3 thoughts on “Unsustainable California”

  1. This is classic. How Californication spreads…


    Patricia […] also swapped her California plates for the red-white-and-blue “Famous Potatoes” version when she moved from Dana Point in 2015 to the Boise suburb of Eagle. She had retired as dean of online education and learning resources at Saddleback College.

    “I took the position that I would come to Idaho and adapt to the community,” she said. [yeah, right] She has a doctorate in education. Earlier in her career, she’d taught English as a Second Language at three Southern California community colleges. She’d also run an ESL program at Lake Tahoe Community College. When she moved, she decided to volunteer with non-English speakers. […] “I probably irritated [the director] by my confidence.”
    [Right, strikes one and two] …

    “I’m not here to be a Californian,” she said. “I’m here to be a community member [organizer?] and contribute.”
    [strike three]

  2. The first paragraph gets the diagnosis wrong. The wealthy and poor are not divided in California. They are allied against the middle class. We are seeing the birth of a feudal society.

    The rich v. poor dystopia is what comes next.

  3. Mirrors on the ceiling
    Pink champagne on ice
    And she said
    We are all just prisoners here
    Of our own device
    And in the master’s chambers
    They gathered for the feast
    They stab it with their steely knives
    But they just can’t kill the beast
    Last thing I remember
    I was running for the door
    I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
    Relax said the nightman
    We are programmed to receive
    You can check out any time you like
    But you can never leave

    Songwriters: Glenn Lewis Frey, Don Felder, Donald Hugh Henley

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