I grew up in the Midwest, and never really Left It.

When you spend the first 20 years of your life somewhere, you never really leave there. And for me, that place was the intersection of the states of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. As Midwestern a place as you could possibly get.

A place with little culture of its own. And little awareness of this lack of culture. My family thought this lack was natural, and thought nothing of it. It was part of their RLDS church, that was an integral part of them.

In the last half of the last Century, this isolation was ended by the Television, that intruded itself into every home. And which people could not help, but watch. And then the Computer, that most people thought of, as a new kind of TV.