Mouse's Ear Memoirs: Conclusion

I thought the Mouse's Ear Memoirs conclusion post would be more profound. Now that we've reached the end, I am just happy the series is over with. I didn't mean for it to drag on for two years. There isn't much for me to say about Mouse's Ear and Knoxville that I haven't already expressed over the past two years.

Americans in Appalachia won the American Revolution by being a fiercely independent rag-tag team of guerrilla fighters, and for that they should be proud. I think it's sad that so many of their descendants are dependent on SSRIs, unhealthy foods, and anti-union corporate propaganda. Whatever independent team spirit that was used two hundred years ago is no longer effective now. It has been hijacked to make many Tennesseans think they're better off as fake “independent contractors,” in a variety of fields. Hopefully some day that changes.