Thanks for this prescient essay. The author's compassion for those who play by the rules is both accurate and disturbing. Makes you ask many questions about morality and living by the rules. Yes!!! For some, such questions are a privilege not available. For others, such questions are intentionally avoided or dissociated with self-deception or popular self-medication in its various practices and substances.
Has this always been true? A new phenomenon? I can remember in the 80's reading about people living in subway tunnels, with cardboard walls.
As I started reading San Francisco flashed through my mind. My sister lives in Albuquerque and mentioned that Santa Fe has replaced SF because rich Silicon Valley people moved there. SF got too expensive and folks had to relocate. The middle class has been eliminated. Malcolm Nance had Dahlia Withwick on. She said there was (Nazi Germany) and will be law remedy for the very rich and the very poor. The middle masses don't matter (except for maybe their vote on election day.)
You always provoke me to think thoughts that never crossed my mind before. Thanks.
A sad, but awesome piece of writing. It makes one pine for “ Bush to New York … drop dead!”
That was Ford
Thanks for this prescient essay. The author's compassion for those who play by the rules is both accurate and disturbing. Makes you ask many questions about morality and living by the rules. Yes!!! For some, such questions are a privilege not available. For others, such questions are intentionally avoided or dissociated with self-deception or popular self-medication in its various practices and substances.
The Chosen One decrees that credit card interest rates shall be 60+% lower. The Goldern Age is here? Affordability by decree?
A tale of two cities.
Has this always been true? A new phenomenon? I can remember in the 80's reading about people living in subway tunnels, with cardboard walls.
As I started reading San Francisco flashed through my mind. My sister lives in Albuquerque and mentioned that Santa Fe has replaced SF because rich Silicon Valley people moved there. SF got too expensive and folks had to relocate. The middle class has been eliminated. Malcolm Nance had Dahlia Withwick on. She said there was (Nazi Germany) and will be law remedy for the very rich and the very poor. The middle masses don't matter (except for maybe their vote on election day.)
You always provoke me to think thoughts that never crossed my mind before. Thanks.
Ooops …. Senior moments… it certainly was Ford