There is a quiet tax now, and it does not arrive in the mail. No government votes on it. No minister announces it. No one even has the honesty to call it what it is. It is the tax on being alone.
Not solitude in the poetic sense. Not the noble retreat of monks, writers, or the occasional sane person hiding from the species. I mean ordinary modern singleness: paying … Read the rest
by Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ This is written in response to Mr. Anderson’s most recent eruption, which is called “Goddamn Millennials”. For reasons I am not sure of, I – as the designated Baby Boomer – am cast as the smug and ornately slippered villain tucked away safely in some state-of-the-architectural- art-suburban castle gazing from lofty windows and out beyond the Security Gates, glass of Jack Daniels in hand … Read the rest
