-minded and naive. Worse, cowboys are dangerous because they think that wrong things should be destroyed and bad people, punished. Thus, the contempt for cowboys.