Well, girl, you cannot afford a haven in a foreign paradise, and lots of luck convincing Belford Dunn to desert his native land in its hour of need. None of the aforementioned remedies are likely to be applied, and if they were, they probably would be too little, too late, the ladder to the moon having already toppled. So what is the solution? The solution, you think, is war.

  Yes, why not? You type in war (knocking the errant hair aside as you strike the A), and watch the word shimmer like a line of phosphorescent battle dust on the PC screen. As you understand it, the United States has been operating under a wartime economy since 1941. With the end of World War II, there were those who feared a resumption of the Great Depression, and some who reasoned that an ongoing military state was an excellent way to control both the American populace and foreign competitors, so instead of beating our swords into plowshares, we invented a new enemy-the downtrodden, depleted, but godless Soviet Union-and devoted our capability to making bigger and better swords. This history lesson came to you, you must confess, by way of your dad and his radical pothead pals and thus should be totally discredited, except that this morning you are finding a hempseed of truth in it.

( Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas )

Tom Robbins

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