Well, to be correct, Grapes of Wrath is a work by John Steinbeck, not Twain.It describes the lives of the white emigrants from the Midwest during the Dust Bowl period of the 1920s/30s, and is considered an American classic in literature.
'83 doesnt have any particular year connotation.However, one might interpret the line as an American farmer speaking to his son about how their way of life- farming food on individual farm lots with crop diversity and a local market system for a farmer to sell at his own prices. Today's version of modern farming, with few exceptions, is dominated by industrial efforts based on large scale machinery and monoculture crops, in which the farmer is constantly in debt in order to pay off the loaning corporations for the equipment they help provide.
Remember biofuels and monoculture is not an American entity alone...it is happening globally. Palm oil in Indonesia, soybeans in Brazil, rice in India and China, coffee in South America.....monoculture has taken firm root worldwide.
That being said, "destitute and free" may represent the future of America if we fail to recognize our errings....broke from resource wars, our soils eroded from our foolish ways of production, but still touting our freedom....
Well, to be correct, Grapes of Wrath is a work by John Steinbeck, not Twain.It describes the lives of the white emigrants from the Midwest during the Dust Bowl period of the 1920s/30s, and is considered an American classic in literature.
'83 doesnt have any particular year connotation.However, one might interpret the line as an American farmer speaking to his son about how their way of life- farming food on individual farm lots with crop diversity and a local market system for a farmer to sell at his own prices. Today's version of modern farming, with few exceptions, is dominated by industrial efforts based on large scale machinery and monoculture crops, in which the farmer is constantly in debt in order to pay off the loaning corporations for the equipment they help provide.
Remember biofuels and monoculture is not an American entity alone...it is happening globally. Palm oil in Indonesia, soybeans in Brazil, rice in India and China, coffee in South America.....monoculture has taken firm root worldwide.
That being said, "destitute and free" may represent the future of America if we fail to recognize our errings....broke from resource wars, our soils eroded from our foolish ways of production, but still touting our freedom....