"The autumn months are never a calm time in
America. Back to Work, Back to Football Practice, etc.... Autumn is a
very Traditional period, a time of strong Rituals and the celebrating of
strange annual holidays like Halloween and Satanism and the fateful
Harvest Moon, which can have ominous implications for some people.
"Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and
Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old
people and fleece the weak and helpless. They want to lay in enough cash
to weather the known horrors of January and February. There is always a
rash of kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football
months. Preteens of both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off
the streets by gangs of organized perverts who traditionally give them
as Christmas gifts to each other to be personal sex slaves and
playthings.
"Most of these things are obviously Wrong and Evil
and Ugly — but at least they are Traditional. They will happen. Your
driveway will ice over, your furnace will blow up, and you will be
rammed in traffic by an uninsured driver in a stolen car.
"But what the hell? That's why we have Insurance,
eh? And the Inevitability of these nightmares is what makes them so
reassuring. Life will go on, for good or ill. But some things are
forever, right? The structure may be a little Crooked, but the
foundations are still strong and unshakable.
"Ho ho. Think again, buster. Look around you.
There is an eerie sense of Panic in the air, a silent Fear and
uncertainty that comes with once-reliable faiths and truths and solid
Institutions that are no longer safe to believe in.... There is a
Presidential Election, right on schedule, but somehow there is no
President. A new Congress is elected, like always, but somehow there is
no real Congress at all — not as we knew it, anyway, and whatever passes
for Congress will be as helpless and weak as whoever has to pass for
the 'New President.'"
--Hunter S. Thompson, Hey Rube, 11-20-00
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