Joe;
Wow, what an article! I have just read your essay "A Feral Dog Howls in Harvard Yard". It's as true as the day is long. Our typical tenured professor has as much guts, smarts and pluck as a gerbil and wouldn't last five minutes in the real world.
Damn it, Joe, I'm not blowing smoke up your ass when I say your articles are simply a desperately needed breath of fresh air. You know I'm right. Of course you're not infallible or wise in all things. So what? You have the guts to stand on your own two feet and boldly speak the truth as you see it. Outside of the internet, that behavior almost doesn't exist here in the US. Land of the "Free & Brave" my ass. Jefferson and Washington would weep for a hundred years if they could see the present state of affairs.
I know I'm boring you to tears with my rant but I simply can't resist typing this.
I too am horrified and mad as hell at this pathetic lifestyle and culture we currently have. My hope, lame as it is, is that the combination fiat currency, national and private debt will bring this supremely corrupt house of cards down sooner or later. All the truly endless government agency parasites and SS Gestapo zombies will be in a world of shit then. And bad karma or not, it's not going to bother me even one little tiny bit. Chairman Mao and the French revolution had their good points.
Major kudos to you for having the courage to bail the, as you say, "unstomachable" whore. A year ago I bailed to a very tiny town in South Dakota which is as far away from the bureaucrats (and ex-wives) as I can get. I too will always be an American (God help me) but I yearn to live long enough to see the machine crumble. Maybe then, by miracle, we can create a better world.
Thanks again, Joe. Keep your chin up!
Dave
South Dakota
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Dave,
Oh, I do not think we are so alone in our thinking. A couple of weeks ago at a speaking engagement I asked the audience to raise their ands of they thought total collapse was the only catalyst that can bring meaningful change to America. Every hand went up
I was struck damned near speechless. Three years ago when that question was asked, a hand seldom went up in the audience.
Something is afoot inside Americans, something no candidate dare talk about nor the media dare mention.
In art and labor,
Joe
