\u201cANDR\u00c9: \u2026 And when I was at Findhorn I met this extraordinary English tree expert who had devoted himself to saving trees, and he\u2019d just got back from Washington lobbying to save the Redwoods. And he was eighty-four years old, and he always travels with a backpack because he never knows where he\u2019s going to be tomorrow. And when I met him at Findhorn he said to me, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d And I said, \u201cNew York.\u201d And he said, \u201cAh, New York, yes, that\u2019s a very interesting place. Do you know a lot of New Yorkers who keep talking about the fact that they want to leave, but never do?\u201d And I said, \u201cOh, yes.\u201d And he said, \u201cWhy do you think they don\u2019t leave?\u201d And I gave him different banal theories. And he said, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that way at all.\u201d He said, \u201cI think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing that they\u2019ve built\u2014they\u2019ve built their own prison\u2014and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result they no longer have\u2014having been lobotomized\u2014the capacity to leave the prison they\u2019ve made or even to see it as a prison.\u201d And then he went into his pocket, and he took out a seed for a tree, and he said, \u201cThis is a pine tree.\u201d And he put it in my hand. And he said, \u201cEscape before it\u2019s too late.\u201d \u2014 Wallace Shawn\/ My Dinner With Andr\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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