When the Smog Cleared Thirty Years Later--Methland

[rich]

Hi all--

IV ends on a somewhat anxious note, Doc wondering about what will be
revealed when the fog clears (or words to that effect)
Well, California (Salton Sea) being one of the homes of metamphetamine
one could safely say what was revealed 30 yrs down the road when the
fog finally cleared was Methland.  a perfect drug for the working
poor, stressed out to the max, gotta work double shifts to make ends
meet, meth made them feel good, one of the few good things in their
lives, as the small Midwestern towns shrunk and decayed, who offered
only shit jobs with no benefits, the perfect drug for those scuttling
under the heels of  BigAgra, the Pharmaceutical industry, the Mexican
drug cartels, the US government, law enforcement, and other disturbed
tweakers.

This is surely great fodder for a great novel that can encompass so
much of what is wrong, tragic and downright evil about the forces of
control in post-cold war capitalism; corruption, violence (sexual and
otherwise) the drug wars and drugs, like meth.

Hopefully, someone (Vollman's Imperial pbly covers some of this but we
need a better novel) will write it some day. In the interim I
recommend reading Nick Reding's book.

No Doc Sportellos here folks...

Rich