The Gentle Hippies versus The Evil Capitalists
In Stephen King’s The Stand
The good guys are in beautiful Boulder, surrounded by mountains and streams, Rocky Mountain National Park and the University of Boulder. The bad guys are in Las Vegas, home of lights and luxury, money and industry, a place where nature is tamed, desert turned to oasis and rivers turned to energy.
What do you think that’s about? Is this thinly veiled propaganda? Is there a judgment here? I can see why Las Vegas would bear the bad guys. I mean lots of folks have trouble with gambling and gangsters. But did he have to choose a hippie haven to house the good? Not that there’s anything wrong with hippies. I just think it’s a little strange that good and evil seem to swivel the same way as bipartisan politics.
Not that I care about politics. I’m just saying…