Egyptland: "Stabler has asked me by email if I had any thoughts on this Egypt of ours. Interesting choice of phrase, I thought: 'this Egypt of ours.' Do we own it and have we broken it? Or could he be referring to the larger, deeper, more nebulous and all-pervading 'Egypt' that people as diverse as Jesus of Nazareth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Smith, Henry David Thoreau, Paul Gauguin, Bob Marley and William Cooper had issues with?
From my position as an boring old fart in roughly the same demographic layer as the Hitch Brothers, I think Richard Thompson put it best around 20 years ago. While the optimists were celebrating the death of communism and the end of history and the upwardly mobile were busy climbing as high as as they could go up the ziggurat, Richard the strolling minstrel was telling it like it looks to the folks condemned to live at the base pyramid.
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