society

Alcohol and Board Games...short, short read.

A glance at society, urban and cemented.

"“Looking to try this,” you say. “Is it really, really awful?” you ask ... But I know also that you’re responding to something you’ve found in my writing–the vicarious thrill of someone who seems to have played with fire and barely singed her fingertips ... But there’s another side to this deal that I’m afraid I haven’t shown you."

Thomas Homer-Dixon finds the earthquake an apt metaphor for the stresses that lie beneath the surface of our society. In The Upside of Down he may be doing more to frighten us than to offer feasible solutions.