The Broken Thread of Culture

There are times when the de-industrial future seems to whisper in the night like a wind blowing through the trees, sending the easy certainties of the present spinning like dead leaves. I had one of those moments recently, courtesy of a news story from 1997 (http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1997-06-05/news/myths-over-miami/) that a reader forwarded me, about the spread of secret stories among homeless children in Florida’s Dade County. These aren’t your ordinary children’s stories: they’re myths in the making, a bricolage of images from popular religion and folklore torn from their original contexts and pressed into the service of a harsh new vision of reality.


God, according to Dade County’s homeless children, is missing in action; demons stormed Heaven a while back and God hasn’t been seen since.

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-broken-thread-of-culture.html