REGINA Magazine 29 | Page 62

Milk, honey, cheeseburgers and oxycontin

By outward standards, the modern Western World is a paradise, though the pastoral beauty of Arcadia is long gone. Milk and honey flow alongside cheeseburgers and oxycontin.

We have at our disposal unlimited pleasures; food, wine, sex, drugs, all the depraved fantasies of a Roman Emperor.

Death had been allowed to slip from our minds, a fatality of

new medicines and

increased hygiene.

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