MHP: There’s a qualitative difference in the type of change that’s occurring now. It’s not organic growth, what we’re seeing. We’re seeing a shift—or maybe the fruits of capitalism run amok—where basically anything and everything is for sale. It doesn’t need to benefit anybody else other than the developer. He’s not accountable to anybody. He can go and wreck a landscape that belongs to all of us. But it’s meaningful to all of us, as well as to the rest of nature. And he can walk away from it. He can do that and walk away. We’ve created a system where this is perfectly OK to do—and in fact, it’s lauded, even.

She makes a very good point. People are not considering anything else but themselves now-a-days. People only care about themselves and what will benefit them. If selling something or wrecking something that would really help everyone out in the end doesnt matter anymore if it is beneficial for one person. So if tearing down a neighborhood to build a shopping mall is beneficial for that one person, people will do it. I dont think that is fair at all for anyone.

MHP: If we didn’t love things, then we couldn’t feel their loss.

Also a very good point she makes. If you have no real connection with something and someone takes it away from you then it shouldnt affect you in the long run. But, that doesnt mean people should stop caring about things because they know they will be lost at some point which i feel alot of people are doing today too. People know things will be taken away from them or lost so they dont care even though they should.

MHP: I know! When I go home to suburban Ohio, I see these big trucks parked in front of people’s houses that say ChemLawn. Who wants a ChemLawn? I guess there are people out there who actually want a ChemLawn. This is what makes me—I mean, I know I’m out of step with the rest of America. I feel that all the time. I felt that during the last election. We were all on the floor screaming in agony.

I dont know what a ChemLawn is so i asked my friend and he said he sees them everywhere too. His comment was "yea they have a dalmation of the truck, i see them everywhere!" I still dont get why she would add this in her interview it doesnt really make sense.

In this interview it explains alot and explains how she felt when she wrote her books. I thought it was very intersting reading this and gives me a better sense on what she fealt and meant in alot of her writing. I also now know that nostalgia is definiatly not a bad thing. In fact it is a very good thing in helping you cope with things.