INCEPTION
I just saw the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar; despite some shortcomings, I liked it quite a bit more than Inception (2010). Many people might not realize that those horrendous dust storms heralding the eclipse of Earth as a habitable planet occurred in real life in the U. S. Midwest during the 1930’s. As if the Great Depression weren’t enough misery, a combination of severe drought and ignorant agricultural methods ruined the rich farmland in the Heartland for years at a time. As a native of Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie naturally identified with the thousands of “Okies” set adrift during the “Dust Bowl” period.
(March 2015)
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