G O I N G  O F F  T H E  R A I L S

  Magellan's Log Copyright © 2006 Texas Chapbook Press
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Societies, like individuals, are ignorant of their true best qualities and of their true worst. Which is why it's such a tragicomic surprise when they finally go off the rails. Viz. the United States, where it turned out that its best and worst qualities were identical: obsession with new and clever ways of making money.