Just finished yet another book that gives me that Our Future Is Soooo Fucked feeling, Andrew Blechman's Leisureville, a more in-depth look into America's planned retirement communities than, surprisingly, anyone has yet undertaken. These places are hardly new; Ben Schleifer developed the first ironically named Youngtown in 1954 by simply buying an
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"Who are you?"
"I am the new Number Two."
"Who is Number One?"
"You are Number Six."
"I'm not a number. I'm a free man!"
[Derisive laughter]
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