Texas raconteur WF Strong recently lamented changing times in Texas on the NPR newsmagazine Texas Standard. The former Fulbright Scholar noted that we used to stay in the truck to get gas and go inside to eat. Now we get out to pump gas and sit in the truck to eat. Only one in five Texans are rural anymore. Small farms are disappearing, replaced by commercial farms where tractors never sleep. Today teenagers are happier cruising the net than cruising around town, opined Strong. Having too many windows open means something quite different today.
Still he’s happy, he says, for the beating back over time, of many of the –isms: racism, sexism, ageism, and ethnocentrism. However, he adds, unbridled narcissism is healthier than ever.
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