Apr 07, 2012 15:06
I love many things about America. I miss many things I see in American history. In particular I pine for an engaged, educated, democratic populace. I yearn for compassion and empathy.
Car-culture lower 48 drives best to Christian praise rock, just relax and believe like the other cows. Society a cow eating itself, shit, corn in proportion. Women wear bikinis at five here. Boys in Boise only willing to dance when at least one woman was on the floor. The dj played fine dub step breaks but stumbled introducing a better bass line into Rihanna's We Found Love. Kids with gelled hair kept trying to buy "rolls" from me because my dancing was so crazy. They thought drugs were necessary to dance free like that. Freedom just another high.
The truth a motor vehicle large enough for a family of four to live inside. The truth a gravel road. Salvation Army and St. Francis closed on Good Friday because they're not spreading the gospel or loving Jesus in that building, they're just working selling ugly commodities to a grasping horde of Thenardiers ever trying to cheat the unfair world around them.
Desert Industries open in Twin Falls, ID. Like the clothes section of the Glendale Salvation Army: the leavings of prosperous people who became prosperous by getting the full value out of things without losing touch of when it was time to get rid of something that no longer helped you. But Mormons can't believe in their children and their church simultaneously, I would be surprised if the faith outlasts our prosperity-gospel oil addiction. Religion like asphalt can connect all human interaction; the maintenance costs are higher when living in that system.
Everyone speeds here. Everyone throws recyclable and compostable material away. Everyone walks eyes down like prisoners in the yard. Land made to bake and die, to house cows transforming grass into dollars into oil products into life. The ranchers shoot the bison before they can infect the cows, it makes sense. These cows are for eating and you can't eat beef that has a brain-eating parasite in it. Brain-eating parasites dramatically lower a carcass's commodity price.
Idaho only makes sense if Christian praise rock rings true and all that oil-powered machinery don't have a global network of military bases ensuring a continued supply of barrels. If deodorant is necessary inside a hot springs. Squint believe Satan is a real evil god worshipped by foreigners and Muslims. Remember how Satan made Jews evil, that's why God had to send Jesus. Remember how some people when cheated are Jewed.
Spring not much in Idaho this April 7, 2012. The hills are green barely, the grass is dusty. A country of massed hulking rock twirling slowly at 70 per, foamy chunks hill/valley chunks like foam on tide. Like swimming in the ocean when you're young and looking for reasons to stay in the ocean. When the ocean miraculously stays warm long after sunset. When you forget you're swimming and begin to dream. This last a danger, you can't dream when driving. Your fantasies cannot supplant the road.