The more time I spend on the internet (which is too much if you ask my wife, and she's right) the more misanthropic I become. If it isn't reactionary responses filled with scatological language, it's vapidity on vulgar display. Then there are those posts, blogs, snippets, etc, that call evil good and good evil. I've a mind to dump my CPU in the Rouge. But then. . . how would I know what teenagers are bored because they've announced it on Facebook?
During breakfast today I was reading an excerpt from a play in The New York Times Magazine (I know, I was a day behind and read Saturday's edition yesterday) entitled Rust . The play, written by a professor at Grand Valley State University, here in Michigan, is a nonfiction drama about the closing of a GM plant in Wyoming, MI. The play itself sounds interesting and I enjoyed the excerpt, but what caught my eye was something a character said. The character is "Academic" and plays a historian and guide to the playwright, also a character. He is explaining the rise of the automobile factories and the effect of the car on American culture. He says, "Women became independent, they go from producers of food and clothing to consumers of food and clothing." This was meant as an earnest, praiseworthy point. I would counter with "How far we've fallen." To say that a woman (or a man) is independent because she has m...
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