The isolation of a small town
In a community email loop I hear from home constantly – the latest rumble is concern over a convenience store entering the spot where the Circle K was pre-Katrina that has been sitting vacant since the storm. There are those who are concerned about the element these places attract, then those who claim those claims are racist, and then there are the persistent NIMBY’s and the persistent “why can’t we all get along?” – but what is most disconcerting thousands of miles away is the persistent “small town” thinking that radiates from these communiques.