To Have Anything You Must Give Her Everything
“You peeling down into your French lingerie and your slick high-heeled cowgirl boots, I swear on a stack of Gideon’s, you don’t want a fair fight… Trying to ensnare me in my own weaknesses…. I know your kind; you’ll have nothing and nobody to blame but all those temptations you’re trying to weaken my will with.”
Fletcher McCrea from Hot Spring Honeymoon
The majesty of a seduction is something special. At the scale of infrastructure it isn’t just special it is monumental.
A good piece of public policy that works toward the common good of the entire society seems to have become illusive. It is as if the transmission mechanisms for making good choices have been clogged.
It isn’t too hard to understand. We weaken the will of an otherwise sensible person by buttering them up with legalized bribery. This is known as a campaign contribution.
This will work until it doesn’t and right now failure is looking truly global, as in global climate change.
This human foible, this human sickness of being incapable of preventing our politics and economics from destroying mother earth is in full view for all to see. It isn’t a secret. It is tragedy and like any audience we know what is going to happen and yet we are unable to stop it.
Well, one way or another it will end. Like a good love affair sometimes you have to give one thing up to get the pleasure of another.
“If I was you, Fletcher McCrea, I’d start washing my hands and combing my hair. End of your bachelorhood’s not even fifty yards away.”
Glenna Goddard reply… from Hot Spring Honeymoon
