The Great Right North

They built the suburbs as a means to have all the advantages of working in the city without the disadvantages of living there... and they raised the cost of rent in the City to ensure the suburbs would be populated, and they sprawled onwards to great lengths, taking over farmland and replacing it with Super Marts and highways and gas stations.

It's the North American way of life: don't grow taller, grow wider. And do so by making it financially more affordable to expand sideways than stay a healthy stand-up society. Hot dogs at two for a dollar at a junk food 'restaurant', but a steak costs 5 bucks at the grocery store. So you get fat and expand, like your parents did when they moved out of town. Three kids and two cars later, no one's happy and we're running out of fucking land. In the second biggest country in the world.

Where does the sprawl have left to go? North-bound. Of course, directly North is another suburb; more North is Lake Territory, with high-priced country houses. But farther North, in the tundra, lies a New Virgin Territory. Quick, hire the cops, appoint a corrupt mayor, ask the government to give contracts to their friends in the construction racket business to build little towns. Make sure there are a few high-rise buildings this time around, though. For the City Kids like us, so we feel at home. And make sure that by the time we get there, it's already a bummer to live there, full of rules and laws that make no sense. Make the bars close at a ridiculous time, like before the hockey games end. Make swimming pools illegal. Make the tolerated level of noise - before receiving a ticket - lower than a baby's scream.

The politics of truth will never change, as long as the guilty have someone to blame.

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away.