{"id":1388,"date":"2004-08-28T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/28\/wherein-the-author-steals-a-bit-of-text-found-in-a-magazine-at-the-local-barnes-noble\/"},"modified":"2004-08-28T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T19:24:00","slug":"wherein-the-author-steals-a-bit-of-text-found-in-a-magazine-at-the-local-barnes-noble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/wherein-the-author-steals-a-bit-of-text-found-in-a-magazine-at-the-local-barnes-noble\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein the author steals a bit of text found in a magazine at the local Barnes &#038; Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this bit of essay in Adbusters.  I felt a need to share it&#8230;  so here it is.<\/p>\n<p>This, finally, is the punch line of our two hundred years on the Great Plains: we trap out the beaver, subtract the Mandan, infect the Blackfeet and the Hidatsa and the Assiniboin, overdose the Arikara; call the land a desert and hurry across it to get to California and Oregon; suck up the buffalo, bones and all; kill off nations of elk and wolves and cranes and prairie chickens and prairie dogs; dig up the gold and rebury it in vaults someplace else; ruin the Sioux and Cheyenne and Arapaho and Crow and Kiowa and Commanche; kill Crazy Horse, kill Sitting Bull; harvest wave after wave of immigrants&#8217; dreams and send the wised-up dreamers on their way; plow the topsoil until it blows to the ocean; ship out the wheat, ship out the cattle; dig up the earth itself and burn it in power plants and send the power down the line; dismiss the small farmers, empty the little towns; drill the oil and the natural gas and pipe it away; dry up the rivers and the springs, deep-drill for irrigation water as the aquifier retreats. And in return we condense unimaginable amounts of treasure into weapons buried beneath the land that so much treasure came from &#8211; weapons for which our best hope might be that we will someday take them apart and throw them away, and for which our next-best hope certainly is that they remain humming away under the prairie, absorbing fear and maintenance, unused, forever.<\/p>\n<p>-Ian Frazier, <i>Great Plains<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this bit of essay in Adbusters. I felt a need to share it&#8230; so here it is. This, finally, is the punch line of our two hundred years on the Great Plains: we trap out the beaver, subtract the Mandan, infect the Blackfeet and the Hidatsa and the Assiniboin, overdose the Arikara; call&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}