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hostile international imperialism.
While abundant examples ol such expansion persist in the modem world, limits on the total amount of physical rea estate (they ain’t making an) more of it) lead to a natura corollary to the concept o1 entropy, that tendency towarc random behavior of all things.
Countries subdivide, fame subdivide, houses subdivide lots subdivide, and so on. In the process, random chaos impinges ever closer on every aspect of lift and like the poor guy in Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,’ the walls and any number o: real or figurative blades keep coming closer and closer. Greal thought, but this joy ride seems likely to continue and accelerate so long as there is a buck to be made on, or a barrel of whatever to be pumped out of, wherever.
There’s nothing new to an) of this.
Driving today on 1-81 from the West Virginia to the Tennessee border certainl) gives the impression thal Virginia is one huge chunk ol real estate; the trip is but a slightly reduced version of the drive across Kansas. But consider this; at an earlier time, had sufficient gas stations beer present, the trip across Virginia could have gone on and on and on, ending with a Kodak moment on the shores of the
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