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When I first moved to America I loved seeing all the flashy Americana things. Iconic signs. Iconic buildings. Iconic USPS vans. Iconic fast food. Things I only ever saw in movies. Every drive and walk, head on a swivel.

Then one day I decided to walk the streets of what felt like the Shadow of LA. The remnants of American dreams gone awry. An abandoned building in a deserted mall with "Bank of Hope" on it. Railroads to nowhere. Other sad things.

I love this about America. Its might and its variance. Its freedom and its dark side. It is a grand experiment in how to live with certain unalienable rights - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is a grand experiment in what humanity is capable of with incentives aligned with self-interest broadly defined.

Anyway, here's a random quote:

"Unfortunately there is no doubt about that fact that man is, as a whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's concsious life, the blacker and denser it is." - Carl Jung