Before picking the sweet corn today I glanced at the local paper. This edition carried more than its share of reports (without useful context of course) indicating the increasingly down-scale nature of existence in Maine and these United States–for those outside what John Kenneth Galbraith once called “The Fortunate Fifth” of the population. More

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