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Friday |
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This is the
Hawaii Jack London
wrote about. He was a socialist and there's a
socialist resurgence occurring, from Kshama Sawant to Bernie
Sanders. People are fed up with gilded
age excess. Whether by ballot
or bullet, something's got to change. Any
nation is only 9
meals away from revolution and though
ostensibly well-fed, people are starting to
suspect they're undernourished. So it's somewhat
symbolic that this Dickensian
sugarcane operation is winding down for
whatever reason. The smokestack's stopped belching
and the bagasse
is piling up. One factor is climate chaos, too
much or too little rain in all the wrong places in
what used to be a predictable cycle. Maybe throw
in a touch of real estate speculation and a
sharecropper future. In the midst of this mess I
find my
favorite bookstore selling classic hardback
editions for 25 cents. All stories foretold before
they unfold. Death to plantations! |