Return to Your Hometown

Photo by the author.

We live in a land of pods. Pretty much like factory farm animals, every generation of a family is separated from each other. The parents are divorced, the grandparents in a nursing home, the kids in New York, the friends scattered across the country.

A society whose highest goal is the liberation of the individual has fomented a culture where any gifted kid in a small town is expected to flee. In fact, the more one…