Vegas, Hollywood, and Bethlehemy – LewRockwell

Tim McGraw wrote:

Hi Lew,

I’ve been to Las Vegas dozens of times, to Hollywood four times, and once, for six months to Belem, Brazil (which is named after Bethlehem), in the Amazon River delta. What truths did I find?

In Las Vegas, I found the most Libertarian city in the USA, if not the world. Anything goes in Vegas. It’s a fantasy city in the middle of the desert that relies on Hoover Dam and Lake Mead for its existence.

Hollywood is another fantasy city in a desert that also relies on water from elsewhere, like Las Vegas. Los Angeles, to me, is the most interesting city in the world.

Belem is reality. The equatorial sun, rain forest, heat and humidity, disease, poisonous this and that, nothing is man’s friend in Belem except man (they don’t even have dogs or cats).

Belem is the truth.