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Postcard from the End of America: Callowhill, Philadelphia

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Turning to the slim, blonde, 35-year-old bartender with thick, stuck-on eyelashes, Rick petitioned, "Erin, will you take care of Steve for me? My mouth is full," then he went back to scratching lottery tickets, on which he spends between 40 to 50 bucks a day. Each time Rick lost, he'd curse and toss the ticket onto the floor, behind the bar, for Erin to dispose of.

Nodding at me, Rick grinningly asked Erin, "Have you ever blown a Chinese guy?"

Flattering her, he then said, "Will you wipe your ass with this dollar and give it back to me?"

That kind of bantering, you won't find at Love City, that's for sure.

The title of my slide talk is "The Future is Asia." Its main point, I have discussed in various essays, and it's basically this: Nations that stress linguistic, cultural and/or ethnic unity will outlast those that don't. Further, nations that shun their own heritage are as good as dead. For years, I have also stressed that the United States is ruled by a rootless, criminal cabal, and for pointing out something so obvious, I have had countless slurs hurled at me.

Whatever, man, I'm tired. As this ship sinks, wave that flag and snipe away!

Mellowed, I walk to my talk venue. A progressive institution, it no longer has men's and women's rooms, but two "All Gender" bathrooms, with only individual stalls, so that a 13-year-old girl, say, may find herself right next to me. As we do our business, we'd only be separated by a partition a good foot off the floor.

In Vietnam, they would find such an arrangement insane and felonious, but then it's not as advanced as the US of A. The transgender spiel is a part of the campaign against masculinity. Castration is in.

As a toxic model, this criminal, decadent and deeply-confused nation can't collapse soon enough. Americans, too, need a fresh start, though they may have to cease calling themselves American. It won't matter much. It already doesn't.


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Linh Dinh's Postcards from the End of America has just been published by Seven Stories Press. Tracking our deteriorating socialscape, he maintains a photo blog.


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