Still pissed off September 15, 1985
The more I read about the Great Passaic Fire, the scarier it gets as if Mayor Lapari deliberately let this part of the city burn to make way for his condos and his shopping mall. There’s almost nothing we can do about it short of an armed insurrection. This, after all, was our reform mayor. This is a mayor who got caught red handed taking money from HUD for his car. Now, after the disaster, after the industrial base of the city burned, he even wants a raise. I’ve gotten so paranoid I see everything as a plot, him, Reagan, even the bullshit at Fotomat, some evil conspiracy behind everything, planning everything, making things rotten with remarkable precision. But there is no conspiracy. That would make life far too simple, allowing us to pin blame of one specific thing, a new Satan or his followers upon whom we can lay responsibility for all the world’s troubles. We could go on living our lives saying ourselves that “it’s that clown’s fault.” Many people have done this...