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Rural America's Not Coming Back. That Idea Was Lost With The Industrial Revolution. And Yet With More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Living In Metropolitan Areas, There Are Still Demagogues Who Want To Run Down The Idea Of Multiculturalism, Of Urbanity, Being The Only Future We Have. We Either Live Or Die Based On How We Live In Cities, And Our Society Is Either Going To Be Great Or Not Based On How We Perform As Creatures Of The City.

The Murder Clearance Rate Now In My City Baltimore Is Almost Non-existent. Nobody Can Solve A Murder, Nobody Can Do Any Actual Police Work, Because They've Learned How To Do Bad Police Work, Chase Drugs. Fighting Vice, While Being Unable To Respond To Sin. Generations Of Cops Have Learned How Not To Police Work By Policing The Drug War. Not Only Are They Police Brutal, They're Ineffective. Baltimore Is More Violent Than It Has Ever Been In Modern History.

You Have The Capacity To Change The Plot Line Of Your Life, Even If You've Been Acting From The Same Script Since Before You Can Remember. No Matter What Has Happened Up To This Point, You Have The Right And The Capacity To Be Happy. You Are An Innately Creative Being, Capable Of Writing A Love Story Worth Living.

Every Day, Human Beings Are Worth Less. That's The Triumph Of Capitalism. The Money Gets Made, And The Fewer People We Need To Make That Money.

The Best I Can Hope For Is That I Might Provoke A Water Cooler Argument Between You And Somebody Else. But It Is Not Journalism. It Doesn't Have The Rigor Of Journalism. It Doesn't Have The Proof Positive That Facts Provide. So It Can Be Readily Dismissed As Mere Propaganda. But I Can Certainly Reach More People.