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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.