God's Country
There was a prevailing sentiment at that time that things were just about as bad as they could get. This was in large part because a lot of the old timers in the community had passed on to Glory, and had taken with them the remembrance of a generation that could still speak to the days way back of famine and poverty and violent dissension the likes of which the children today scarcely have the vernacular to describe. These kids with their engorged sense of privilege. Their antiseptic shelters and computer screens. Always looking at themselves, always eaten up with status and whatever trends the wind blows their way. We've raised a fallow crop that could never withstand the breed of adversity that was around back then. Must've been why people felt the way they did. That the world was going to seed and that somehow when they were young it was better. But that wasn't really true, not entirely. It wasn't even true that all the old timers felt different. In fact a lot of the...