Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 21, 2019

“Opie”? Is this a Ron Howard movie?

This could get interesting …

Wait! Where’d this guy come from? And you’ve had a friend with a spaceship, albeit- tiny, and you still lived in the desert?

Fifth Dimension

As long as the parallel dimension has donuts I’m in.

Well this could go off the parallel rails quickly…let’s see where this is going. Maybe he is going to a parallel dimension where people actually seek common ground…we shall see.

In the multiverse of possibilities we’d been drifting off toward the fringes with all that talk of freedom, liberty & justice. Now we’re headed back toward the authoritarian mainstream.

I spend time thinking up parallel scenarios. Reading history including the rarely mentioned things can be very interesting in things. Some of them nearly happened. We are in a bad parallel right now. Ours isn’t the best of all possible worlds.

Just imagine if the Puritans were put down by the Pagans here in 1627? They had a more robust protection mechanism and joined the Indians, escaped black slaves & others becoming what the USA has claimed to be.

I was influenced by THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT by Nathaniel Hawthorn. As a sort of antidote to the Libertarian fantasy of L. Neil Smith beginning with “The Probability Broach” I first started reading in 1981. The subtitle to my work is (“Where Merry Mount Wins and leads the way to a new, diverse and different nation of jollity over gloom") WE got the Puritanical gloom. I also use the history book, “THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA” by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker for more details of what might have been and why it wasn’t.`