Midwest rural America, the people and nature, has long been the sacrifice zone for industrializing the course of agriculture, greatly amped on the technological fruits of the second world war -- machinery, pesticides and nitrogen fertilizer, applied to earth with war-like efficiencies and propaganda to boot. And with this came a competit…
Midwest rural America, the people and nature, has long been the sacrifice zone for industrializing the course of agriculture, greatly amped on the technological fruits of the second world war -- machinery, pesticides and nitrogen fertilizer, applied to earth with war-like efficiencies and propaganda to boot. And with this came a competition of freedoms in the "free" market, with the free hand given to the producers, and the back of the hand to those suffering the cost of market failures. So goes the reign of free market capital in our democracy with both parties aligned solidly on the side of plenty with little accounting of the costs to those in the sacrifice zone. With those at the top determining what are acceptable losses to those at the bottom. So we get it: be strong and suck it up, like good patriots on the war front, excusing toxic leakages and tipping our hat to best management practices. It sucks to have to get the point of non-point.
Midwest rural America, the people and nature, has long been the sacrifice zone for industrializing the course of agriculture, greatly amped on the technological fruits of the second world war -- machinery, pesticides and nitrogen fertilizer, applied to earth with war-like efficiencies and propaganda to boot. And with this came a competition of freedoms in the "free" market, with the free hand given to the producers, and the back of the hand to those suffering the cost of market failures. So goes the reign of free market capital in our democracy with both parties aligned solidly on the side of plenty with little accounting of the costs to those in the sacrifice zone. With those at the top determining what are acceptable losses to those at the bottom. So we get it: be strong and suck it up, like good patriots on the war front, excusing toxic leakages and tipping our hat to best management practices. It sucks to have to get the point of non-point.
Lou, yes, as Bill Stowe said, Iowa is a sacrifice zone--we have to fight back against this.