Sunday, February 09, 2014

It Seemed LIke A Good Idea at The Time

A little trash in the desert has a big impact.  A fallen down shack with some junk cars and falling down fences has a special ability to ruin a scene in the desert.  Someone once had a brilliant idea to make a homestead in the most hopeless place on Earth.  Almost always these kingdoms have to be surrounded by chain link fence as if there were treasures there someone would actually bother to steal.  You can travel to Alaska, or to the remotest desert in Arizona and always find the leavings of the guy who had a dream.  Living off the land was a phase in the sixties.  Just go in the woods, the desert, or the wilderness plant some seeds and sit back.  Will anyone ever clean up the mess these people made?  Every time Kadizzle goes sees these dilapidated places he wonders " how can you be so damn lazy you cannot even pick up the trash in your yard?".  It's not trash to the man in his kingdom.  The old car is going to be repaired.  The bath tub will be a horse watering trough, and the window frames salvaged from the gas station that burnt down will be used for the new addition.  In the west you can find whole towns of mini slums.  Doesn't anyone every say " lets clean this place up".  No, it is a paradise just waiting to happen.

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