"What does it mean to belong? If your town is changing beyond all recognition, and the things that you used--not only as a sort of physical landscape but as a moral landscape--are disappearing, are crumbling, are being passed-by by the new people who have come to the town, then what does it mean to belong? Do you belong there anymore? Do you belong somewhere else? Or do you belong anywhere? Do you belong in the past? What's in the future for you?"
--Billy Bragg, discussing England's white middle class and the upcoming theater performance "Pressure Drop".
More than anything this excerpt makes me think of Seattle in the late 1990's. Where do I belong? Not there; not anymore.
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