Ozark Pagans

here in the ozark mountains we find a rural area where, we're told, some counter-cultural elements from the 1960s and 70s moved in. now, day brown tells us, they run the schools and the local ACT scores are in the 90th percentile. day brown is a 70 year old man who's lived in the ozarks for the last 30 years. in the last seven or eight years he's become involved in breeding varieties of artichoke, potatoes, blessed thistle, and other herbs for effectiveness and affinity to the ozark climate. he believes there will be a growing market for herbs and, if his prognostications of the apocalypse come true, his living situation will scarcely change. he still eats mostly off the land. when the currency collapses, and war and famine ravage the cities, only a select few with any wherewithal will even make it out to this far off corner of the ozarks. the rest will die in the cities without medication, food, or any help.

via the internet, he stays quite well informed. when we ask a leading question of ours, "why do gay people exist, given that evolution selects against them," he fires back, "hold on a minute, being gay doesn't prevent you from passing your genes to the next generation." and we continue into some discussions of bisexuality in males and females, serial monogamy, poly pods, and the stabilizing influence of sex on men and women. and as we talk into the night, day tells us that the whole world is a matrix-- a projection out of the mind of the goddess. it's like movie the matrix, he says, except there's no world outside, just the goddess. then the real catch of this theory is that all the people you run into are in fact just avatars there to help you work out your karmic knots. you in fact wrote the script of your own matrix a long time ago, and you get little glimpses of your script in dreams. yes, the time you spend on the internet reading this was scripted by you a long time ago.