I don't even have any illusions, and sometimes I miss those more then anything else.
Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway, p. 169
Do ya? Do ya watch it? The First 48? Dog; The Bounty Hunter, Intervention, Billy The Exterminator, Heavy, Storage Wars, and / or The Pickers? The rule for good television today is making a profit, a career or even fame and celebrity from someone else' misfortune or carcass. And woven in this is a savagery that increases as time goes on.
The fire of the American Dream is down to it's last dying embers. The shit eating beetles of the spiral to the bottom are starving to death now that the carcass is almost gone and are randomly transformed in an instant catalytic pop to another piece of inert detritus.
The frontiers are all gone. A new world has risen from the old. No one has been taking notes. The elephant in the room is us....
Once, when I was a younger man, a crazy, obsessed traveler embarked on " a savage journey to the heart of the American Dream"
We know what happened to the Dream...
The Savagery? It is well and thriving....
It alone continues.....
( As your lawyer I am getting ready for the Governor General Literary Awards.....)
[sob.... BRAVO!! :EDITOR]
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