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February 1, 2016

I realized we are like the hapless, squatter Greeks of the Dark Ages.

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I recently took a few road trips longitudinally and latitudinally across California. The state bears little to no resemblance to what I was born into.
In a word, it is now a medieval place of lords and peasants—and few in between. Or rather, as I gazed out on the California Aqueduct, the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Luis Reservoir, I realized we are like the hapless, squatter Greeks of the Dark Ages, who could not figure out who those mythical Mycenaean lords were that built huge projects still standing in their midst, long after Lord Ajax and King Odysseus disappeared into exaggeration and myth. Henry Huntington built the entire Big Creek Hydroelectric Project in the time it took our generation to go to three hearings on a proposed dam. California of the Dark Ages | PJ Media

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 1, 2016 4:06 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Back in 1955 Ross Macdonald of the Lew Archer fame, said,"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."

A very prescient person was he.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 2, 2016 10:41 AM

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