Our Grand Inquisitor has links to a series of articles from a newspaper in Humboldt describing the life of pot growers. As you read them, you get a sense of decay - physical, moral, spiritual, social and structural. Everything is falling apart in slow motion and only some seem to be aware of it. It's like the clock is running backwards and the world is going from 2010 to 1830 or thereabouts.
The articles in the series are relatively short and thoroughly engrossing.
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1830? A time when the government (at any level) didn't intrude on every single aspect of your life?
A time when your neighbor could be a total screw up, and you could freely ignore him or laugh at him (or shoot him if he thought your stuff was his to take)?
You make it sound like a bad thing.
I was thinking more along the lines of a time when medical care was primitive, there were no paved roads, a minimal education system ...
Pretty soon we'll have it all... intrusive government, lowest-common-denominator health care, failing education, neglected infrastructure... but this time we'll be taxed to death for it.
1830 is beginning to sound a whole lot better...
(mosemi)
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