10-18-2017, 03:32 PM
There's a town about ten miles away from me in which I don't want to live because about half of it (an old industrial area with lots of hexavalent chromium and PCBs (including the infamous dioxin) has dangerous groundwater due to toxic dumping from the 1920 to the 1970s, old polluters having largely relocated elsewhere or folded). Of course the town is also an economic wreck. It's a high-cancer zone. I'm not giving details because I know people who live there. I am surprised that the town still exists.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.