Deep Thoughts on the RIPTA bus

Being a RIPTA regular -even proud of my monthly bus pass - I

    expect to overhear nothing but the most brainless conversation - no

    insult to proles ( it's just the CULTURE , stupid ) . But  the Sunday

    trip - which begins at the NUT HOUSE ( to be very politically incorrect)

    and ends  in downtown Providence - was a cerebral surprise: The blue

    collar bus driver - who sounded like  Archie Bunker - suddenly and

    incongruously disputed the meaning of that buzz word FREEDOM  with a

    passenger who sounded more like an Ann Rand crank than a crazed LIBERAL.

                   The bus driver thought that billions and billions of

    dollars spent on the military was well spent - " the price of freedom ".

                The crank pointed out that if we were truly FREE we would

    not have those odious social security numbers - that TELL ALL about us

    to a sinister BIG BROTHER.

                  I can only conclude that the major political parties just

    don't get it. In fact, I don't get it myself. I find solace only in

    horror fiction lately. Just re-read " The Outsider " by Providence's

    very own H.P. Lovecraft. I suspect that " Grandpa " would have found

    lots of inspiration on a RIPTA bus !