Interesting reaction to “The Atomic Road Trip” (Letters, HCN, 5/27/19). Don’t be so defensive. The essay focused on the sanitization of human history and the commercialization of most everything. The “Land of Enchantment” has everything to do with people. I love New Mexico. The best we can do is to be inconspicuous and unpretentious. Doug […]
Doug Morris
Posted inJune 11, 2018: Reclaiming the Klamath
Consumptive flight
In response to “Jet lag” (HCN, 5/14/18), I’m wondering what Jonathan Thompson is so provocatively trying to say, and I’m reminded of Bob Dylan’s liner note to his seminal record Highway 61 Revisited record: “The subject matter, though meaningful as it is, has something to do with the beautiful strangers.” I’d like to walk through […]
Posted inJune 9, 2014: Border Out of Control
Inexhaustible supply
Regarding “Two-Wheel Revolution” (HCN, 4/28/14), I was amused by your comparison of Gallup to Santa Fe as to the prevalence of “small loan companies.” The problems in Gallup are symptoms of problems in Santa Fe: elite concentrations of wealth and unsustainable consumption. As Voltaire wrote hundreds of years ago: “The wealth of the rich is […]