11 thoughts on “The calls are coming from inside the split-level ranch

  1. I walk among them here in the rural exurbs, too. If 250 miles from a major population center qualifies as exurban, I mean.

    1. "As suburbia has grown poorer, the more affluent homeowners have fled for the even greener pastures of exurbia."

          1. Hating the DWP is the easiest stance to have here, no matter the issue.

            There's such a surplus supply of water this year, they are having a tough time dispersing it in the valley before it inevitably flows downhill and causes financial damage to their dust mitigation project on the Owens Dry Lakebed.

          2. They've pretty much destroyed this valley, but they tell us what good overlords they are, by allowing us to "recreate" on the desiccated remains…

  2. Somewhat related, from Jez

    PlacidoFlamingo

    Those champagne popsicles would have been really refreshing on the Bataan Death March. It’s a shame they didn’t think of it.

  3. In The Mass Psychology of Fascism, his look at the German economy and ideology in the five years preceding Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, Wilhelm Reich argued that this was largely because of the petite bourgeoisie’s dependence on the patriarchal family unit, which he called the “central reactionary germ cell” of “the authoritarian state.” As the “heads” of their families, small-business-owning men often exploited their wives and children and enforced a patriarchal morality on them in the interest of protecting their somewhat vulnerable enterprises. This oriented the petite bourgeoisie structurally toward reactionary politics.


    That is both interesting and depressing. Fuck.

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