This article about Shakespeare's criminal connections, combined with my knowledge of how much low-class vulgarity is in his plays, made me imagine a future civilization that considers gangsta rap the epitome of civilized refinement, the way we treat opera and Shakespeare plays. It is also easy to imagine our current inner-city gangsters being romanticized the same way our society romanticizes pirates.
On a happier note, this article about Hispanic immigrants revitalizing dying Midwest towns shows how entrepreneurial people can respond to incentives in such a way that society is improved. One person's dying small town is another person's chance to buy a good, cheap house and start a better life:
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gangsta vs. pirate vs. ninja... well that's a whole new can of worms.
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