I've read bits of it, but not the whole thing.
From where I sit, civilization is cooperative, orderly and settled - not at all sitting above a rage-filled volcano. I see zero evidence that people want more than to go about their daily tasks and enjoy their homes and families and outside interests. I live in the suburbs, where everyone mows their lawns and pays their bills and worries about their credit ratings and no one litters or lets their dogs run loose or walks on anyone else's grass.
Now, when I go into D.C., it is different, it is noisy, dirty, disorderly, with graffiti and torn posters on the walls and broken down vehicles and garbage in the streets.
I have a hard time imagining all these house-proud suburbanites, who obsess over the quality of their lawns, and spend Saturdays at Home Depot, just seething with the desire to go wild. |
