In the thrall of the myth

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Oh, now, this is really brilliant. I couldn't have said it better myself. Bound to piss some people off, but, as they say, the truth hurts. Ignoring the truth hurts more.

James Howard Kunstler writes in Orion Online about Americans, obesity, depression, and the American Way of Life.

Perhaps my favorite statement in this piece: "Today's older Americans have spent their entire lives in a car-obsessed culture in which walking is seen as uncomfortable at least and at worst socially stigmatizing, something only winos do."

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I love Orion. And not just because they published a short letter I sent them responding to an article (last fall, I think). That magazine is one more thing I have to thank Ursula Le Guin for -- I first discovered it while tracking down a story of hers they published:

"The Asonu," Orion 17:4 (1998:Autumn), 26-33. Reprinted as "The Silence of the Asonu" in Changing Planes, 2003.

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1998, huh? I subscribed to Orion for a couple of years, but I don't remember when.... I'll have to look and see if I still have my old copies. Seems like I'd remember a story by Ursula, though, so it was probably later than that....

It is a great magazine, isn't it? And such photography!