But hasn't the recent economic crisis stressed the fact that we are all extremely connected, at least economically?
Not to mention we are all lazy as fuck and dependent on each other as a result. I am dependent on farmers to grow my food, energy companies to give me energy, builders to build my house, construction workers to build the roads I use everyday, barbers to cut my hair, waiters and waitresses to serve me food, etc.
People back in the day were way more self-sufficient and had much less contact with the outside world than I do. They didn't have to depend on people to do all those things for them.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
