Look, I'm not a culture snob. I appreciate all types of different culture that we have here in America from Americana to the hip, urban place where I live now. It's all interesting in its own way and shows the diversity that is one of our country's strengths.
But, this weekend, I gazed into one of its glaring warts: Pidgeon Forge, Tenn.
I was in town to do a wedding for one of my best friends. The wedding was fantastic, good friends, old and new, bride was beautiful, groom, well, looked great, everyone cried. And the minister was, well, I was.
Anyway, Pigeon Forge is, as my wife likes to say, craptacular. No, more than craptacular. Supersized craptacular. Horrible looking theaters. Horrible looking shops. All spread out over a four miles strip with no reason, no zoning or even worse in my mind, working with the natural beauty of the Smokey Mountains. It is a perfect picture of what happens when capatalism runs amuck. As I have said, I'm no socialist, but, Pigeon Forge left me wondering....
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