Anyone else read this book? I finished reading it over the weekend, and found it deeply fascinating. I feel like I understand your country much more than I previously did. Why is your society so divided? How can you have such radically conflicting views? Now I know.
I think it’s essential reading for anyone trying to understand the fractured nature of American society.
there was a wildly left wing book a few decades ago called Ecotopia. The left coast secedes from the union. I couldn't get past the first few chapters because it was way too Good-Ship-Lollypop-Tom-Robbins-Richard-Brautigan-Dr-Seuss-Alfred-E-Neuman.....yeah, that's accurate anyway, I've fantasized a few times since then about Oregon, Washington, California, & British Columbia forming their own country. Of course, we'd take along Nevada, Hawaii, Baja, and Alaska so we'd have sin and a variety of vacation destinations. We'd have the best sport fishing in the world too still sounds good to me
There’s nothing about the USA that says it has to stay together. The citizens of the Roman Empire thought it inevitable that it would always be (the city of Rome is even called the Eternal City) they were wrong. The sun never set on the British Empire, now it’s so reduced even Scotland wants to break away. The USSR thought that communism would dominate the world, now it’s former territories are openly against Russia. There’s nothing so special about the USA that makes it destined to be united forever. The differences in the multiple North American cultures are real, and the fractures are widening every day.
