Despite the mostly laid-back weather, and the generally laid-back people, Eugene and Springfield are driving me bonkers.
My undoing has a lot to do with the clanging cognitive dissonance that often lives amongst us. You know, the ever-present conflict between what is proclaimed, and what is actually done.
Most people have good hearts here and support multiple causes for human betterment. And who doesn’t live in a neighborhood of yard signs declaring, “We believe in science!” and “Love is love”? Very cool, but what do these signs really do for science, or love?…