Feudalism Returns

    "Everywhere you go . . . . in every town and city, the biggest, newest, most expensive and pretentious buildings are the banks: sure sign of social decay. . . . 

    "The working people live in plasterboard boxes, in fiberboard apartments, in mobile homes of tin, aluminum, and plastic; but the banks rise up in gleaming stone and glass and steel, dominating the surrounding mass of huddled hovels precisely as the medieval lord's castle brooded above his vassal village."

--------Edward Abbey, The Journey Home, 1977