Reply #65: Sorry. I didn't get your original intent

[GrpCaptMandrake]

My bad.

Today, we suffer from informational malnutrition. We're bloated with information, but of questionable worth. You can fill your belly with marshmallows (Paris Hilton, Natalie Holloway, shark attacks) and yet still be starving for reality.

Vis-a-vis the Depression, our greatest threat lies in forgetting. We've already forgotten a lot. No American city could survive 1929 to 1940 in the present era. They would starve, and then riot. Very little of America still has enough ground to raise a garden or the know how to do so or even put up the produce. Where once were family farms we have either McMansion Developments or corporate farms raising a single crop (most usually #2 Field Grade RoundUpReady corn or soybeans). Probably not one in twenty Americans could raise a chicken to maturity and if they did, wouldn't have the first idea of how to kill it and clean it.

Our culture is manifestly more fragile than it was then. The internet itself (our only bastion against corporate broadcast bilge) hangs on the thinnest of fiber optic hairs. Print journalism, if not already dead, is on life support. Television is electronic marshmallows and our culture is like the man who jumped off the Empire State Building and declared as he zipped past the 40th floor "So far, so good!"


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